Digest

World and business news. The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a “plurality of worlds”

Study: US Insurers Unprepared for Climate Change Disasters 

Study: US Insurers Unprepared for Climate Change Disasters 

Most U.S. insurance companies have not adapted their strategies to address the dangers of climate change, making them likely to...

Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ Adapted for Video Game

Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ Adapted for Video Game

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to...

Mexico Central Bank to Create Cybersecurity Unit After Hack

Mexico Central Bank to Create Cybersecurity Unit After Hack

Mexico’s central bank said Tuesday that it was creating a cybersecurity unit, following a hack on a domestic payments system...

US Lawmakers Push Back on Trump Talk of Helping China’s ZTE

US Lawmakers Push Back on Trump Talk of Helping China’s ZTE

U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday rejected any plan by President Donald Trump to ease restrictions on China’s ZTE Corp, calling the...

US Senate Preps for Net Neutrality Vote

US Senate Preps for Net Neutrality Vote

Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch campaign to preserve so-called “net neutrality” that has prevented certain content or users from...

UN Prepares to Boost Food Aid to North Korea

UN Prepares to Boost Food Aid to North Korea

The head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday said the North Korean leadership is hopeful that...

US China Sending Signals, but is Deal Close?

US China Sending Signals, but is Deal Close?

Even before US and Chinese officials sit down this week for a second round of high-level trade talks in Washington,...

China Tech Giants Bet on Untangling Logistics of Indonesian E-commerce

China Tech Giants Bet on Untangling Logistics of Indonesian E-commerce

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, supervisors at e-commerce company Lazada use bikes or electric scooters to...

Kenya Steps Into Space with First Satellite Launch

Kenya Steps Into Space with First Satellite Launch

Kenya took its first step into space with the launch Friday of a nano-satellite made at the University of Nairobi....

Bubble Barrier Stopping Plastic Trash in River Streams

Bubble Barrier Stopping Plastic Trash in River Streams

According to the University of California, in 1950 the world produced about two million tons of plastic products. By 2015...

Musk Tells Tesla Staff He Is Planning ‘Reorganization’

Musk Tells Tesla Staff He Is Planning ‘Reorganization’

Tesla’s chief executive officer told employees on Monday the company is undergoing a “thorough reorganization,” as it contends with questions...

EU Warns Britain of Poor Brexit Progress

EU Warns Britain of Poor Brexit Progress

The European Union on Monday warned Britain time was running out to seal a Brexit deal this fall and ensure...

Russian Bank Helps Venezuela Defy US Cryptocurrency Sanctions

Russian Bank Helps Venezuela Defy US Cryptocurrency Sanctions

Investors looking to buy Venezuela’s new cryptocurrency may want to head to a little-known Moscow bank whose biggest shareholders are...

Forget Pokemon Go, Red Cross Augmented Reality App Brings War to You

Forget Pokemon Go, Red Cross Augmented Reality App Brings War to You

Thousands of people are using their smartphones to experience the devastation of urban conflict through an augmented reality app which...

West Africa Taps Solar Energy Potential

West Africa Taps Solar Energy Potential

In South Africa, workers will soon begin construction of a new 100 megawatt solar power plant near the town of...

Scientists Modify Biology with Technology

Scientists Modify Biology with Technology

Imagine storing digital data in DNA, wearing a device that makes you smarter or creating new materials by manipulating the...

Trump Vows Action to Ease Job Loss at Chinese Tech Giant

Trump Vows Action to Ease Job Loss at Chinese Tech Giant

President Donald Trump says he is looking for a way to let a Chinese technology firm “get back into business...

Management Training in India Aims to Empower Professional Women

Management Training in India Aims to Empower Professional Women

There’s a push to level the playing field for women in India, where women account for 42 percent of university...

NASA to Send Tiny Helicopter to Mars 

NASA to Send Tiny Helicopter to Mars 

NASA is planning to send a tiny autonomous helicopter to Mars on its next rover mission to the red planet....

How Close Is Electric Aviation?

How Close Is Electric Aviation?

Electric-powered ground transport is slowly but steadily taking over from one based on fossil fuels. Electric cars, buses, bikes, scooters,...

Facebook Checks Its Bias

Facebook Checks Its Bias

When Facebook recently said it would allow outside reviewers inside its platform to look for signs of racial or political...

Latest Round of NAFTA Talks Ends Without Breakthrough

Latest Round of NAFTA Talks Ends Without Breakthrough

Senior officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico ended the latest round of talks on the North American Free...