Many experts and campaigners are calling for a ban on "killer robots". Autonomous, artificial intelligence powered guns, planes, tanks and ships could fight future wars without being subject… Read More

Saudi human rights activists are warning against the possible beheading of Israa al-Ghomgham by the government. Israa has been provisionally sentenced to death by a Ryadh court.Six defendant… Read More

For almost 120 years now Morgan Motor Company has been making three-wheeled and four-wheeled cars in a small factory in western England in Malvern Link southwest of Birmingham.Morgan Motor C… Read More

Lexar, a well-known name in digital storage, decided to cease operation in 2017. Yet according to an announcement recently in Camerajabber the company is returning to the storage business an… Read More

The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has recently filed for a patent. The patent is for a new system that would enable online users to make their bitcoin payments more securely.+ Add Im… Read More

Russia said last Monday that it favors bilateral trade with all countries using their national currencies rather than the US dollar. However, Russian authorities say the idea needed more wor… Read More

For the week ended August 5, the U.S. consumer comfort sentiment index rose to a 17-year high. The rise was sparked by more optimistic views of the U.S. economy and personal finance.Highligh… Read More

Airbus' Zephyr S HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite) took off in Arizona on July 11th. It stayed aloft 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes to be exact. A few minutes short of the 26 days. The… Read More

The push to produce more electric cars (EVs) in China has resulted in literally hundreds of startups trying to cash in on the EV revolution but according to NIO Capital only 1 percent will s… Read More

Congress has acted to increase national security controls over merger and acquisition transactions involving China particularly with respect to technology firms. The Trump administration is… Read More

The US Democratic National Committee (DNC) is warning all Democrats to avoid using any Huawei or ZTE devices, after it learned that one of its associated organizations was contemplating buyi… Read More

Acer unveiled its new Chrome OS notebooks last May. It has finally announced when the computers will be on the market and how much they will cost.Chromebook 13 and Chromebook Spin 13The two… Read More

Starbucks appears to be jumping on the bitcoin bandwagon and could give bitcoin a needed boost as its price is dropping of late. A new digital platform will allow customers to use bitcoin an… Read More

Starbucks joins with Alibaba Group to deliver its coffee in Chinese cities beginning this fall. The company hopes the move will revive the growth of sales in its second largest market where… Read More

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac, McDonald's is distributing a five-piece set of tokens that are both redeemable and no doubt collectible.While Sputnik in a headlin… Read More

In quarter two of this year Chinese manufacturer Huawei moved into second place overtaking Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments according to data from IDC, Canalys, and Strategic Analytic… Read More

The world's largest crypto exchange based on volume, Binance, has bought the wallet company Trust Wallet in its first acquisition. The company confirmed to TechCrunch the purchase was based… Read More

A new study by the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that a large percentage of Americans have a favorable attitude to medical marijuana even though the study claims that the beliefs are not… Read More

Toyota Motor Company is increasing its investment in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV). It is designing lower-cost, mass-market passenger cars and sport utility vehicles and even pushing the… Read More

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tested Amazon's facial recognition system by scanning all 535 members of the US Congress against 25,000 mugshots public mugshots. The test generated… Read More

Between 1985 and 2018 the average statutory global tax rate has fallen by more than half from 49 percent to just 24 percent. A main cause of this decline is profit shifting.Profit shiftingTh… Read More

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) announced that they are rolling back regulations that are outlined in the Endangered Species Act (E… Read More

The state of New York is considering whether it should legalize recreational marijuana as a new report comes out in favor of such a move. 1 of 2 New York state Governor Andrew Cuom… Read More

A U.K. auto group survey shows that half the young drivers aged 25 to 34 in the U.K. said they would like to own an electric car (EV) — although they are put off by what they consider… Read More

According to Electrek and the Wall Street Journal Tesla has raised the price of its cars in China because of the country's retaliatory tariffs directed against the U.S. as a trade war betwee… Read More

July 9)The recent decision by Twitter to suspend more than one million accounts per day caused fears that the number of monthly active users will fall. This has had a negative effect on the… Read More

n just the last two months alone Twitter has suspended 70 million accounts. This is part of a crackdown on malicious activity by users on the Twitter platform.This information is contained i… Read More

Seagate the well known manufacturer of hard drives , external hard drives, and other storage devices has expanded into the growing new Solid State Drive SSD business.The expansion shows an i… Read More

Ben Wallace, the U.K. security minister, has claimed that Russia is responsible for the Novichok poisoning of a second couple in Amesbury near Salisbury — where ex-spy Sergei Skripal w… Read More

(July 3) In June, sales were stronger for top US auto manufacturers. Consumers continued to buy sport utility vehicles and trucks in larger numbers. So far there seems to be no negative reac… Read More

(July 2) On Friday June 29th the price of XRP, the third largest cryptocoin by market cap, fell below $0.43 hitting a new low for this year. It fell to $0.424 on the Bitfinex exchange at 13:… Read More

(July 1)A cryptic message posted this Friday on a website that is possibly linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the person who released the original white paper on Bitcoin in 2008 in… Read More

 A new poll by Nanos Research shows a sharp drop in household sentiment two weeks after Trudeau and Trump had a tiff after a G7 summit.+ Add ImageCanadian consumer confidence at lo… Read More

Serial Box, a startup publisher, decided a couple of years ago to publish stories in a somewhat different way. It would take a long story and divide it into shorter more manageable stories w… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that police are required to obtain a search warrant before they can gain information to any individual's cell phone location.Police were routinely gett… Read More

The Supreme Court has ruled that US states can require online sellers to collect sales tax. However, the ruling could mean that the sellers need to collect sales taxes not just for their own… Read More

Workers at Amazon are demanding that the company cease selling facial recognition software to the U.S. government as it would be contributing tools that violate human rights. 1 of 2&nbs&hell…Read More

(June 21) The Chinese government-controlled Global Times tabloid said that China could hit back at Dow Jones listed U.S. firms should the U.S. keep exacerbating tensions over trade.Trump thr… Read More

Facebook has decided to allow administrators of some groups to begin charging $4.99 to $29.99 a month for exclusive memberships. The company made the announcement in a blog post indicating i… Read More

Starbucks is planning to speed up its closings of US stores next year as sales growth is cooling. Usual rate of closings is 50 stores a year but next year it will close 150 under-performing… Read More

Artificial Intelligence can use data from health records to predict with considerable accuracy when a patient will die. Such information can have a positive use and end up saving lives.Devel… Read More

A package containing a suspicious substance and death threats was sent to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was one of at least two Canadian officials… Read More

An open letter sent by more than 400 Washington Post employees to CEO Jeff Bezos petitioned for fair pay, benefits, and job security. It also criticized present practices calling them shocki… Read More

While earlier it appeared that the US Securities and Exchange Commission would treat cryptocurrencies as securities it now seems as if initial coin offerings (ICOs) will be considered securi… Read More

Mozilla, the free software group behind the browser Firefox is envisioning an entirely different browser that would be activated and operate by voice rather than keyboard, touch pad, mouse… Read More

The Skripal poisoning narrative began over 3 months ago. Both Yulia Skripal a Russian citizen and her father Sergei Skripal a former Russian double agent were found unconscious on a park ben… Read More

Ford has been using the city of Miami as a site to test its self-driving vehicles since earlier this year. Recently the company joined forces with Postmates to research how people will react… Read More

The Michigan Central Station has been for some time a symbol of Detroit's decline but now will be part of Ford's aim to change the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit into the automotive compan… Read More

Google has stopped running any ads in Washington state that are related to ballot measures or state and local elections. The company said it will notify any advertisers affected and update i… Read More

Facebook is looking for one English and one Spanish speaker who were originally described as a "news credibility specialist" but this was changed to "news publisher specialist". Whatever the… Read More

Multinational Chinese electronics company TCL will release the new BlackBerry Key 2 this Thursday, June 7th in New York. The new phone appears to be a refined version of the earlier BlackBer… Read More

Some bright young minds in financial establishment firms are moving to the cryptocurrency area after already making enough money in the crypto market in their spare time to leave their prese… Read More

Facebook's new rules requiring verification for ads regarded as political are causing serious problems for advertisers as their ads are taken down until the accounts are verified as politica… Read More

A tentative deal has been reached to bring both the port of Churchill and the rail line from the port on Hudson's Bay south to the Pas back under Canadian ownership after the US company Omni… Read More

(May 29) Fnance minister Bill Morneau announced that the Canadian government has bought the Trans Mountain pipeline system and expansion project (TMEP) for $4.5 billion CAD ($3.46 US), but c… Read More

Kiwi robots that deliver food are quite common on the University of California Berkeley campus. The co-founder of Kiwi robots and CEO, Felipe Chavez Cortes was anxious to have his robots tes… Read More

Google Pay users who add their PayPal details to their Google Pay accounts will now be able to pay their bills and purchases using PayPal. The integration will cover any app such such as Gma… Read More

(May 25) Yulia Skripal, the daughter of Sergei Skripal an ex-double agent, says that both were lucky to have survived an assassination attack on March 4th in Salisbury in the United Kingdom… Read More

After announcing that it will become more aggressive in combating trolls on its service, it appears it has gone too far and is suspending accounts merely because users tweets are in Cyrillic… Read More

(May 22)Bob Sliwa left from San Diego last Thursday night in a carbon-fiber-bodied, diesel powered semi truck. He is attempting to set a record for fuel economy for big trucks by the time he… Read More

(May 21) At the end of the third week of May the overall cryptocoin market was deep in the red. The total market capitalization of the market dropped 14.48 percent to $366 billion over the l… Read More

Employees finally got some answers this week on how Google's new Duplex human sounding robot will work. It will identify itself at the beginning of the conversation as a Google assistant rob… Read More

According to the Chinese Global Public Chain Assessment Index released on May18, Ethereum is the number one blockchain. Bitcoin was only 13th.Global Public Chain AssessmentThe new index&nbsp&hell…Read More

(May 18)Two months after being poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury UK, 66-year old Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy, was discharged from the Salisbury hospital on Friday.Sergei was fo… Read More

As with rival electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla, after making some progress in the EV market with the Nissan Leaf, Nissan is now setting sights on the home with batteries and solar panels to… Read More

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, is reaching out to help Wall Street type institutional giants become more comfortable using its platform to invest in cryptocurrencies.Coinbase's custo… Read More

Logitech's new G305 wireless gaming mouse is the latest in a lineup of gaming mice. It brings Logitech's top-of-the-line HERO optical sensor to a less expensive device.At $59.99, the G3… Read More

After 26 years Boston Dynamics is at last preparing to sell one of its many robots. The founder, Marc Raibert claims that the dog-like robot SpotMini is already in pre-production and will be… Read More

After widespread criticisms about the issues raised by Google's new Duplex system uses AI to imitate the human voice to make appointments, the company notes that the system will have disclos… Read More

A report from Alex Heath of Cheddar news service claims that Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency. The company is said to be focused on using the platform to make it easier… Read More

(May 11) South Korea prosecutors have reportedly raided the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the country UPbit. The prosecutors suspect the exchange has been engaged in fraud.According&nbs&hell…Read More

(May 10)Facebook has managed to recoup all of the losses that it had incurred in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.On Thursday Facebook shares hit an intraday high o… Read More

Boeing will reportedly lose up to $20 billion in contracts with Iran due to US president Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. 1 of 3 Two Iranian contract… Read More

The board of Flipkart On Line Services has approved an agreement that will see it sell about three quarters of the company to Walmart Inc. for approximately $15 billion according to people f… Read More

Drive.ai based in California is about to launch a self-driving ride-share service in Texas. Drive said it will offer rides to more than 10,000 people in Level 4 self-driving vehicles. 1… Read More

Sophia, a robot clad in an elegant black dress, appeared at the Ontario Centres of Excellence's Discovery conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. She cracked jokes, talked about h… Read More

In the Consumer Electronics Show (CSE) this January Kia showed its concept Niro Electric Vehicle crossover that had a 238 mile range rivaling the Chevrolet Bolt. 1 of 2 The Niro at… Read More

The huge US-based financial institution, JPMorgan Chase is seeking a patent on a system that would used distributed ledgers, a blockchain system, to facilitate and reconcile financial transa… Read More

(May  5) It is now about three weeks since Yulia Skripal was released from hospital and taken to a "safe place" after her being poisoned along with her father Sergei on March 4th in Sal… Read More

Susan Wojcicki the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of You Tube claimed that 1.8 billion registered users are watching You Tube videos each month and this does not even include those watching w… Read More

- Loblaws is planning to extend its on line grocery shopping services and also expand home delivery services. The company says that it plans to "blanket the country" with online grocery serv… Read More

CoinMarketCap has become a prime source for tracking the prices, market caps and trading volumes of cryptocurrencies since it began operation last year.CoinMarketCap has huge trafficAlexa,&n&hell…Read More

A recent Chinese fleet review shows that during the last four years, China has launched naval vessels with a total tonnage equal to many of the world's major established naval powers.An earl… Read More

McDonald's Corp exceeded analysts' forecasts both for revenue and profits in a report on Monday as it clocked higher sales in foreign markets and in the US customers spent more at its outlet… Read More

Amazon's first quarter earnings showed that sales were a huge $51 billion up nearly 43 percent year over year. The net profit was $1.6 billion.Amazon the US-based electronic , commerce… Read More

Amazon now is offering home security services through a new portal. There are an array of smart security packages, including items such as entryway sensors, sirens, and a video doorbell all… Read More

Bitcoin cash(BCH) is facing a major software upgrade and a hard fork on May 15 that should help the network process many more transactions. The update was announced last November,A bitcoin h… Read More

(April 28)It is over two weeks since Yulia Skripal was released from hospital and reportedly taken to a safe place. There have been no further reports on her condition or on that of her fath… Read More

Because of the time spent in travel to important air hubs then waiting in line to pass security, board and then waiting for takeoff, and finally traveling from the airport at the destination… Read More

San Franciso-based Ripple Inc. announces a huge increase in sales of its coin XRP, or ripple, during the last quarter. It sold $167.7 million worth of XRP during the first three months of th… Read More

China's National Energy Administration announced on April 24 that the country had installed 9.65 gigawatts (GW) of new solar photovoltaics (PV) capacity which is up 22 percent on the same pe… Read More

(April 26)Regular negotiations for NAFTA stopped some time ago to be replaced by negotiations between ministers from the US, Mexico and Canada. A handful of high placed politicians are worki… Read More

Walmart will partner with delivery service DoorDash to provide its online grocery delivery service. The service will begin in Atlanta Georgia but the company hopes it will expand throughout… Read More

Netflix Inc. the huge US-based entertainment company provides streaming media, video on demand and now produces films and TV. The firm will sell $1.5 billion of bonds the company said in a s… Read More

The Wikileaks Shop an onlne store selling merchandise for the whistleblower site has reportedly has its account closed by Coinbase the San Francisco-based cryptocoin exchange for violation o… Read More

The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan may cut hundreds of jobs at its Sunderland plant in the UK. Nissan is Britain's largest car manufacturer.Diesel sales are plummetingDiesel sales have bee… Read More

Qalcomm, the big chip maker for smart phones, has already begun to cut jobs in California. The move appears to be part of a much larger workforce reduction plan that is designed to meet a co… Read More

In 2017 Target began pilot projects of a new service called Drive Up. The service allows customers to place their orders through a Target app. They then pick up their orders at a Target stor… Read More

(April 18Shares of Netflix, the on-demand video streaming service, hit a record high on Tuesday April 17 subsequent to a report that for the fourth straight quarter the service added more su… Read More

Google has decided to expand distribution of a tool used by publishers to deal with those who use ad-blockers. The tool launched a year ago in the United States and a few other markets, is n… Read More