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US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

U.S. stock market indexes posted gains in Friday’s trading, a change in direction after several down days amid tensions between...

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Rising tensions between the United States and North Korea brought a wave of falling stock prices recently as worried investors...

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is close to testing a long-haul self-driving electric truck that could drive in convoys following...

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google’s workforce needs to “represent the world in totality,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, at an international girls coding...

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times – but the land of single...

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone using technology they hope will eventually...

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Four U.S. Senate Republicans from oil-refining states Thursday urged the Trump administration not to block oil shipments from Venezuela as...

Arctic Fjords Help Russia Combat Fish Shortage Problems

Arctic Fjords Help Russia Combat Fish Shortage Problems

Arctic fjords that hid Soviet nuclear-powered submarines during the Cold War are now being used as a weapon in the...

Artificial Intelligence Robots Aiding in Battle Against Crippling Nerve Disease

Artificial Intelligence Robots Aiding in Battle Against Crippling Nerve Disease

Artificial intelligence robots are turbocharging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, commonly called Lou...

Cooking Gas Shortages Force Venezuelans to Turn to Firewood

Cooking Gas Shortages Force Venezuelans to Turn to Firewood

Venezuelan homemaker Carmen Rondon lives in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, but has spent weeks cooking with...

US Defense Secretary Mattis Begins Tech Outreach with Amazon Visit

US Defense Secretary Mattis Begins Tech Outreach with Amazon Visit

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis kicked off his first official visit to the U.S. technology industry on Thursday with a...

Egypt Inflation Surges to 33 Percent After Fuel Subsidy Cuts

Egypt Inflation Surges to 33 Percent After Fuel Subsidy Cuts

Egypt’s official statistics agency says the country’s inflation rate has jumped to 33 percent in July – up from 29.8...

China Sends ‘Hack Proof’ Code From Satellite to Earth

China Sends ‘Hack Proof’ Code From Satellite to Earth

China has sent an unbreakable code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution...

China to US: Be Prudent on Aluminum Duties

China to US: Be Prudent on Aluminum Duties

China urged the U.S. government Thursday to act “prudently” to avoid damaging economic relations between the two countries, in a...

Low Tech Startup Transforming Sewage Into Fuel

Low Tech Startup Transforming Sewage Into Fuel

The planet has a bit of a waste problem. Every year, at least 200 million tons of raw sewage goes...

In the Fight to End Modern Slavery, Machines May Hold Key

In the Fight to End Modern Slavery, Machines May Hold Key

More than 20 million people are working as modern slaves, and a technology developer is hoping artificial intelligence can help...

Author of Google Diversity Memo Files Labor Complaint After Firing

Author of Google Diversity Memo Files Labor Complaint After Firing

A former Google software engineer, who wrote an internal memo criticizing the company’s diversity policies, has filed a labor complaint,...

US Push for Freer NAFTA e-commerce Meets Growing Resistance

US Push for Freer NAFTA e-commerce Meets Growing Resistance

A U.S. proposal for Mexico and Canada to vastly raise the value of online purchases that can be imported duty-free...

In Croatia, Harvesting Salt the Centuries-old Way

In Croatia, Harvesting Salt the Centuries-old Way

Dozens of glistening pools in a small village on Croatia’s Adriatic coast stand testament to its annual salt harvests from...

Fired Google Memo Writer Draws Scorn, Cheers and a Job Offer

Fired Google Memo Writer Draws Scorn, Cheers and a Job Offer

The male Google engineer fired for circulating a memo decrying the company’s diversity hiring program became the center of a...

Artist Targets Twitter With Offline Hate Tweets

Artist Targets Twitter With Offline Hate Tweets

A German-Israeli artist who accuses Twitter of failing to delete hate speech tweets has taken matters into his own hands...

Google Engineer Fired Over Memo Casting Doubt on Need for Gender Diversity

Google Engineer Fired Over Memo Casting Doubt on Need for Gender Diversity

U.S. technology giant Google has fired a male engineer who wrote a memo questioning the need for gender diversity programs...