Posts by Newsmaker

US Senate Poised to Ease Dodd-Frank Rules for Most Banks

US Senate Poised to Ease Dodd-Frank Rules for Most Banks

Ten years after a financial crisis rocked the nation’s economy, the Senate is poised to pass legislation that would roll...

To Engage Customers, Smart Mirrors Take Cues from Social Media

To Engage Customers, Smart Mirrors Take Cues from Social Media

Call it the Snapchat effect. Some high-tech mirrors out there are borrowing from the social media giant, which offers face...

AI Has a Dirty Little Secret: It’s Powered by People

AI Has a Dirty Little Secret: It’s Powered by People

There’s a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It’s powered by an army of real people. From makeup artists in...

Applications for Facial Recognition Increase as Technology Matures

Applications for Facial Recognition Increase as Technology Matures

From a shopping center and an airport to a concert venue or even your own phone, these are all places...

Washington Braces for Possible Trump-Induced Trade War

Washington Braces for Possible Trump-Induced Trade War

Washington is bracing for the start of a possible trade war between the United States and its closest allies and...

China Doesn’t Want Trade War, but Says It Will Respond if Necessary

China Doesn’t Want Trade War, but Says It Will Respond if Necessary

China has added its voice to a growing chorus of concern about the rising threat of a trade war and...

EU Aims to Tax Internet Giants at ‘Two to Six Percent’: France

EU Aims to Tax Internet Giants at ‘Two to Six Percent’: France

The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy...

Students Build Program That Sniffs Out Twitter ‘Bots’

Students Build Program That Sniffs Out Twitter ‘Bots’

For months, university students Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte had been tracking about 1,500 political propaganda accounts on Twitter that...

Students Create Program to Identify Fake Twitter Accounts

Students Create Program to Identify Fake Twitter Accounts

Social media users like to have friends and followers on various platforms. But how many accounts are real and how...

Trump Threatens to Tax European-built Cars as Trade War Rhetoric Builds

Trump Threatens to Tax European-built Cars as Trade War Rhetoric Builds

President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to impose a tax on European cars if the European Union chooses to retaliate...

Hoping to Raise Real Cash, Marshall Islands Creates Virtual Money

Hoping to Raise Real Cash, Marshall Islands Creates Virtual Money

The tiny Marshall Islands is creating its own digital currency in order to raise some hard cash to pay bills...

AP Fact Check: Is a Trade War ‘Easy to Win?’

AP Fact Check: Is a Trade War ‘Easy to Win?’

In agitating for a trade war, President Donald Trump may have forgotten William Tecumseh Sherman’s adage that “war is hell.”...

China Joins Chorus, Warns of ‘Huge Impact’ of Trump’s Tariff Plan 

China Joins Chorus, Warns of ‘Huge Impact’ of Trump’s Tariff Plan 

China has warned about the “huge impact” on global trading, if U.S. President Donald Trump proceeds with his plans to...

Launch of Innovative Satellite Opens New Window for Meteorologists

Launch of Innovative Satellite Opens New Window for Meteorologists

“A game-changer for weather forecasts.” That’s what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA are calling the just-launched GOES-S...

Canada, Europe, WTO React Negatively to Trump’s Threats on Steel, Aluminum Imports

Canada, Europe, WTO React Negatively to Trump’s Threats on Steel, Aluminum Imports

“Absolutely unacceptable” were the words Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used to describe U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that he...

Questions Surround Trump’s First Border Wall Contract

Questions Surround Trump’s First Border Wall Contract

A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a...

Vero a Hot Instagram Alternative, but Will It Last?

Vero a Hot Instagram Alternative, but Will It Last?

Instagram users fed up with the service becoming more and more like Facebook are flocking to a hot new app...

Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Spark Fears of Trade War, Price Hikes

Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Spark Fears of Trade War, Price Hikes

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports sparked concerns of a trade war...

Egyptian Teen Offers Hope to Disabled With New Exoskeleton

Egyptian Teen Offers Hope to Disabled With New Exoskeleton

An Egyptian teenager has turned cables and sheets of aluminum and metal into a robotic exoskeleton that he says can...

Another Flying Car Soon to Make Its Debut

Another Flying Car Soon to Make Its Debut

Forget self-driving cars! Imagine a future filled with flying cars. The latest design comes from the Netherlands, where a company...

Refugee Women Get a Taste of Entrepreneurship    

Refugee Women Get a Taste of Entrepreneurship    

When refugees arrive in a new country, they bring little to no material possessions. But many bring something more valuable:...

Facebook Ends Six-Country Test of Two Separate News Feeds

Facebook Ends Six-Country Test of Two Separate News Feeds

Facebook Inc on Thursday put an end to a test of splitting its signature News Feed into two, an idea...