JULY 26, 2019
An exhibition in Tel Aviv highlights how cities can use innovative technologies to limit the effects of global warming.
Just a few days ago, the sizzling winds of the "sharav" desert storm swept across Tel Aviv, resulting in record temperatures throughout Israel of up to 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit). With its air conditioning working on...
JULY 26, 2019
Trump vows 'substantial reciprocal action' against France over tax targeting tech giants - Getty Images
President Trump vowed Friday to take "substantial reciprocal action" against France after President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a tax targeting technology giants like Amazon and Google.
"France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies," Trump tweeted. "If anybody taxes...
JULY 26, 2019
The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it is approving T-Mobile's takeover of rival Sprint, clearing a major hurdle to a deal that would merge the nation's third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers.
The companies have agreed to divest Sprint's prepaid businesses, including Boost Mobile, to Dish Network Corp in order to move ahead with the merger, which was announced...
JULY 25, 2019
U.S. business spending on equipment, structures has downshifted from a year ago
Trade tensions likely helped push down U.S. economic growth last quarter to match the slowest pace of Donald Trump’s presidency, with a robust consumer keeping things from looking even worse.
Gross domestic product figures due Friday will likely show business investment weakened, despite getting a late-quarter boost...
JULY 25, 2019
Describing Imran Khan’s statement that about 30,000-40,000 “armed people” who fought in Kashmir or Afghanistan were still in Pakistan as “glaring admission”, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Thursday said it is time for Islamabad to take “credible and irreversible action” against terror groups.
“It is a glaring admission by the Pakistani leadership,” MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said...
JULY 24, 2019
Facebook said its settlement with US regulators would usher in a new era of better data protection practices
US regulators on Wednesday slapped a record $5 billion fine on Facebook for privacy violations in a wide-ranging settlement that calls for revamping privacy controls and oversight at the social network.
The Federal Trade Commission said the penalty was...
JULY 24, 2019
David Carroll, who teaches media design at Parsons, has tried to use British laws to find out what information Cambridge Analytica collected about him. - Netflix
This review of “The Great Hack” is the first article that I’ve felt mildly concerned about emailing to my editors. Why am I even using the internet? Why is Twitter open...
JULY 24, 2019
Rows of farm land near Holly Bluff, Miss., are covered with backwater flooding, in this May 23, 2019 photo. Normally there would be cotton or corn or soybean crops in the rows. U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., sent a letter Wednesday, June 12, 2019 to President Trump to approve the use of temporary pumps in the Yazoo...
JULY 24, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO - A Russian defense contractor accused by the United States of supporting cyber attacks has developed sophisticated software used to spy on smartphones, an American security company said on Wednesday.
St. Petersburg-based Special Technology Center (STC) developed code that has been aimed at a small number of targets, including those interested in a rebel militia in...
JULY 24, 2019
Former special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III is seen during a congressional hearing Wednesday on his investigation of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election. - Matt McClain/Washington Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, in quiet and occasionally halting testimony, warned Congress Tuesday that Russia was attempting to interfere with American...
