Posts by Newsmaker

Ham for a Watch: Venezuelans Struggle With Cash Shortages

Ham for a Watch: Venezuelans Struggle With Cash Shortages

Venezuelans already struggling to find food, medicine and other basic necessities have a new shortage to worry about: cash.  ...

US Chamber: Trump Making ‘Highly Dangerous’ NAFTA Demands 

US Chamber: Trump Making ‘Highly Dangerous’ NAFTA Demands 

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned on Friday that the Trump administration was making “highly dangerous demands” in the North...

US House Committee Calls New Hearing on Kaspersky Software

US House Committee Calls New Hearing on Kaspersky Software

A U.S. House of Representatives committee said Friday that it had scheduled a new hearing on Kaspersky Lab software as...

Women in Tech Talk Change in Orlando

Women in Tech Talk Change in Orlando

In Orlando, Florida, where tourists come for the palm trees, shopping and theme parks, 18,000 women converged recently on the...

Nate Takes Aim as US Still Reels From Earlier Storms

Nate Takes Aim as US Still Reels From Earlier Storms

Tropical Storm Nate is being blamed for more than 20 deaths across Central America even as it tracks toward a...

New Japan Party Unveils ‘Yurikonomics’ Deregulation Steps

New Japan Party Unveils ‘Yurikonomics’ Deregulation Steps

A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday it hopes to pursue policies to revive the...

Why Do Land Rights Matter to Communities and Companies?

Why Do Land Rights Matter to Communities and Companies?

Experts met in Stockholm this week to assess progress on securing land rights for indigenous people and local communities and...

Microsoft to Help Expand Rural Broadband in 6 US States

Microsoft to Help Expand Rural Broadband in 6 US States

Microsoft said Thursday that it would team up with communities in six U.S. states to invest in technology and related...

Study: Student Debt Defaults More Likely at For-Profit Schools

Study: Student Debt Defaults More Likely at For-Profit Schools

Students who attended for-profit colleges were twice as likely or more to default on their loans than students who attended...

Development of Electric-Powered Planes

Development of Electric-Powered Planes

As electric-powered cars are rapidly gaining popularity, the last frontier in private transportation is also opening up to alternative, eco-friendly...

GM More Than Doubles Self-Driving Car Test Fleet in California

GM More Than Doubles Self-Driving Car Test Fleet in California

General Motors’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, has more than doubled the size of its test fleet of robot cars in...

Drought-hit and Hungry, Sri Lankans Struggle for a Harvest — or Work

Drought-hit and Hungry, Sri Lankans Struggle for a Harvest — or Work

At 52 years old, with two grown children, Newton Gunathileka thought he should be working less by this point. Instead...

Archaeologists Put Greek Resort Step Closer to Reality

Archaeologists Put Greek Resort Step Closer to Reality

Greece welcomed Wednesday a decision by senior archaeologists to conditionally permit a major tourism project in Athens, saying it cleared...

Horses to Power Helsinki Horse Show, With Droppings

Horses to Power Helsinki Horse Show, With Droppings

Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative...

Yellen: Fed Committed to Easing Regulations on Smaller Banks

Yellen: Fed Committed to Easing Regulations on Smaller Banks

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the Fed is committed to making sure that the regulations it imposes...

US Business Groups Say WTO Unable to Curb Many Chinese Trade Practices

US Business Groups Say WTO Unable to Curb Many Chinese Trade Practices

U.S. business groups expressed frustration on Wednesday with what they said are China’s efforts to tilt the economic playing field...

Tourists Trickle Back to Tunisia After 2015 Militant Attacks

Tourists Trickle Back to Tunisia After 2015 Militant Attacks

Dozens of tourists pack beach chairs at a Tunisian luxury hotel, where everything from the swimming pool to the wall...

Will Your Job Be Automated? 70 Percent of Americans Say No

Will Your Job Be Automated? 70 Percent of Americans Say No

Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and...

Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs

Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs

A lab in Cambodia is using cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, swarm robotics and 3-D...

Senate Bill to Clear Obstacles to Self-driving Cars Advances

Senate Bill to Clear Obstacles to Self-driving Cars Advances

Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s...

Yahoo Says All 3 Billion Accounts Hacked in 2013 Data Theft

Yahoo Says All 3 Billion Accounts Hacked in 2013 Data Theft

Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its...

Ford Plans $14B in Cost Cuts as Part of New CEO’s Strategy

Ford Plans $14B in Cost Cuts as Part of New CEO’s Strategy

Ford Motor Co.’s new CEO plans to cut $14 billion in costs, drop some car models and focus the company’s...