Robotic Hand Can Juggle Cube — With Lots of Training

Robotic Hand Can Juggle Cube — With Lots of Training

How long does it take a robotic hand to learn to juggle a cube? About 100 years, give or take....

Tehran: Trump Wrong to Expect Saudis to Cover Loss of Iran Oil Supply

Tehran: Trump Wrong to Expect Saudis to Cover Loss of Iran Oil Supply

Iran said on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump was mistaken to expect Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to compensate...

From Homeless to Employment in Silicon Valley

From Homeless to Employment in Silicon Valley

As tech giants expand in San Francisco, homelessness and job displacement for locals continues to rise. Deana Mitchell explores one...

With Drones and Satellites, India Gets to Know its Slums

With Drones and Satellites, India Gets to Know its Slums

Satellites and drones are driving efforts by Indian states to map informal settlements in order to speed up the process...

50 Years on, McDonald’s and Fast-Food Evolve Around Big Mac

50 Years on, McDonald’s and Fast-Food Evolve Around Big Mac

McDonald’s is fighting to hold onto customers as the Big Mac turns 50, but it isn’t changing the makings of...

Accusations Fly as US Firms Seek to Avoid Trump’s Steel Tariff

Accusations Fly as US Firms Seek to Avoid Trump’s Steel Tariff

U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of...

Lopez Obrador Looks to Tree Planting to Create Mexico Jobs

Lopez Obrador Looks to Tree Planting to Create Mexico Jobs

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he wants to create 400,000 jobs by planting 1 million hectares (2.47 million...

Impact of Trade Tariffs on European Companies

Impact of Trade Tariffs on European Companies

Some European companies are rethinking their strategies to cushion the impact of trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies,...

Taxi Strike Targeting Uber Brings Chaos to Spanish Cities

Taxi Strike Targeting Uber Brings Chaos to Spanish Cities

Spanish taxi drivers blocked major city streets including Barcelona’s Gran Via and Madrid’s Castellana on Monday in a protest to...

NASA Marks 60 Years Since Legal Inception

NASA Marks 60 Years Since Legal Inception

America’s dream of space exploration took its first official step 60 years ago Sunday when President Dwight Eisenhower signed a...

White House Economic Adviser Sees Sustainable US Growth

White House Economic Adviser Sees Sustainable US Growth

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday he believes the 4.1 percent growth the U.S. recorded in the last...

G-20 Ag Ministers Slam Protectionism, Pledge WTO Reforms

G-20 Ag Ministers Slam Protectionism, Pledge WTO Reforms

Agriculture ministers from the G-20 countries criticized protectionism in a joint statement Saturday and vowed to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but...

UK Lawmakers Urge Tougher Facebook Rules

UK Lawmakers Urge Tougher Facebook Rules

The U.K. government should increase oversight of social media like Facebook and election campaigns to protect democracy in the digital...

AP Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims Historic Turnaround

AP Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims Historic Turnaround

President Donald Trump falsely claimed he’s pulled off “an economic turnaround of historic proportions.” Speaking at the White House Friday...

New Speed Record at SpaceX Pod Competition

New Speed Record at SpaceX Pod Competition

A sleek futuristic train that travels through a special tunnel and covers the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Trump Says Economy Numbers Sustainable, But Experts Doubtful

Trump Says Economy Numbers Sustainable, But Experts Doubtful

Friday’s positive numbers on the U.S. economic growth are “very, very sustainable,” according to U.S. President Donald Trump. His comments...

Twitter Reports Drop in Active Users; Share Price Sinks

Twitter Reports Drop in Active Users; Share Price Sinks

Twitter’s share price fell more than 20 percent Friday after the social media giant reported a drop in active users. ...

Facebook Deletes Hundreds of Posts Under German Hate-Speech Law

Facebook Deletes Hundreds of Posts Under German Hate-Speech Law

Facebook said it had deleted hundreds of offensive posts since a law banning online hate speech came into force in...

The Latest: Facebook Market Value Plunges $119 Billion

The Latest: Facebook Market Value Plunges $119 Billion

The Latest on the aftermath of Facebook’s release of user growth and expectations for the company ahead (all times local):...

Court: Starbucks, Others Must Pay Workers for Off-Clock Work

Court: Starbucks, Others Must Pay Workers for Off-Clock Work

Starbucks and other employers in California must pay workers for minutes they routinely spend off the clock on tasks such...

Facebook Shares Sink; Further Growth Drops Expected

Facebook Shares Sink; Further Growth Drops Expected

Social media giant Facebook, which has weathered storms about privacy and data protection, is now looking at cooler growth following a...

Google Launches Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Network in Nigeria

Google Launches Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Network in Nigeria

Google launched a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria on Thursday, part of its effort to increase its presence...