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Tesla Goes Big in China With Shanghai Plant

Tesla Goes Big in China With Shanghai Plant

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Tuesday landed a deal with Chinese authorities to build a new auto...

WhatsApp Launches Campaign in India to Spot Fake Messages

WhatsApp Launches Campaign in India to Spot Fake Messages

After hoax messages on WhatsApp fueled deadly mob violence in India, the Facebook-owned messaging platform published full-page advertisements in prominent...

Cuba Unfreezing Growth of Private Tourism Businesses

Cuba Unfreezing Growth of Private Tourism Businesses

The Cuban government will allow new restaurants, bed-and-breakfasts and transportation businesses by the end of the year, reopening the most...

BMW to Make Electric MINIs in China

BMW to Make Electric MINIs in China

BMW Group and the biggest Chinese SUV brand, Great Wall Motor, announced a partnership Tuesday to produce electric MINI vehicles...

New Startup Brings Robotics into Seniors’ Homes

New Startup Brings Robotics into Seniors’ Homes

Senior citizens – adults 65 and older – will outnumber children in the United States for the first time by...

New Startup Brings Robotics into Seniors Homes

New Startup Brings Robotics into Seniors Homes

In this age of the smart machine, robots are increasingly playing roles in different fields, from construction and hospitality to...

How China’s Chickens are Going to Lay a Billion Eggs a Day

How China’s Chickens are Going to Lay a Billion Eggs a Day

Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched...

YouTube Aims to Crack Down on Fake News, Support Journalism

YouTube Aims to Crack Down on Fake News, Support Journalism

Google’s YouTube says it is taking several steps to ensure the veracity of news on its service by cracking down...

Russia’s ACRA Rating Agency Says More Sanctions Are Key Risk

Russia’s ACRA Rating Agency Says More Sanctions Are Key Risk

The possibility of more Western sanctions against Moscow is the key risk for the Russian economy, as much as 21...

UN Predicts Growth in World Fish Production

UN Predicts Growth in World Fish Production

World fish production is expected to grow over the next 10 years despite a slowdown in both farmed and wild...

Twitter Shares Fall on Worries About User Base

Twitter Shares Fall on Worries About User Base

Twitter shares tumbled Monday on concerns the social media’s efforts to crack down on fake accounts would affect its user...

Students Learn About Science by Building Guitars

Students Learn About Science by Building Guitars

Some students in Virginia who play the guitar are also learning how to build them. It’s part of an after-school...

Some in Washington Wary as Silicon Valley Welcomes Chinese Investments

Some in Washington Wary as Silicon Valley Welcomes Chinese Investments

While the Trump administration is putting tariffs on Chinese imports, another battle has been brewing about whether the United States...

Some in Washington Wary as Silicon Valley Embraces Chinese Investments

Some in Washington Wary as Silicon Valley Embraces Chinese Investments

U.S. policymakers are raising national security concerns about Chinese money flooding into U.S. startups in fields such as artificial intelligence...

Mother Homeschools 14 Children, Builds Multimillion-Dollar Business

Mother Homeschools 14 Children, Builds Multimillion-Dollar Business

What started as a simple desire to be able to provide for her children has turned into a multimillion-dollar business...

Researchers: Smart Toilet Will Analyze Urine for Medical Data

Researchers: Smart Toilet Will Analyze Urine for Medical Data

Nano technology researchers at the University of Cambridge are developing an intelligent toilet that might change the nature of medicine....

Mexico’s Next President Aims to End Fuel Imports

Mexico’s Next President Aims to End Fuel Imports

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will seek to end the country’s massive fuel imports, nearly all from the United States, during...

Shipping Giant Exits Iran, Fears US Sanctions

Shipping Giant Exits Iran, Fears US Sanctions

One of the world’s biggest cargo shippers announced Saturday that it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled...

Solid Job Gains Overshadowed by Threat of US-China Trade War

Solid Job Gains Overshadowed by Threat of US-China Trade War

The opening shots have been fired in what some fear may be the start of a major trade war. China...

Syrian Refugees in Jordanian Camp Recycle Mounds of Trash for Cash

Syrian Refugees in Jordanian Camp Recycle Mounds of Trash for Cash

Amid the very real hardships Syrian refugees face, little has been said about another major health and humanitarian issue: What...

How Trade Fight Impacts National Economies, Ordinary People

How Trade Fight Impacts National Economies, Ordinary People

The political squabbling between China and the United States over trade and other issues affect the world’s two largest economies...

Trump’s Tariffs: What They Are, How They’ll Work

Trump’s Tariffs: What They Are, How They’ll Work

So is this what a trade war looks like? The Trump administration and China’s leadership have imposed tens of billions...