California Preps for Pot-infused Fare, From Wine to Tacos

California Preps for Pot-infused Fare, From Wine to Tacos

The sauvignon blanc boasts brassy, citrus notes, but with one whiff, it’s apparent this is no normal Sonoma County wine....

Vietnam Unveils 10,000-strong Cyberunit to Combat ‘Wrong Views’

Vietnam Unveils 10,000-strong Cyberunit to Combat ‘Wrong Views’

Vietnam has unveiled a new, 10,000-strong military cyberwarfare unit to counter “wrong” views on the Internet, media reported, amid a widening crackdown on...

Breaking Gender Barrier in Construction

Breaking Gender Barrier in Construction

Construction is one of the fields that has long been dominated by men. Though women have increasingly come to the...

Rohingya Refugees Face Financial  Problems in Bangladesh

Rohingya Refugees Face Financial Problems in Bangladesh

Many Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh facing diminished income are supplementing their needs with work in the camps. Steve Sandford talks...

Israel Regulator Seeks to Ban Bitcoin Firms From Stock Exchange

Israel Regulator Seeks to Ban Bitcoin Firms From Stock Exchange

Israel’s markets regulator said on Monday he will propose regulation to ban companies based on bitcoin and other digital currencies...

Securing Your Data in Cloud Storage

Securing Your Data in Cloud Storage

Saving digital files in commercial memory banks called cloud storage is a cheap and convenient way for long-term storage of...

German Employers Use Music to Spur Workplace Harmony

German Employers Use Music to Spur Workplace Harmony

Management experts are always coming up with innovative ideas to improve the work environment, inspire employees and raise productivity. Big...

China’s Xi Seen Taking More Risks at Home and Abroad in 2018

China’s Xi Seen Taking More Risks at Home and Abroad in 2018

In 2017, China’s Xi Jinping rose to become the country’s most powerful leader in decades. And as he shoulders more...

Bike Sharing Business Brings Competition from China

Bike Sharing Business Brings Competition from China

Silicon Valley has long inspired Chinese business and tech ventures. But now that a Chinese dockless bike share company has...

Self-repairing Glass Could End Cracked Cellphones

Self-repairing Glass Could End Cracked Cellphones

There is an entire industry of add-ons that are designed to keep your cellphone screen from cracking. And yet broken...

US Holiday Travel Numbers Up

US Holiday Travel Numbers Up

Americans are traveling in record numbers this season, according to the American Automobile Association’s (AAA) annual estimate, which forecasts more...

Bitcoin’s Roller-coaster Ride May Get Wilder

Bitcoin’s Roller-coaster Ride May Get Wilder

What’s a bitcoin worth? Lately nobody knows for sure, but after a wild ride Friday, it’s worth a good deal...

Rocket’s Arc Across California Sky Stops Traffic

Rocket’s Arc Across California Sky Stops Traffic

A reused SpaceX rocket carried 10 satellites into orbit from California on Friday, leaving behind a trail of mystery and...

Researchers Date Parts of Jesus’ Tomb to Time of Constantine

Researchers Date Parts of Jesus’ Tomb to Time of Constantine

Over the next month, Christians of all kinds will celebrate the birth of Jesus. The world has been wondering about...

Hard-line Islamist Group in Indonesia to Boycott Facebook

Hard-line Islamist Group in Indonesia to Boycott Facebook

Indonesia’s foremost hard-line Islamist group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), has announced a Christmas Day boycott of Facebook and the...

Toshiba Unveils Device for Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Probe

Toshiba Unveils Device for Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Probe

Toshiba Corp.’s energy systems unit on Friday unveiled a long telescopic pipe carrying a pan-tilt camera designed to gather crucial...

Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000, Heads for Worst Week Since 2013

Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000, Heads for Worst Week Since 2013

Bitcoin plunged by a quarter to below $12,000 on Friday as investors dumped the cryptocurrency in manic trading after its...

UN Security Council to Vote Friday on Additional North Korea Sanctions

UN Security Council to Vote Friday on Additional North Korea Sanctions

The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Friday on another round of targeted sanctions aimed at further restricting North...

Papa John’s Founder Out as CEO, Weeks After NFL Comments

Papa John’s Founder Out as CEO, Weeks After NFL Comments

Papa John’s founder John Schnatter will step down as CEO next month, about two months after he publicly criticized the...

Russia’s Globex Bank Says Hackers Targeted Its SWIFT Computers

Russia’s Globex Bank Says Hackers Targeted Its SWIFT Computers

Hackers tried to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system,...

Apple Acknowledges Taking Action to Slow Down Older iPhones

Apple Acknowledges Taking Action to Slow Down Older iPhones

Apple, the American multi-national technology company, has acknowledged it has taken action that slows the performance of its older iPhones....

A Shoe James Bond Would Be Proud Of

A Shoe James Bond Would Be Proud Of

For every person who just loves James Bond, it’s the perfect gift. A very nice, stylish pair of shoes, that...