Internet Access Booming in Least Developed Countries

Internet Access Booming in Least Developed Countries

The International Telecommunication Union reports hundreds of millions of people in the world’s poorest countries now have access to the...

Silicon Valley Moms Ease Child-care Shortage With Technology

Silicon Valley Moms Ease Child-care Shortage With Technology

The high cost of living makes finding affordable child care a challenge in Silicon Valley. Three moms have founded the...

Touching Objects in Virtual Reality Is Now Possible

Touching Objects in Virtual Reality Is Now Possible

Virtual reality allows the user to enter a different world through sight and sound. Several researchers and companies are adding...

Trump Administration Prepares Flurry of Trade Moves

Trump Administration Prepares Flurry of Trade Moves

The Trump administration is set to announce a raft of trade decisions over the next months, ranging from curbs on...

Europe’s Recovery Rolls On — And So Does European Central Bank Stimulus

Europe’s Recovery Rolls On — And So Does European Central Bank Stimulus

Europe’s economy is on a roll — raising the question of exactly when the European Central Bank will end its...

Winners, Losers of Trump’s Solar Panel Tariff

Winners, Losers of Trump’s Solar Panel Tariff

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a steep tariff on imported solar panels, a move billed as a...

NAFTA Negotiators Open Key Round of Talks; Trump Cites Progress

NAFTA Negotiators Open Key Round of Talks; Trump Cites Progress

U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials opened a key round of negotiations to modernize NAFTA on Tuesday as President Donald Trump,...

Trump Move to Tax Some Imports Creates Its Own Risks for US

Trump Move to Tax Some Imports Creates Its Own Risks for US

President Donald Trump’s move Tuesday to tax imported solar cells and washing machines is meant to make good on his...

Senate Confirms Powell as Next US Fed Chair

Senate Confirms Powell as Next US Fed Chair

The Senate on Tuesday approved President Donald Trump’s selection of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal...

China Online Quiz Craze Lures Prize Seekers, Tech Giants

China Online Quiz Craze Lures Prize Seekers, Tech Giants

It seems like a game everyone wins: Some of China’s biggest tech companies, looking to hook in new consumers, are...

Virtual Reality Tech Makes Gaming a Full Body Experience

Virtual Reality Tech Makes Gaming a Full Body Experience

There’s little doubt that virtual reality is likely to be the future of video gaming. Now, a Russian company in...

US Auto Parts Firms Urge NAFTA Compromise to Cover Engineering Work

US Auto Parts Firms Urge NAFTA Compromise to Cover Engineering Work

A trade group representing U.S. auto parts makers on Monday urged the Trump administration to adopt NAFTA automotive rules that...

China Invites Latin America to Take Part in ‘One Belt, One Road’

China Invites Latin America to Take Part in ‘One Belt, One Road’

China invited Latin American and Caribbean countries to join its “One Belt, One Road” initiative on Monday, as part of...

Social Media Has Mixed Effect on Democracies, Says Facebook

Social Media Has Mixed Effect on Democracies, Says Facebook

Facebook took a hard look in the mirror with a post Monday questioning the impact of social media on democracies...

EU Mulls New Link Between Budget, Civic Rights

EU Mulls New Link Between Budget, Civic Rights

The EU’s justice commissioner is working on a proposal that could oblige member states such as Poland, which has clashed...

Amazon Opens Store With No Cashiers, Lines or Registers

Amazon Opens Store With No Cashiers, Lines or Registers

No cashiers, no lines, no registers — this is how Amazon sees the future of in-store shopping. The online retailer...

Facebook Should Pay ‘Trusted’ News Publishers Carriage Fee: Murdoch

Facebook Should Pay ‘Trusted’ News Publishers Carriage Fee: Murdoch

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Monday called on Facebook to pay “trusted” news publishers a carriage fee, similar to the...

US Tests Nuclear Power System to Sustain Astronauts on Mars

US Tests Nuclear Power System to Sustain Astronauts on Mars

Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the...

Move Over Traditional Billboards. Make Way for 3D Holographic Ads

Move Over Traditional Billboards. Make Way for 3D Holographic Ads

Move over traditional billboards. Three-dimensional, slightly hypnotic holograms may soon replace two-dimensional signs and ads. Several companies with this technology...

Traditional Billboards Make Way for 3-D Holographic Ads

Traditional Billboards Make Way for 3-D Holographic Ads

Those two-dimensional billboards that dot the landscape of many cities around the world may soon be replaced — with 3-D...

Australia, Canada Trade Blows over Wine

Australia, Canada Trade Blows over Wine

Australia has filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization that accuses Canada of placing “discriminatory” rules on the...

Iran May Try to Loosen Revolutionary Guard’s Grip on Economy

Iran May Try to Loosen Revolutionary Guard’s Grip on Economy

Iran’s supreme leader has ordered the Revolutionary Guard to loosen its hold on the economy, the country’s defense minister says,...