The head of Trump's cybersecurity and foreign privacy policy says the US stand blacklisting Huawei Technologies for security reasons is not related to the ongoing trade war between the two c… Read More

(July 19) Satellite images show that facilities are being prepared for up to 500 US ground troops that are to be sent to Saudi Arabia. The troops are said to be sent in response to tensions… Read More

Netflix lost customers in the US in the second quarter of 2019, and did not add as many subscribers globally as the company had projected. This is the first time it has lost subscribers in t… Read More

Military exercises involving the US and South Korea have long been a source of increased tensions with North Korea. Nevertheless, the US is preparing to hold a new round of the exercises wit… Read More

The Oakland California city council voted unanimously for a ban on city agencies using facial recognition technology. Oakland is the third city to pass such legislation after neighboring San… Read More

(July 17) The Trump administration has informed the US Congress that it intends to divert $40 million in humanitarian aid for Central American countries and give it to the Venezuelan opposit… Read More

(July 16)Houthi and Saudi representatives have within the last 48 hours reached an agreement on board a UN ship in the Red Sea, according to UN officials. The deal would see the ceasefire at… Read More

Mainstream news coverage of foreign government influence on US elections has been extensive since information first came to light about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.Pol… Read More

Sean O'Kane reviews Harley-Davidson's first electric motorcycle on the Verge. He drove the LiveWire through parts of the Formula E, the electric bike race circuit in Brooklyn, New York. O'Ka… Read More

(July 13) Last May US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ordered a partial evacuation of diplomats from the huge US embassy in Iraq as tensions escalated with Iran. Now, several State Departmen… Read More

A majority of both US veterans and the US general public agree that the US wars in Iraq as well as Afghanistan were not worth fighting, Similar views are held about the US military campaign… Read More

Amazon announced plans to invest more than $700 million to retrain workers across the US so they can work in skilled technical and non-technical roles in its corporate offices, tech hubs, fu… Read More

A US Senate bill would place restrictions on visas for members of the Saudi royal family until they improve their human rights record. The bill also contains some restrictions on arms sales… Read More

France plans to charge an "ecotax" on almost all air travel starting next year. The new tax is expected to bring in approximately $200 million a year. The funds could be used for less pollut… Read More

(July 9)As the US plans to withdraw some of their troops from Syria, US officials would like Germany to send troops to replace them. However, yesterday Germany announced it would not send an… Read More

(July8) Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the company will most likely start to retrofit its new, more powerful full self-driving chip into older Tesla vehicles near the end of 2019.The new FSD chi… Read More

Recently Donald Trump became the first US president to ever set foot on North Korean soil and greeted Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader. The two together stepped onto South Korean soil and… Read More

Samsung Electronics, South Korea's largest business saw its quarterly profit more than cut in half after a world-wide industry downturn plus trade tensions cut demand both for its chips and… Read More

The market research firm TrendForce indicates that falling prices of the large 65 inch TVs have made them the most popular choice of American consumers for their living rooms. 1 of 2&nb&hell…Read More

Jaguar Land Rover's second electric car will be a new version of its existing XJ sedan. The plan to make the car was announced as part of a one billion pound ($1.25 billion) investment the c… Read More

Toyota will begin testing a solar roof on its plug-in hybrid Prius that it claims can add as much as 44.5 kilometers of range to the car in one day. 1 of 2 The solar roof panelThe… Read More

While the US had only 300 electric buses in the entire country, last year China had a total of 421,000. The global fleet of electric buses grew 32 percent in 2018.China's electric bus fleetB… Read More

(July 4)The North Korean mission to the UN issued a statement yesterday critical of the Trump administration, claiming that while the US was publicly suggesting dialogue with the North, the… Read More

The US makes up only four percent of the global population yet it produces 12 percent of the world's trash. This is a larger percent per person than either India or China. 1 of 4 T… Read More

Waymo to join California's autonomous vehicle passenger programLISTEN | PRINTBY KEN HANLY     JUL 3, 2019 IN TECHNOLOGYGoogle parent company Alphabet's dri… Read More

(July 3) Trump said Monday that he would like to have a complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan but wants to leave a "strong intelligence" there a number of intelligence officers. He… Read More

(July 2)Yesterday John Bolton tweeted angrily condemning a New York Times report that claimed that the Trump administration might seek a compromise with North Korea that would involve a free… Read More

All new model electric vehicles (EVs) in the European Union are now required to make artificial noise under certain conditions. Acoustic Vehicle Alerts Systems (AVAS) will be mandatory on al… Read More

The US has deployed F-22 stealth jets to Qatar for the first time. The US military says it is building up its forces amid increasing tensions with Iran.The US announcementThe US Central Comm… Read More

(June 30)UK Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt claimed the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force a rapid response unit has reached a new scale as the British Navy held its largest drills in th… Read More

The US special envoy to Iran Brian Hook spent the last week spreading the idea that Iran was a threat to the US and the world. Now, Hook is threatening other nations directly.Choose to do bu… Read More

US President Donald Trump met with Xi Jinping the Chinese president as the G20 Summit in Japan wrapped up today. Trump announced after the meeting that the two countries would resume trade t… Read More

(June 28) Tariffs imposed by Trump threaten to drive the last remaining television assembly plant in the US out of business. Element Electronics based in South Carolina assembles TVs for Wal… Read More

(June 27) The US Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) which has been investigating the grounded 737 Max after two disastrous crashes that were caused by its on board systems has now dis… Read More

(June 27) NATO demands that Russia destroy all of its 9k729 cruise missiles or face unspecified repercussions. Officials admit that they do not expect Russia to comply with NATO demands.NATO… Read More

It is now more than two decades since the Universal Serial Bus (USB) came into use. This ushered in an era in which there was a common standard for connecting peripheral devices to personal… Read More

(June 25)On Friday Greg Abbott the governor of Texas announced that he will be sending another 1,000 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border. Abbott accused the US government of not ta… Read More

(June24)The opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won the election for mayor of Istanbul on Sunday according to unofficial results. Tayyip Erdogan suffered a serious defeat but nevertheless ha… Read More

(June 24)Trump claims the issue if Jamal Khashoggi's murder never came up during his recent talk with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even though it has been a major topic in the US C… Read More

(June 23)Although Iran recently shot down a US Global Hawk surveillance plane, they reportedly did not fire at another US military plane with 35 aboard that the Revolutionary Guard's air def… Read More

Asian rice farmers for centuries used ducks as an alternative to pesticides in controlling weeds in their rice fields. The ducks paddled around flooded fields tearing up weeds, eating insect… Read More

(June 22) Mainstream US media is for the most part united in criticism of Trump's decision to call off planned attacks on Iran in response to the downing of a US drone.In an article in … Read More

(June 21) Last Thursday Iran shot down a US RQ-4 Global Hawk drone that it claimed was on a spy mission over its territory. The US, on the other hand, claimed the drone was in international… Read More

(June 21)The US Senate hopes that there will be a quick rubber stamping of the huge National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) military spending bill that is now on hold until next week.Senat… Read More

In a letter to US trade representative Robert Lighthizer Apple claims that the Trump administration tariffs could both lower the company's economic output and put it at a disadvantage especi… Read More

(June 20)Tuesday evening an amendment to a bill designed to restrain domestic surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was defeated in the US House… Read More

(June 19)Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur found in a thorough and quite critical report that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing carried out… Read More

(June 19)Universal Music Group and YouTube are cooperating to remaster many iconic music videos. They will be changed to HD from standard definition videos.=== 1 of 2 Many well-kno… Read More

(June 19)In a sudden change of positions Patrick Shanahan, the acting Defense Secretary announced that he would be withdrawing from consideration as a permanent Secretary.Shanahan withdraws… Read More

(June 18) Iran claimed on Monday that it had exposed a large cyber espionage network that it alleges was run by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and several US spies had been arreste… Read More

Reports claim that the Lenin Moreno administration of Ecuador has agreed that US military planes can operate from an airport in the Galapagos Islands.Ecuador's defence minister said to have… Read More

(June 17) Last weekend, the New York Times broke a story about US cyberattacks on Russia particularly against their electrical grid. The report suggests the US has placed massive malware acr… Read More

Transportation network Lyft Inc. is introducing its own special model of scooter for its scooter-sharing business. The scooter is mean to be more durable, has a longer battery life and bike… Read More

(June 15) The owner of the Kokuka Outrageous the Japanese tanker attacked last Thursday contradicted US claims about the incident. US Central Command claimed the two tankers were hit with li… Read More

The full hearing and decision on the case to extradite Julian Assange to the United States will not happen until after February 24 of next year or the end of February 2020 at the earliest.Th… Read More

(June 14)US and Russian relations have soured in recent years. The Obama administration pared back ties. While Trump appears to be personally friendly to Putin and wanted to improve relation… Read More

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Beyond Meat Ethan Brown discussed the evolution of plant-based burgers with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel just days before the product was upgraded.The i… Read More

- For a long time now, lenders have given African American and Latino families fewer loans and at inferior terms than white borrowers in similar circumstances. One might think that the use o… Read More

(June 13) For a second time in less than a month US airstrikes carried out in "self defense" turned out to be actually attacking Afghan security forces. The strike yesterday ended up wiping… Read More

(June 12)The US Dept. of Justice has formally submitted a request to extradite Julian Assange from the UK. This follows on an earlier provisional request that the UK retain Assange until thi… Read More

(June 12) Huawei has postponed indefinitely the release of a new laptop that uses Windows as an OS according to the Windows laptop consumer CEO Richard Yu.The new laptop was set to be announ… Read More

(June 11) For the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year the browser Opera has come up with what it terms the "world's first gaming browser".Those serious about customizing every eleme… Read More

(June 10) Democrats on the House Armed Service Committee are attempting to stop the Trump administration from detaining any new terror suspects at the prison facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba… Read More

(June 7)Earlier in the week Microsoft removed a database of more than ten million faces. The database was used to test and train facial recognition algorithms. The database was known as MS C… Read More

(June 6) The gloom surrounding the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei was somewhat dispelled this week as the company has signed a 5G development deal with MTS Russia's largest mobile o… Read More

For more than half a century Cuba has suffered from a US embargo that prevents the export of most goods from the US and also restricted tourism until easing of restrictions on Americans visi… Read More

The Swedish furniture giant Ikea is introducing a new furniture line called Rogran that is being developed in cooperation with the US furniture startup Ori Living.RognanAs cities boom living… Read More

On Friday US-led coalition warplanes destroyed three oil tankers that were traveling through Syrian Kurdish-controlled territory. The attack killed at least four people. 1 of 2 Det… Read More

(May 31) The trade war between China and the United States appears about to intensify soon, as China is taking steps to retaliated for such measures as the ban on doing business with its tel… Read More

(May 31) The US Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, has claimed that the US will respond by military force if any of its interests are attacked by Iran.US sends more forces to the G… Read More

Norway claimed some unspecified progress may have been made in negotiations between the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaido the self-declared interim president and leader… Read More

Parrot company is one of six companies chosen by the US Dept. of Defense to manufacture short-range reconnaissance aircraft for the US military. 1 of 3 Chinese companies left out o… Read More

(May 28)Last Thursday the US Army tweeted a simple question "How has serving impacted you?" As Memorial Day was the following Monday perhaps the Army's social media hoped that many replies w… Read More

(May 27) Asus will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with a special edition laptop, Asus ZenBook Edition 30. It has a white leather lid cover and an 18-karat rose gold logo. Otherwise, the… Read More

Amazon can't seem to decide whether it wants to have mini-stores within large shopping malls. Early this year the company decided to close the many kiosks it had in malls but a few new mini… Read More

(May 25) In a move that some members of the US Congress had predicted earlier this week, President Trump has declared a national emergency in order to circumvent Congressional restrictions o… Read More

(May 25) Cryptopia Limited, a New Zealand firm which operated a cryptocurrency exchange with over 300,000 accounts from around the globe has filed for US bankruptcy protect after hackers man… Read More

(May 24) The negative effects of the US ban on Huawei technology are growing worse as the SD Association, the trade group that sets standardized specs for SD and micro-SD cards, has barred H… Read More

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution that demanded the UK hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius within six months. Britain separated the Indian Ocean Islands from Mauritius in 196… Read More

DJI drone makers will fit all of the drones it now offers, with sensors that can detect airplanes and helicopters. The sensors can receive the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS… Read More

Huawei is planning to release smartphones and tablets with its own operating system later this year. Huawei has only 90 days before its devices will no longer have access to new software upd… Read More

Carlos Vecchio recognized by the US as the de facto ambassador from Venezuela to the US from the US-supported coup led by Juan Guaido met yesterday with top officials from both the Pentagon… Read More

After a US government order that will limit or end trade with any foreign company that is regarded as a security risk Google (Alphabet) cut off Huawei's license to use Android proprietary ap… Read More

(May20) Thamer Ghadhban, Iraq's Minister of OIl, in a statement on Sunday was very critical of Exxon Mobil's decision to evacuate foreign staff from West Qurna 1 oil field. 1 of 2 … Read More

(May 19)Following the US government's crackdown on Chinese technology companies particularly Huawei, Google (Alphabet) has cut off Huawei's Android licence. This will deal one more blow to t… Read More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has put out a solicitation for an autonomous aircraft that would be used to rescue pilots and other people from downed aircraft in dangerous situations.&nbs&hell…Read More

(May 18)After one report claims that US airstrikes in the Helmand Province hit the 601 highway battalion of the Afghan police killing 17 and wounding 11, the US is trying to blame the Afghan… Read More

Wing, owned by Alphabet (Google) will start a drone delivery service in Helsinki the Finnish capital next month. Delivery will be to people in the Vuosaari district the most populous area of… Read More

(May 17)There is much discussion in the news about the US sending more forces to the Middle East to counter some unspecified threat to the US from Iran. This is escalating tensions between t… Read More

Grumpy Cat who was famous on the Internet, died this week of complications from a urinary tract infection. She was just a little more than seven years old.Grumpy's owners announced Grum… Read More

US president Donald Trump is continuing to defend his trade war with China that is having a very disruptive effect on the world economy including US stocks as tariffs are raised and put on m… Read More

Tesla is updating software earlier than planned to all Model S and Model X vehicles after two recent high profile battery files. Tesla says it is doing this out of an abundance of caution.Ch… Read More

(May 14)Assange's lawyers said yesterday that Ecuador will turn over all the possessions Assange left in the Ecuadorean embassy when he was arrested in London.Police can search Assange's roo… Read More

Hyundai and sister company Kia announced that they are investing 80 million euros (about $90 million US) in Croatian electric hypercar startup Rimac.The Korean automakers are anxious to… Read More

(May 13) A pair of Saudi oil tankers have been reported to have been sabotaged off the coast of the UAE. However, what happened is not at all clear.There has been a US military buildup in th… Read More

Tenants in a New York City apartment block have been successful in forcing their landlord to provide them a physical key after the landlord had installed a smart lock on the lobby door.A phy… Read More

(May 10) The US hopes that the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that is supported by the US will continue to control a large area of Syria.SDF controls huge amounts of territory outsid… Read More

(May 9)At the US Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee yesterday Gen. Joe Dunford insisted that he thought that no one wanted more to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan than himself. H… Read More

Germany has a trial project that is using electrified cables to recharge the batteries in hybrid trucks as they are driving. The cable system called the eHighway was developed by Siemens and… Read More

(May 8) Lyft customers in the Phoenix Arizona area will soon be able to hail a Waymo self-driving minivan for a ride, the company announced yesterday. This is the culmination of a partnershi… Read More