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Too Many Jobs, Too Few Qualified Workers are Economic Obstacles in Vietnam

Too Many Jobs, Too Few Qualified Workers are Economic Obstacles in Vietnam

Vietnam has long been a tough place to hire and keep employees, but it’s even tougher now, as business trends...

Google’s AI Assistant Aims to Transcend the Smart Speaker

Google’s AI Assistant Aims to Transcend the Smart Speaker

When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran. At...

WSJ: Google Set to Launch Privacy Tools to Limit Online Tracking 

WSJ: Google Set to Launch Privacy Tools to Limit Online Tracking 

Alphabet’s Google is set to roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in...

China Prepares for Trade Talks Despite Trump’s New Threat

China Prepares for Trade Talks Despite Trump’s New Threat

China says its negotiators are preparing to travel to the United States for their next round of trade talks this...

Microsoft’s Offers Software Tools to Secure Elections

Microsoft’s Offers Software Tools to Secure Elections

Microsoft announced an ambitious effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits. Two of the...

EXPLAINER: Who Pays Trump’s Tariffs — China and Other Exporters or US Customers?

EXPLAINER: Who Pays Trump’s Tariffs — China and Other Exporters or US Customers?

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would raise tariffs to 25 percent from 10 percent on $200 billion...

Boeing Did Not Disclose 737 MAX Alert Issue to FAA for 13 Months

Boeing Did Not Disclose 737 MAX Alert Issue to FAA for 13 Months

Boeing did not tell U.S. regulators for more than a year that it inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to...

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breaking Up Big Agriculture Monopolies

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breaking Up Big Agriculture Monopolies

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture...

Trump: US to Impose Higher Tariffs on Chinese Exports

Trump: US to Impose Higher Tariffs on Chinese Exports

U.S. President Donald Trump, looking to pressure China to speed up talks on a new trade agreement, says that starting...

Ride a Roller Coaster with No Wheels, No Track

Ride a Roller Coaster with No Wheels, No Track

Virtual Reality had a fantastic year in 2016, with the release of several anticipated VR glasses, including the Oculus Rift...

Nanotechnology Lenses Help Focus the Lighting Industry

Nanotechnology Lenses Help Focus the Lighting Industry

An innovative Czech company is changing the way we think of light, by capturing and transforming it in ways that...

Inflatable Robot the Future of Space and Home Robotics, Academics Say

Inflatable Robot the Future of Space and Home Robotics, Academics Say

Lightweight, cheap to make and easier to send into outer space. Academics in the U.S. are developing an inflatable robot...

European, US Authorities Bust Major Darknet Site

European, US Authorities Bust Major Darknet Site

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and...

30 Nations Pitch Internet Security Rules Amid Huawei Concern

30 Nations Pitch Internet Security Rules Amid Huawei Concern

Cybersecurity officials from dozens of countries on Friday proposed a set of principles to ensure the safety of next generation...

US Adds Robust 263K Jobs; Unemployment at 49-Year Low

US Adds Robust 263K Jobs; Unemployment at 49-Year Low

U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy...

Vietnam Develops Own Smartphones After Decades of Contract Work

Vietnam Develops Own Smartphones After Decades of Contract Work

Vietnam is used to being an order taker. Companies such as Nokia and Samsung Electronics use the Southeast Asian country’s...

SpaceX Admits Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test

SpaceX Admits Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test

Nearly two weeks after a fiery explosion during a ground test of its new crew capsule, SpaceX confirmed Thursday that...

Facebook Bans Several Personalities for Hate Speech

Facebook Bans Several Personalities for Hate Speech

The hugely popular social media site Facebook has banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and...

White House Downplays Trump Meeting With Tycoon

White House Downplays Trump Meeting With Tycoon

A White House meeting between the current U.S. president and a prominent businessman who is seeking to become president of Taiwan...

Beyond Meat Goes Public as Sales of Plant-based Meats Rise

Beyond Meat Goes Public as Sales of Plant-based Meats Rise

The Nasdaq is adding fake meat to its diet. Beyond Meat, the purveyor of plant-based burgers and sausages, made its...

Trump’s Favored Sanctions Meet Resistance

Trump’s Favored Sanctions Meet Resistance

President Donald Trump is increasingly reliant upon economic sanctions to achieve his foreign policy goals, despite a repeated emphasis that...

US Renews Warning to Allies on Huawei

US Renews Warning to Allies on Huawei

Britain’s prime minister fired her defense minister Wednesday after finding ‘compelling evidence’ that he leaked information to journalists about a...