By acting to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that had been promoted by companies including Nike Inc. and Wal-Mart Inc. as well as family farmers and ranchers, with the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free trade. “Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said after…
The job of stringing together heavy, dirty pipes on oil drillship have been made easy by a robot. And this is not the only way robots are being used in the oil industry. The task of connecting hundreds of segments of drill pipe as they’re shoved through miles of ocean water and oil-bearing rock, a…
France is playing host to the future of transportation technology. It turns out that there are two companies which are in the process of creating Elon Musk’s transportation of the future. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has explored a few routes with cities. The company has now revealed that it will soon set up shop in a…
335 miles is the latest world record for an electric vehicle on a single charge. Tesla has shown that its super luxury EVs are not only blazingly fast but they can traverse huge distances on a single as well. While earlier Tesla beat Faraday Future with a model which focuses on mile range instead of…
The technology could open up new chapters in understanding brain activity and medical diagnosis in realtime. Although Scientists have long suspected that light can create its own conical wakes like the one created by a sonic boom, the problem has always been, if this is so, how would you be able to capture it with…
The development could eventually lead to the discovery of new medicines and “much more”. In a significant development for medical science, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have produced the world’s first stable semi-synthetic organism. While earlier it had created organisms with synthetic DNA letters they however could not keep their artificial base pair in…
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Xi Jinping has been advocating on the basic tenets of globalization while at home China has done everything to infringe on the basics of online privacy of its citizens. With Chinese authorities routinely blocking access to popular sites, including, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the likes, many residents…
The path of leaving the European Union just got a little bit more complicated for the U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Control of the European Parliament, which must approve any Brexit deal, was lost by the Socialist party, already struggling in France, Italy and the Netherlands. Creating the possibility of division that could encumber May’s…
As Europe’s populist right leaders wrestled with how to deal with the new U.S. president, they predicted Donald Trump’s entry into the White House will herald the end of the old way of doing business in the west. While German Chancellor Angela Merkel was trying to reassure her supporters at a meeting in the country’s…
The move comes midst Twitter’s withdrawal from the e-commerce market while it looks to focus on its core products. Google has purchased Twitter’s developer platform which is known as Fabric. Acquired by Twitter in 2014, Fabric is a “a modular mobile platform” that is designed to aid programmers to improve the “stability, distribution, revenue and…
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