Bait Crisis Could Take the Steam Out of Lobster This Summer

Bait Crisis Could Take the Steam Out of Lobster This Summer

The boom times for the U.S. lobster industry are imperiled this year because of a shortage of a little fish...

Eiffel Tower, Other Sites Go Dark for Earth Hour 

Eiffel Tower, Other Sites Go Dark for Earth Hour 

The Eiffel Tower was plunged into darkness late on Saturday as the city of Paris switched off the lights on its best-known...

World Turns Off Lights for Earth Hour 

World Turns Off Lights for Earth Hour 

The Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, the Sydney Opera House, the Brandenburg Gate, the Acropolis and many more iconic...

US, China Face Off Over 5G in Cambodia

US, China Face Off Over 5G in Cambodia

For techies and phone geeks, Digital Cambodia 2019 was the place to be. More than a dozen high school students...

US Uses Obscure Agency to Target Chinese Foreign Investments

US Uses Obscure Agency to Target Chinese Foreign Investments

For decades, it was virtually unknown outside a small circle of investors, corporate lawyers and government officials.    But in...

Facebook Beefs Up Political Ad Rules Ahead of EU Election

Facebook Beefs Up Political Ad Rules Ahead of EU Election

Facebook said Friday it is further tightening requirements for European Union political advertising, in its latest efforts to prevent foreign...

Lyft Shares Soar on Nasdaq Debut After IPO

Lyft Shares Soar on Nasdaq Debut After IPO

Lyft Inc shares on Friday opened up 21.2 percent at $87.24 in its market debut on the Nasdaq after the...

Students Mix Tech, Fashion Wearables for the Disabled

Students Mix Tech, Fashion Wearables for the Disabled

Most of us don’t give much thought to getting dressed every day, but for the elderly and disabled, seemingly simple...

Graphene Begins to Realize its Potential

Graphene Begins to Realize its Potential

At one atom thick, graphene is one of those miracle materials that many say is the stuff of the future....

Bipartisan Support Seen for a US-Taiwan Free-trade Deal 

Bipartisan Support Seen for a US-Taiwan Free-trade Deal 

Influential figures in Washington are calling for the establishment of a bilateral free-trade agreement with Taiwan, even as U.S. and...

US Housing Department Charges Facebook With Housing Discrimination

US Housing Department Charges Facebook With Housing Discrimination

Facebook was charged with discrimination by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development because of its ad-targeting system. HUD...

Tossing Coins on Brexit: 2nd Referendum, General Election?

Tossing Coins on Brexit: 2nd Referendum, General Election?

Britons desperately wanting some clarity in the country’s interminable Brexit saga were disappointed Wednesday when lawmakers plunged the country’s proposed...

British Report Finds Technical Risks in Huawei Network Gear

British Report Finds Technical Risks in Huawei Network Gear

British cybersecurity inspectors have found significant technical issues in Chinese telecom supplier Huawei’s software that they say pose risks for...

Iceland’s WOW Air budget Carrier Collapses, Cancels all Flights

Iceland’s WOW Air budget Carrier Collapses, Cancels all Flights

Iceland’s budget carrier WOW Air said it had ceased operations and cancelled all flights on Thursday, potentially stranding thousands of...

Students Mix Tech, Fashion Wearables for Disabled

Students Mix Tech, Fashion Wearables for Disabled

Most of us don’t give much thought to getting dressed every day, but for the elderly and disabled, seemingly simple...

Facebook, Instagram Ban White Nationalist Speech

Facebook, Instagram Ban White Nationalist Speech

Facebook has announced it is banning praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and separatism on its platform and on...

Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Win Tech’s ‘Nobel Prize’

Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Win Tech’s ‘Nobel Prize’

Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don’t think twice about chatting with digital assistants...

India Claims Successful Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

India Claims Successful Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country has shot down a satellite in low orbit, entering an exclusive club...

Updating Software, Shaping History: New Imperial Era Name Looms Large in Japan

Updating Software, Shaping History: New Imperial Era Name Looms Large in Japan

In Japan, every emperor’s era has its own name – appearing in places such as coins, official paperwork and newspapers...

One in Three Fear Losing Homes in West and Central Africa, Poll Finds

One in Three Fear Losing Homes in West and Central Africa, Poll Finds

Nearly one in three people living in West and Central Africa fear losing their homes and land in the next...

Land Lost, Families Uprooted as Myanmar Pushes Industrial Zones

Land Lost, Families Uprooted as Myanmar Pushes Industrial Zones

Than Ei lived in the Thilawa area near Yangon for years, growing vegetables in her backyard and sending her two...

US Labor Unions Say USMCA Doesn’t Go Far Enough for Workers

US Labor Unions Say USMCA Doesn’t Go Far Enough for Workers

U.S. labor officials on Tuesday pressed lawmakers to strengthen enforcement of the provisions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) intended...