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40 Years After Launch Voyager 1 Still Sending Data

40 Years After Launch Voyager 1 Still Sending Data

Forty years ago, as President Carter was spending his first year in office, NASA launched two spacecraft hoping to learn...

Trump’s Trade Adviser Says Hopes to Reach Trade Deal with S. Korea

Trump’s Trade Adviser Says Hopes to Reach Trade Deal with S. Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser expressed optimism on Tuesday about reaching agreement on a revised free trade pact...

New York Fashion Week Ready for Kickoff

New York Fashion Week Ready for Kickoff

New York Fashion Week, the first in a series of global style weeks during September, is gearing up with designers...

Facebook’s Pricey Cricket Bid Shows Appetite for Big Sports Events

Facebook’s Pricey Cricket Bid Shows Appetite for Big Sports Events

Facebook’s $600 million losing bid to buy the streaming rights to a hugely popular cricket tournament in India shows the...

Immigrants Are Sought for Labor Shortage in Harvey Recovery

Immigrants Are Sought for Labor Shortage in Harvey Recovery

As a parade of motorists rolled down their windows on the edges of a Houston Home Depot parking lot offering...

US Factory Orders Tumbled 3.3 Percent in July

US Factory Orders Tumbled 3.3 Percent in July

Orders at U.S. factories tumbled in July, dragged down by a sharp fall in orders for civilian aircraft.   The...

For Chinese Millennials, Despondency Has a Brand Name

For Chinese Millennials, Despondency Has a Brand Name

Chinese millennials with a dim view of their career and marriage prospects can wallow in despair with a range of...

Growing US Dilemma: Automated Jobs Meet Social Consciousness

Growing US Dilemma: Automated Jobs Meet Social Consciousness

Security guard Eric Leon watches the Knightscope K5 security robot as it glides through the mall, charming shoppers with its...

Creator of Food Sharing App Wants to Feed the World

Creator of Food Sharing App Wants to Feed the World

Here’s a statistic for you to consider: the U.N. estimates that over 30 percent of the food that is produced...

Internet of Things Relying on Personal Assistants

Internet of Things Relying on Personal Assistants

The world of smart appliances capable of communicating with humans is slowly taking shape, thanks to the increasing popularity and...

Report: Fewer Americans Along Coasts Buy Flood Insurance

Report: Fewer Americans Along Coasts Buy Flood Insurance

Amanda Spartz nearly did not renew her home’s flood insurance policy after her first year in Florida. Two hurricanes came...

Mesh Networks Can Keep People Connected During Natural Disasters

Mesh Networks Can Keep People Connected During Natural Disasters

Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey pose a threat not only to human lives but also to telecommunication systems. When they...

Cambodian Indigenous Minorities Fighting Tide of Development

Cambodian Indigenous Minorities Fighting Tide of Development

Sah Phon can live with some grief from his ancestral spirits.   The elderly villager abandoned them in Cambodia’s Stung...

Schoolchildren Help Build Tiny Home for Homeless Veteran

Schoolchildren Help Build Tiny Home for Homeless Veteran

Homelessness is a serious problem, and there are a variety of approaches to combating it. Faith Lapidus has the story...

Washington-area Nonprofit Reclaims Floors and Doors, Gives Back to Community

Washington-area Nonprofit Reclaims Floors and Doors, Gives Back to Community

U.S. home builders created more than a million units of housing in 2016. Often, older homes are demolished to make...

Harvey Likely to Crimp Growth, Employment Temporarily

Harvey Likely to Crimp Growth, Employment Temporarily

Hurricane Harvey may temporarily slow U.S. consumer spending, hurt national economic growth and boost unemployment for a while. Experts say...

Russia Sees Artificial Intelligence as Key to World Domination

Russia Sees Artificial Intelligence as Key to World Domination

The digital arms race between the United States and Russia appears to be accelerating, fueled in part by new comments...

New Uber CEO Highlights Iranians in Tech

New Uber CEO Highlights Iranians in Tech

In Silicon Valley, all eyes are on Dara Khosrowshahi, the new CEO of Uber, who starts his turnaround of the...

US Unemployment Edges Upward to 4.4 Percent

US Unemployment Edges Upward to 4.4 Percent

The U.S. unemployment rate rose slightly in August and the net gain in jobs was lower than economists predicted. Friday’s...

Desalination Promises Ample Supply of Fresh Water

Desalination Promises Ample Supply of Fresh Water

Although 75 percent of our planet is covered with water, many countries around the world suffer from a low supply...

African Migrants Find Work as Beekeepers in Italy

African Migrants Find Work as Beekeepers in Italy

Aid groups have criticized efforts by European leaders to stem the flow of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, arguing Europe’s economy...

Old Tires and Congealed Fat Generate Interest and Energy

Old Tires and Congealed Fat Generate Interest and Energy

Some energy, like solar and wind, is renewable. Other sources of power are recyclable. Faith Lapidus tells us how old...