world news 04/12/2018 Amid booming economy, companies boost their ad spending — for now Midterm political campaigns spent an unprecedented $4 billion in 2018, a 43 percent jump since the last election cycle.
world news 04/12/2018 Tumblr to ban all adult content Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio painted the ban as a move towards a "better, more positive Tumblr" in a blog post Monday.
world news 04/12/2018 CIMON the European space robot cops an attitude in first test run There are still a few bugs in the system — among them the 11-pound robot's waspish personality.
world news 03/12/2018 Lawmakers demand answers on Amazon facial recognition tech Their questions center on potential privacy threats and whether the software is being marketed to law enforcement without adequate precautions.
world news 02/12/2018 NASA spacecraft is poised for long-anticipated rendezvous with asteroid It's the next step in the space agency's mission to bring a bit of an asteroid back to Earth.
world news 30/11/2018 Ex-manager says Facebook 'has a black people problem' "Racial discrimination at Facebook is real," wrote Mark Luckie, a former manager at the social networking giant.
world news 30/11/2018 Floyd Mayweather Jr., DJ Khaled to pay big penalties in cryptocurrency promotions The Securities and Exchange Commission said the charges were the first it has ever brought involving initial coin offerings.
China 29/11/2018 Scientific community outraged at Chinese scientist's gene editing baby claims The scientific community is outraged by the Chinese scientist's baby gene editing claims, questioning the ethics and safety of his work.
world news 29/11/2018 World's first brick made of urine requires a lot of it "Bio-bricks" may sound icky, but scientists say they offer crucial advantages over ordinary clay bricks.
world news 29/11/2018 Facebook rolls out its local news 'Today In' feature to more than 400 U.S. cities The dedicated section collects and aggregates relevant stories for local communities in a packaged form in the user's NewsFeed.
world news 29/11/2018 How did Microsoft just overtake Apple as the world's most valuable company? Growth in Microsoft's cloud business was up 76 percent in first quarter earnings for 2019.
world news 29/11/2018 U.K. cybersecurity agency mounts transparency push The goal is to prevent cyberattacks like "WannaCry," which paralyzed computer systems around the world in May 2017.
world news 29/11/2018 Chinese researcher is "proud" of gene-editing twins "Lulu and Nana were born normal and healthy," researcher He Jiankui said.
world news 29/11/2018 Twitter says account with 1 million followers was Putin impostor Twitter suspended the account, saying it had received a report from Russian officials about it.
world news 28/11/2018 Google employees call for company to end work on China search engine Google employees stated in an open letter that they no longer believed the company was "willing to place its values above its profits."
world news 28/11/2018 NASA's InSight lander is safely on Mars. What happens now? The successful touch-down marks the beginning of the next phase of the two-year, $850-million mission.
world news 27/11/2018 Scientist's gene-editing experiment sparks worry, outrage Some researchers say it's time to allow gene editing, with careful regulation.
world news 26/11/2018 Sexual harassment goes high tech with AirDrop Without the proper settings, iPhone users can receive lewd and threatening messages from strangers, which can be triggering for survivors of sexual assault.
world news 26/11/2018 Mars InSight's landing team leader is all 'nerves and excitement' ahead of risky touchdown "We've done just about everything we can to make sure we're successful."
world news 26/11/2018 U.K. parliament seizes documents as part of Facebook inquiry The seizure of the documents comes after Mark Zuckerberg declined to appear in London on Tuesday before officials investigating disinformation and election interference.
