Falling Cocoa Prices Hit African Farmers
The large drop in global cocoa prices has hurt African farmers, leading some to abandon their plantations. In Cameroon, however,...
Fighting an Ocean of Plastic With a Plucky Pump
The results of three recent separate studies are staggering, the oceans are filled with about 5 trillion bits and bobs...
From Grey to Green: Smokestack Cities Power to Bright Future
Bicycle highways, urban farms and local energy hubs — just some of the ways that yesterday’s smokestack cities are turning...
Frog-count App Aims for Deep Dive into Australia’s Population
An Australian museum has teamed up with computer giant International Business Machines to count the country’s native frog population, and...
Bloomberg Gives $50 Million to Aid Shift from Coal Worldwide
Former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg is donating $50 million to help nations around the world shift from...
FBI Yet to Access Texas Shooter’s Phone
The FBI has yet to gain access to data on Devin Kelley’s phone four days after the former airman killed...
Video Games Could Be Next for Snapchat, China’s Tencent Says
Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings Ltd. on Thursday flagged video games and ad sales as areas where...
Philippine Outsourcing Industry Braces for Artificial Intelligence
The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centers in the...
Congress, Silicon Valley Seek Common Ground on Social Media Interference
Executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter faced anger from lawmakers last week over their platforms’ roles in Russian interference into...
Mnuchin to Fill Fed Vacancies, Awaits Yellen’s Decision
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that Janet Yellen has not said yet whether she plans to remain on the...
US Commerce Secretary to Sell Stake in Firm With Russian Ties
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to completely divest from a shipping company that counts a Russian gas producer with ties...
EU Pushes Cut in Car Emissions, Boost for Electric Vehicles
The European Commission said Wednesday it wants to cut emissions of carbon dioxide from cars by 30 percent by 2030...
FBI Again Finds Itself Unable to Unlock a Gunman’s Cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s...
Twitter, Snapchat Tweak Products to Lure More Users
Struggling social media platforms Twitter and Snapchat are taking on new looks as the services seek wider audiences in the...
Looking at Stars from a Jumbo-Jet
To learn more about how stars are formed, astronomers look at light coming from deep space that illuminate events that...
Tech Training Brings Hope to Young Refugees in Malawi
Microsoft and the U.N. Refugee Agency have partnered to teach about two dozen young refugees from around East Africa how...
Venezuelan Crisis Spawns Boom in Gambling
Players line up beside a small kiosk in a poor neighborhood to choose animals in a lottery game that has...
US Senate Panel Targets Chinese Banks with North Korea Sanctions
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee unanimously backed new sanctions targeting Chinese banks that do business with North Korea on Tuesday,...
Exploring Egypt’s Great Pyramid From the Inside, Virtually
A team of scientists who last week announced the discovery of a large void inside the Great Pyramid of Giza...
National Assembly: Venezuela’s January-October Inflation 826 Percent
Inflation in Venezuela’s crisis-hit economy was 826 percent in the 10 months to October and may end 2017 above 1,400...
US Demining Cut Provokes Cambodia
A U.S. decision to cut funding for a demining program in Cambodia threatens to further worsen a feud between Phnom...
Indonesia Threatens to Block WhatsApp Messaging Over Obscene Content
Indonesia on Monday vowed to block Facebook’s WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene...
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