Roku is poised to test the public markets, but it first has a big question to answer: Why should investors be excited? Consumer devices have been a sinkhole for public investors of late. GoPro, the adventure camera company, has plunged 38 percent in the past year and is trading 63 percent below its IPO price […]
Read moreA recent study found that more than half of Americans are afraid they will lose their job to a robot. While plenty of jobs could be in jeopardy, there are certain fields that could be considered “robot proof.” Lee Rainie, director of Internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, calls these positions “high […]
Read moreItaly’s finance minister delivered an upbeat tone on his country’s banking sector but highlighted that major hurdles still remain in the euro zone, including in Germany. Germany might be the known as the powerhouse of the euro zone economy but it has its own banking problems to deal with, Pier Carlo Padoan told CNBC on […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest weapons test, saying the nation’s actions were very “hostile and dangerous” to the United States, and an embarrassment to China. Early Sunday, the regime led by Kim Jong Un claimed on state television that it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb that could […]
Read moreNorth Korea’s biggest nuclear test to date was condemned around the world on Sunday, with the U.N. nuclear watchdog expressing grave concern and Russia saying it could lead to serious consequences. The explosion of what North Korea said was an advanced hydrogen bomb caused residents across the border in China to flee their homes, fearing […]
Read moreSouth Korea was seeking “the toughest retaliation measures” after the North tested another nuclear weapon, a national security official said. “President Moon Jae-In ordered the toughest retaliation measures against North Korea’s ICBM level missile and nuclear provocations, mobilizing all diplomatic means to totally isolate North Korea,” Chung Eui-Yong, director of the national security office in […]
Read moreThe North Korean agency responsible for developing nuclear weapons released a statement on Sunday afternoon local time describing its alleged test of a hydrogen bomb. The awkwardly phrased statement from the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute claims North Korea “successfully carried out a test of H-bomb for ICBM in the northern nuclear test ground of the […]
Read moreNorth Korea said on state television on Sunday afternoon that it successfully carried out a test of a hydrogen bomb intended to be carried by an intercontinental ballistic missile. “North Korea’s supreme dear leader signed the order to test hydrogen bomb to be fitted to the ICBM and accordingly North Korea has tested a hydrogen […]
Read moreThe U.S. Justice Department said it had no evidence to support the unsubstantiated claim made in March by President Donald Trump that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. There has never been any evidence to support Trump’s assertion on Twitter that “Obama had my ‘wires […]
Read moreAs Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey’s floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away. Long a center of the nation’s petrochemical industry, the Houston metro area has more than a dozen Superfund sites, […]
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