Posts by Newsmaker

AP Analysis: Blacks Largely Missing From High-Salary Positions

AP Analysis: Blacks Largely Missing From High-Salary Positions

Jonathan Garland’s fascination with architecture started early: He spent much of his childhood designing Lego houses and gazing at Boston...

These Burgers Are Better for the Planet, but You’d Never Know It

These Burgers Are Better for the Planet, but You’d Never Know It

As the world’s population heads toward 10 billion by midcentury, experts are wrestling with how to feed the world without...

Traditional Pakistani Bamboo Curtains Gaining Popularity

Traditional Pakistani Bamboo Curtains Gaining Popularity

Traditional handicrafts from Pakistan are exported to many countries around the world. One item that appears to be gaining in...

NY’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers Despair as Taxi Industry Slumps

NY’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers Despair as Taxi Industry Slumps

A financially distraught yellow cab driver from Romania recently hanged himself in his New York garage, marking the fourth suicide...

Could Enemies Target Undersea Cables That Link the World?

Could Enemies Target Undersea Cables That Link the World?

Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be...

Facebook ‘Ugly Truth’ Memo Triggers New Firestorm Over Ethics

Facebook ‘Ugly Truth’ Memo Triggers New Firestorm Over Ethics

Was a leaked internal Facebook memo aimed at justifying the social network’s growth-at-any-cost strategy? Or simply a way to open...

South Sudan Dispute With Mobile Firm Disrupts Service

South Sudan Dispute With Mobile Firm Disrupts Service

Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese remained without mobile phone service Friday, as network operator Vivacell continued a standoff with...

Amid Flood of Chinese Products, India Wants Fairness

Amid Flood of Chinese Products, India Wants Fairness

Sampad Yadav, who sells electrical goods in a shop in the business hub of Gurugram on the outskirts of New...

Vietnam Stands to See Modest Wins if China, U.S. Start Trade War

Vietnam Stands to See Modest Wins if China, U.S. Start Trade War

A wider Sino-U.S. trade dispute would help export-reliant Vietnam compete against Chinese companies but put the country at risk of...

Rivers and Tides Can Provide Affordable Power

Rivers and Tides Can Provide Affordable Power

While wind turbines and solar cells generate power only when there is wind and sun, most rivers always flow and...

NY Auto Show Features Electric, Self-Driving Cars

NY Auto Show Features Electric, Self-Driving Cars

A recent fatality involving one of Uber’s self-driving cars may have created uncertainty and doubt regarding the future of autonomous...

Tech Giants Tackle Online Wildlife Trafficking

Tech Giants Tackle Online Wildlife Trafficking

A new coalition of tech giants and conservationists is looking to drastically reduce the amount of wild, and often endangered,...

Ads Pulled from Ingraham Show After She Mocked Parkland Survivor

Ads Pulled from Ingraham Show After She Mocked Parkland Survivor

At least three companies said Thursday they were pulling advertisements from a Fox News show hosted by conservative pundit Laura...

New York Offers Free Cybersecurity Tools to Public to Deter Hackers

New York Offers Free Cybersecurity Tools to Public to Deter Hackers

New York City will offer free cybersecurity tools to the public as part of a new effort to improve online...

In Cuba, Vietnam Communist Party Chief Advocates Economic Reforms

In Cuba, Vietnam Communist Party Chief Advocates Economic Reforms

The head of Vietnam’s Communist Party advocated for the importance of market-oriented economic reforms on a two-day visit to old...

Utility Plans to Close Nuclear Plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania

Utility Plans to Close Nuclear Plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania

FirstEnergy Corp. said it will shut down three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania within the next three years, making...

Facebook Says It’s Making Progress in Election Preparedness

Facebook Says It’s Making Progress in Election Preparedness

Facebook says it is making progress weeding out fake accounts and fake news on its service. The moves are aimed...

Uber Avoids Legal Battle With Family of Self-Driving Vehicle Victim

Uber Avoids Legal Battle With Family of Self-Driving Vehicle Victim

The family of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with...

US, Canada Differ on Quick NAFTA Resolution

US, Canada Differ on Quick NAFTA Resolution

The Trump administration is hopeful it can reach a deal on a new North American Free Trade Agreement before the...

Entrepreneur: ‘Anyone Can Play a Role’ in African Innovation

Entrepreneur: ‘Anyone Can Play a Role’ in African Innovation

While working for a big consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria, Afua Osei repeatedly encountered women who wanted to advance professionally...

Adobe New Service Aims to Follow Users Across Multiple Devices

Adobe New Service Aims to Follow Users Across Multiple Devices

Visiting Subway’s website on a personal computer might not seem to have anything to do with checking the NFL’s app...

3 Facebook Messenger App Users File Lawsuit Over Privacy

3 Facebook Messenger App Users File Lawsuit Over Privacy

Three Facebook Messenger app users have filed a lawsuit claiming the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of...