When Google first passed Microsoft in terms of stock market value six years ago, it looked like the companies were headed in opposite directions. But over the past 12 months, Microsoft has surged 40 percent, more than five times Alphabet’s gain, and has again become the more valuable of the two. As of midday Tuesday, […]
Read moreLawmakers and parents of school shooting victims are expressing anger at an upcoming video game allowing players to either stop or commit a school shooting. The game, called Active Shooter, is scheduled to launch on June 6, according to its web page on the video game marketplace Steam. It’s described as a “dynamic SWAT simulator” […]
Read moreVirgin Galactic took another step on Tuesday toward beginning commercial operations with its latest test flight, only 54 days after its last launch went supersonic. Richard Branson’s space tourism company completed the second rocket-powered flight of its Unity spacecraft — launching and landing from the Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert. Virgin […]
Read moreActress Roseanne Barr apologized Tuesday for a tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett, a black former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, to an ape. “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” Barr wrote on Twitter. “I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known […]
Read moreItaly’s Prime Minister-designate Carlo Cottarelli is considering giving up his mandate to form a government to open the way for an election as early as July 29, two party sources said on Tuesday. Such a move would require President Sergio Mattarella to dissolve parliament in coming days. If there were to be a vote at […]
Read moreThe White House on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still “expected” to happen in Singapore – just five days after Trump stunned the world by canceling it. “The United States continues to actively prepare for President Trump’s expected summit with leader Kim in Singapore,” White […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] OF THE €57.7bn ($68.2bn) of loans that Piraeus Bank, one of Greece’s four dominant lenders, had on its books at the end of March, €20.5bn were more than 90 days overdue. A further €11.7bn were also deemed unlikely to be repaid. In all, at the end of 2017 Greek banks […]
Read moreOne of the best-known slogans in recent political history is: “It’s the economy, stupid.” This simple message helped propel Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 and later sustained his popularity when he faced impeachment. Candidates over the past quarter century have harkened back to this catchphrase – as incumbents running when the economy […]
Read moreRussian search giant Yandex has launched its own home assistant smart speaker as it looks to take on the likes of the Amazon Echo and Google Home. The company unveiled a $160 smart speaker called Yandex.Station on Tuesday. It is designed to work alongside the Russian-speaking intelligent assistant called Alice, unveiled in October last year. […]
Read moreCar companies battling for their share of $2 trillion in annual global auto sales increasingly lean on shiny tech that takes over some of the driving from humans. Boasting names such as Autopilot, Super Cruise and ProPilot Assist, these systems — whose radar and cameras are the building blocks of self-driving cars — are part […]
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