Posts by Newsmaker

Mozambique Takes Legal Action Over $2 Billion Loans

Mozambique Takes Legal Action Over $2 Billion Loans

Mozambique’s Attorney General has filed a legal complaint against officials and state-owned companies involved in securing $2 billion in loans...

Experts: Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ Will Bring Strain as Well as Gain to Winning City

Experts: Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ Will Bring Strain as Well as Gain to Winning City

As the 20 shortlisted cities vying to host Amazon.com’s second North American headquarters hone their bids to attract thousands of...

Delivery Robots Find Work in Hotels, Hospitals and Beyond

Delivery Robots Find Work in Hotels, Hospitals and Beyond

Coming to a hotel or hospital near you may be a robot that makes deliveries.  Companies are creating robots to...

Map of GPS Fitness Activity Sparks Military Security Concerns

Map of GPS Fitness Activity Sparks Military Security Concerns

The U.S. military says it is evaluating its policies after a global map of fitness activity drew attention to possible...

New York to Probe Firms that Sells Fake Social Media Followers

New York to Probe Firms that Sells Fake Social Media Followers

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation of a firm that allegedly sold millions of fake...

IKEA Furniture Magnate Ingvar Kamprad Dies at 91

IKEA Furniture Magnate Ingvar Kamprad Dies at 91

Ingvar Kamprad, who founded Sweden’s IKEA furniture brand and transformed it into a worldwide business empire, has died at the...

Mumbai’s Dharavi Breaks Stereotypes of Slum for Foreign Tourists

Mumbai’s Dharavi Breaks Stereotypes of Slum for Foreign Tourists

Why has Mumbai’s largest slum, which packs some one million people in about two square kilometers, emerged as an unlikely...

Trump Lauds US Economic Performance

Trump Lauds US Economic Performance

U.S. President Donald Trump touted the continued growth of the U.S. economy on Sunday, saying it is “better than it...

Scientists Create a New Type of Hologram

Scientists Create a New Type of Hologram

Projecting three-dimensional (3D) images in thin air, called holography, moved from science fiction to reality a long time ago. But...

Using Technology to Teach Not Distract

Using Technology to Teach Not Distract

Incorporating technology into learning can sometimes be a slippery slope toward computer distraction. That’s why some of the best new...

Coincheck to Return $425M in Virtual Money Lost to Hackers

Coincheck to Return $425M in Virtual Money Lost to Hackers

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc said Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money...

EPA Puts Brakes on Approval Process for Gold, Copper Mine

EPA Puts Brakes on Approval Process for Gold, Copper Mine

In a surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself Friday and stopped the approval process for the proposed...

Pacific Trade Deal Will Move Forward Without the US

Pacific Trade Deal Will Move Forward Without the US

President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy on trade aims to reverse decades of lopsided exchange by withdrawing from international trade...

Enthusiast Builds a Steam-powered SUV

Enthusiast Builds a Steam-powered SUV

Although long replaced by more efficient types of engines, steam-powered machines still have a certain appeal, and not just for...

Alaska Delegation Wants Some Waters Out of Drilling Plan

Alaska Delegation Wants Some Waters Out of Drilling Plan

Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation three weeks ago praised Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke after he announced nearly all federal waters off...

Trump Warns Rivals About Trade Practices in Davos Speech

Trump Warns Rivals About Trade Practices in Davos Speech

President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will no longer tolerate unfair trade practices and will always put...

Tokyo-based Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked, $530 Million Lost

Tokyo-based Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked, $530 Million Lost

Coincheck, a major cryptocurrency trading exchange in Tokyo, has been hacked into and has lost about $534 million worth of...

Analysts Skeptical of China’s Boast on Industrial Performance

Analysts Skeptical of China’s Boast on Industrial Performance

The Chinese government recently claimed that 98 major state-run industries have turned in the best industrial and financial performance in...

A Cheap Test for Potable Water

A Cheap Test for Potable Water

According to the World Health Organization, 2.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. Many of them...

Despite Sanctions, N. Korea Reportedly Exported Coal to S. Korea,  Japan via Russia

Despite Sanctions, N. Korea Reportedly Exported Coal to S. Korea,  Japan via Russia

North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year which was then delivered to South Korea and Japan in a likely...

Nutella Riots Spread Across France

Nutella Riots Spread Across France

Grocery shopping went a little nuts in France when a supermarket chain deeply discounted jars of Nutella. Aficionados of the...

Melinda Gates Launches Initiative to Reduce Poverty With New Technology

Melinda Gates Launches Initiative to Reduce Poverty With New Technology

Melinda Gates has launched a high-level international commission to spark new thinking on how developing countries can best harness new...