No one knows what the Trump administration has planned for U.S. foreign aid programs and other global initiatives that fight poverty and disease. There are some topics that Donald Trump has not addressed. Global advocacy groups such as the ONE Campaign have tried to get Trump to share his ideas ... Read More »
It said that advances in the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, energy storage and quantum computing among others technologies “may transform the lives of everyone”. “These transformations wrought by these and other technological developments may mean that some businesses and products could become obsolete relatively quickly. “Successor businesses ... Read More »
Oil output from Texas, the No. 1 producer in the country, for August, the last full month for which data are available, was higher than last year, data show. The Railroad Commission of Texas, the state energy regulator, reported preliminary production of crude oil averaged 2.4 million barrels per day, ... Read More »
Male fertility comes down to one thing in many cases: sperm motility. If they’re not good swimmers, fertility can be an issue, reports the Independent. But researchers at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK are reporting (though not yet in a peer-reviewed scientific journal) that they may have hit ... Read More »
Between Major League Baseball playoff games and the occasional presidential debate, it’s sometimes hard to get off the couch. So hats off to home buyers and all those hard-working real estate agents who continue to keep the housing market humming along. This week’s offerings include a Dodgers pitcher, a billionaire, ... Read More »
T he five-story house at 2509 Foxhall Rd. NW was built for throwing parties. With three kitchens, a wine cellar, an elevator and an infinity pool, it was recently the French ambassador’s temporary residence. You can still spot the iron security gates and the house number sign painted in the ... Read More »
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KOLKATA: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will start moving petroleum goods to Tripura via Bangladesh from Friday. The first convoy of tank trucks will be flagged-off from IOCL’s Guwahati terminal by executive director Dipankar Roy. This convoy of seven tank trucks will carry 84,000 litres of diesel and kerosene to Tripura ... Read More »
Hundreds of tonnes of gold could be recovered from old electronic devices such as smartphones, TV sets and computers each year, thanks to a simple chemical method developed by researchers. Current methods for extracting gold from old gadgets are inefficient and can be hazardous to health, as they often use ... Read More »
The dramatic revelation by The Australian that it had obtained access to over 22,400 pages of sensitive data pertaining to the French designed Scorpene class submarine currently being built in India is now a week old. In the intervening period the initial turbulence created by this WikiLeaks like data-dump is ... Read More »
To keep a hawk’s eye on the long porous border with Pakistan and thwart incursions in the Northeast by the Chinese PLA, India may soon get pilotless Predator XP drones used by the US Navy. India has sought from the US 100 latest unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), both armed and ... Read More »
Reuben Yonatan has a problem with the kind of business jargon we’ve all gotten used to hearing (and maybe even saying). “Most buzzwords are overused, clichéd, and unclear,” says Yonatan, CEO of tech communications advisory firm GetVoIP. Far from making people sound professional, these hackneyed expressions have “become go-to substitutes ... Read More »
