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WhatsApp Makes Changes in India After Deadly Attacks

WhatsApp Makes Changes in India After Deadly Attacks

WhatsApp has announced changes for its 200 million users in India following the spread of viral messages via the app...

Report: North Korea Economy Shrank Sharply in 2017

Report: North Korea Economy Shrank Sharply in 2017

North Korea’s economy contracted at the sharpest rate in two decades in 2017, South Korea’s central bank estimated Friday, in...

Autonomous Boats Can Offer Help on the Water

Autonomous Boats Can Offer Help on the Water

If there can be driverless cars on the road, why not driverless boats on the water? Faith Lapidus has details...

China Boosts Liquidity as Trade War Threatens Economy

China Boosts Liquidity as Trade War Threatens Economy

Chinese policymakers are pumping more liquidity into the financial system and channeling credit to small- and medium-sized firms, and Beijing...

Cyberattacks on 2018 US Political Campaigns Already Underway

Cyberattacks on 2018 US Political Campaigns Already Underway

Hackers targeted the campaigns of at least three candidates running for Congress in the upcoming 2018 U.S. elections, but the...

Trump Administration Wants to Scrap Some Species Protection

Trump Administration Wants to Scrap Some Species Protection

The Trump administration wants to scrap automatic federal protection for threatened plants and animals, a move that would anger environmentalists...

Trump Slams Record EU Fine Against Google

Trump Slams Record EU Fine Against Google

President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday after Brussels hit US tech giant Google with a record fine, and warned he...

Chinese Ambassador: EU Should Not Mix Politics,Trade in Cambodia

Chinese Ambassador: EU Should Not Mix Politics,Trade in Cambodia

China’s Ambassador in Phnom Penh says the European Union should not mix politics with trade as it mulls withdrawing Cambodia’s...

Doctors Can Prevent More Amputations With Limb Saving Surgery

Doctors Can Prevent More Amputations With Limb Saving Surgery

For more than 30 years, doctors have worked to save people’s arms and legs. VOA’s Carol Pearson reports, saving a...

Facebook to Remove ‘Fake News’ That Leads to Violence

Facebook to Remove ‘Fake News’ That Leads to Violence

Facebook says it will begin removing false information from its site that could lead to violence. “There are certain forms...

Report: Asia-Pacific Factories Lead in Using Digital Technology

Report: Asia-Pacific Factories Lead in Using Digital Technology

She may not be the warmest waitress, but she serves a nice, hot cup of “Joe” at a café on...

50 Years After Concorde, US Start-Up Eyes Supersonic Future

50 Years After Concorde, US Start-Up Eyes Supersonic Future

Luxury air travel faster than the speed of sound: A US start-up is aiming to revive commercial supersonic flight 50...

Elon Musk Apologizes for Comments About Cave Rescue Diver

Elon Musk Apologizes for Comments About Cave Rescue Diver

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has apologized for calling a British diver involved in the Thailand cave rescue a...

Cute Robots Invade Smithsonian Museum

Cute Robots Invade Smithsonian Museum

Known as the largest education, and research complex in the world, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is a collection...

Cute Robots Invade the Smithsonian

Cute Robots Invade the Smithsonian

Known as the largest education, and research complex in the world, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is a collection...

Why is Facebook Keen on Robots? It’s Just the Future of AI

Why is Facebook Keen on Robots? It’s Just the Future of AI

Facebook announced several new hires of top academics in the field of artificial intelligence Tuesday, among them a roboticist known...

Boeing Gets $3.9B Contract for New Air Force One Jets

Boeing Gets $3.9B Contract for New Air Force One Jets

Boeing has received a $3.9 billion contract to build two 747-8 aircraft for use as Air Force One by the...

Fashion Firms Upend Design Routine to Focus on Speed, Trends

Fashion Firms Upend Design Routine to Focus on Speed, Trends

Prototypes? Passe. Fashion company Betabrand saw that knitwear was a hot style in sneakers and wanted to quickly jump on...

Twitter Suspended 58M Accounts in Last Quarter of ’17, AP Says

Twitter Suspended 58M Accounts in Last Quarter of ’17, AP Says

Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data obtained by...

3D Printing Helps Restore 18th Century Chinese Pagoda

3D Printing Helps Restore 18th Century Chinese Pagoda

Twenty-first century technology has helped restore an 18th century Chinese pagoda in the heart of London. Faith Lapidus has the...

Classic 1965 Ford Mustang given self-driving abilities

Classic 1965 Ford Mustang given self-driving abilities

Scientists from Cranfield University in Britain have teamed up with the engineering firm Siemens to retro-fit a classic 1965 Ford...

Venezuela Pleads Guilty in US to Role in PDVSA Bribe Scheme

Venezuela Pleads Guilty in US to Role in PDVSA Bribe Scheme

A former official at a Venezuelan state-run electric company pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. charges that he participated in...