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US to Unveil Streamlined Autonomous Vehicle Guidelines

US to Unveil Streamlined Autonomous Vehicle Guidelines

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao will unveil on Tuesday streamlined safety guidelines for automakers that want to deploy self-driving vehicles,...

Apple May Test Bounds of iPhone Love with $1,000 Model

Apple May Test Bounds of iPhone Love with $1,000 Model

Apple is expected to sell its fanciest iPhone yet for $1,000, crossing into a new financial frontier that will test...

Brazil Businessman Turns Himself into Police in Graft Probe

Brazil Businessman Turns Himself into Police in Graft Probe

The former chairman of the world’s largest meatpacker, whose testimony implicated Brazil’s president in corruption, turned himself in to police...

Apple to Unveil New iPhone

Apple to Unveil New iPhone

It’s been only 10 years since Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone. Since then, the competition with...

DACA Repeal Could Cost US Businesses, Economy Billions

DACA Repeal Could Cost US Businesses, Economy Billions

The White House’s decision this week to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), carries enormous repercussions for the...

DACA Repeal to Cost U.S. Businesses, Economy Billions

DACA Repeal to Cost U.S. Businesses, Economy Billions

The White House’s decision to repeal DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, carries enormous repercussions for the nearly 800,000...

Digital Photographs Can Steal Fingerprints

Digital Photographs Can Steal Fingerprints

We know that fingerprints can be lifted off various surfaces. But now technology is available to steal fingerprints from a...

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Could Shave Up to 1 Percent From US GDP in 3rd Quarter

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Could Shave Up to 1 Percent From US GDP in 3rd Quarter

Two back-to-back storms will have a significant impact on U.S. growth and productivity, according to economists tracking the impact of...

Equifax Faces Lawsuits, Investigations After Major Data Breach

Equifax Faces Lawsuits, Investigations After Major Data Breach

The U.S. credit monitoring company Equifax is facing a storm of criticism, lawsuits and investigations after a data breach that...

Apple Embarks on Emmy Quest With Big Bet on Video Streaming

Apple Embarks on Emmy Quest With Big Bet on Video Streaming

Television is one of the few screens that has Apple hasn’t conquered, but that may soon change. The world’s richest...

Rwanda’s Largest Solar Field Also Empowers Orphans

Rwanda’s Largest Solar Field Also Empowers Orphans

In Rwanda, less than 15 percent of the population has access to electricity. In rural areas, it can be as...

World’s First Biodegradable Car Designed

World’s First Biodegradable Car Designed

There are smart cars, hybrid cars, electric cars, and now a biodegradable car. A group of technology students has built...

Equifax: Cyberattack Could Affect 143M Americans

Equifax: Cyberattack Could Affect 143M Americans

About 143 million Americans could be affected by a cyberattack on the credit monitoring company Equifax. The Atlanta-based company said...

BMW Gears Up to Mass Produce Electric Cars by 2020

BMW Gears Up to Mass Produce Electric Cars by 2020

Germany’s BMW is gearing up to mass produce electric cars by 2020 and will to have 12 different models by...

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Get Their News from Social Media

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Get Their News from Social Media

A full 67 percent of Americans now report receiving at least a portion of their news from social media, according...

Dry Jordan Launches Project to Grow Crops From Seawater

Dry Jordan Launches Project to Grow Crops From Seawater

Water-poor Jordan on Thursday launched a project using seawater to produce crops with clean energy.   Jordan’s King Abdullah II...

Space Business Booming in Cape Canaveral

Space Business Booming in Cape Canaveral

After the last space shuttle mission ended, in July 2011, the activity at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,...

House of Representatives Passes Bill on Self-Driving Vehicles

House of Representatives Passes Bill on Self-Driving Vehicles

U.S. congressmen have approved a bill to deploy self-driving cars and prevent states from blocking them. The U.S. House of...

Waste Not: Belgian Startup to Print 3-D Recycled Sunglasses

Waste Not: Belgian Startup to Print 3-D Recycled Sunglasses

A Belgium-based start-up is on its way to making the world a bit sunnier, by printing the first 3-D sunglasses...

New Rockets Could Inspire Next Generation

New Rockets Could Inspire Next Generation

Rockets that will take Americans back to space from U.S. soil for the first time since the retirement of the...

Chinese Investment Welcomed in Small Arkansas Town

Chinese Investment Welcomed in Small Arkansas Town

One of China’s biggest textile mills is planning its first North American factory in a small town in the southern...

40 Years After Launch Voyager 1 Still Sending Data

40 Years After Launch Voyager 1 Still Sending Data

Forty years ago, as President Carter was spending his first year in office, NASA launched two spacecraft hoping to learn...