I just deactivated my Facebook account. It wasn’t a snap decision, but a culmination of a lot of things that peaked with some of the revelations about how the Russians used the platform to spread targeted ads and widen political divisions in the U.S. during the last presidential election. I also found that the product […]
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One of Europe’s smallest countries now holds claim to being a giant in the space industry. Luxembourg, with a population less than the state of Vermont, now generates nearly 2 percent of its annual gross domestic product from the space industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider. The country’s economy checked in just shy […]
Read moreImagine giving teen smokers the feeling of having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a debilitating disease that results in trouble breathing and a persistent cough. That might seem like the stuff of science fiction, “Black Mirror” even, but a group of engineers and designers in Toronto are building technology to give perfectly healthy people the […]
Read moreSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff once called Keith Block “the best sales executive the enterprise software industry has ever seen.” The remark came in early 2014, six months after Benioff hired Block away from Oracle — where Benioff himself got started — and made him COO. At the time, Benioff said he’d been trying to hire […]
Read moreIt turns out that military veterans are willing to talk about stress. They just haven’t been getting access to the right confidantes and a comfortable setting. Ellie is an example. Her ability to press veteran interview subjects to reveal information about their feelings and mental state worked better than the primary method used by the […]
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin again denied interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections. But Trump declined to say whether he believed the Russian leader. “He says he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the trip to […]
Read moreNorth Korea said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia showed he was a “destroyer” and said he had begged for war on the Korean peninsula. “Trump, during his visit, laid bare his true nature as destroyer of world peace and stability and begged for a nuclear war on the Korean […]
Read moreAlibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, said its Singles Day sales surged past last year’s total just after midday Saturday, hitting a record $18 billion, pointing to a likely giant haul for the world’s biggest shopping event. Once a celebration for China’s lonely hearts, Singles’ Day has become an annual 24-hour extravaganza that exceeds the combined […]
Read moreAlibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, said its Singles Day sales surged past last year’s total just after midday Saturday, hitting a record $18 billion, pointing to a likely giant haul for theworld’s biggest shopping event. Once a celebration for China’s lonely hearts, Singles Day has become an annual 24-hour extravaganza that exceeds the combined sales […]
Read moreCountries in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have agreed on the core elements to move ahead without the United States, officials said on Saturday, after last-minute resistance from Canada raised new doubts about its survival. Taking the agreement forward is a boost for the principle of multilateral trade pacts after U.S. President Donald […]
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