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Tech Companies Gear up for CES, the Massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Tech Companies Gear up for CES, the Massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Nearly 4,000 companies and 170,000 people will descend on Las Vegas next week for CES, the massive consumer electronics show....

US Economy Ends Year with Modest Job Gains

US Economy Ends Year with Modest Job Gains

The U.S. economy ended 2017 by adding 148,000 new jobs in December. Despite the modest gain, hiring was strong enough...

Twitter Says Accounts of World Leaders Have Special Status

Twitter Says Accounts of World Leaders Have Special Status

Social media giant Twitter has reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status, pushing back against...

Businesses Delay Patch, Fear Fix Will Be Worse Than Chip Flaw

Businesses Delay Patch, Fear Fix Will Be Worse Than Chip Flaw

Chances that a fix to a major microchip security flaw may slow down or crash some computer systems are leading...

Bluefin Tuna Brings $320,000 at Japanese Market

Bluefin Tuna Brings $320,000 at Japanese Market

An 892-pound (405-kilogram) bluefin tuna has sold for 36.5 million yen ($320,000) in what may really be Tsukiji market’s last...

Internet Association to Join Expected Net Neutrality Lawsuit

Internet Association to Join Expected Net Neutrality Lawsuit

The Internet Association, a trade group representing companies such as Google parent Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc, said on Friday...

US Employers Add Modest 148,000 Jobs; Unemployment 4.1 Pct.

US Employers Add Modest 148,000 Jobs; Unemployment 4.1 Pct.

U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in December, a modest gain but still enough to suggest that the economy entered the...

Brits Call for ‘Latte Levy’ to Reduce Cup Waste

Brits Call for ‘Latte Levy’ to Reduce Cup Waste

Britain should charge a 25-pence ($0.34) levy on disposable coffee cups to cut down waste and use the money to...

Tech Startups Hope to Impress at CES

Tech Startups Hope to Impress at CES

The Consumer Electronics show opens this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are a host of new tech startups descending...

Apple to Issue Fix for iPhones, Macs at Risk From Chip Flaw

Apple to Issue Fix for iPhones, Macs at Risk From Chip Flaw

Apple Inc. will release a patch for the Safari web browser on its iPhones, iPads and Macs within days, it said Thursday,...

Investors Skittish, but Marijuana Growers, Sellers to Stay the Course

Investors Skittish, but Marijuana Growers, Sellers to Stay the Course

Marijuana-related stocks plummeted, cannabis boosters worried about the industry’s future and defiant growers and sellers vowed to keep operating after...

Intel Shares Fall as Investors Worry About Costs of Chip Flaw

Intel Shares Fall as Investors Worry About Costs of Chip Flaw

Intel Corp shares fell nearly 2 percent Thursday as investors worried about the potential financial liability and reputational hit from...

Wall Street’s Love of Tax Cuts Drives Dow to 25,000 Mark

Wall Street’s Love of Tax Cuts Drives Dow to 25,000 Mark

Wall Street sure loves the tax bill, even if polls show most Americans don’t. The Dow Jones industrial average surged...

Interior Department Wants to Open 90 Percent of US Continental Shelf to Drilling    

Interior Department Wants to Open 90 Percent of US Continental Shelf to Drilling    

The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced plans to open up 90 percent of America’s coastal waters to oil...

Chicken Waste Could Generate Power Plant Electricity

Chicken Waste Could Generate Power Plant Electricity

Coal-fired power plants release greenhouse gases into the air, causing pollution and contributing to climate change. But as much as...

Australia Plans Legal Cannabis Exports to a Lucrative World Market

Australia Plans Legal Cannabis Exports to a Lucrative World Market

Australia said Thursday it planned to become the fourth country in the world to legalize medicinal marijuana exports in a...

US Auto Sales Decline, Ending Record Streak

US Auto Sales Decline, Ending Record Streak

Auto sales in the United States fell by 2 percent in 2017, the first decline in seven years. Ford Motor...

Security Flaws Put Virtually All Phones, Computers at Risk, Researchers Say

Security Flaws Put Virtually All Phones, Computers at Risk, Researchers Say

Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern...

Blackberry Surges on Deal With Baidu for Self-driving Cars

Blackberry Surges on Deal With Baidu for Self-driving Cars

BlackBerry Ltd and Chinese internet search firm Baidu Inc on Wednesday signed a deal to jointly develop self-driving vehicle technology,...

One Difference Between 2009 vs 2018 Iran Protests? 48 Million Smartphones

One Difference Between 2009 vs 2018 Iran Protests? 48 Million Smartphones

In 2009, the world watched as Iranians marching in the streets turned to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook...

African Conservationists Praise China’s Ivory Ban

African Conservationists Praise China’s Ivory Ban

The sale of ivory just became illegal in mainland China, a move heralded by conservationists, who say the legal trade...

What’s Next in the Robotics Industry?

What’s Next in the Robotics Industry?

The robotics industry has made impressive advancements in 2017, and that’s expected to continue as robots are becoming more sophisticated,...