A colourful microfibre of plastic found in bottled water. Photograph: Abigail Barrows According to the new study, the most common type of plastic fragment found was polypropylene the same type of plastic used to make bottle caps. The bottles analysed …
Facebook Inc. shares posted their steepest drop since 2015 as U.S. and European officials demanded answers to reports that a political advertising firm retained information on millions of the social network’s users without their consent. Politicians on both sides of …
U.S. President Donald Trump said the current trade spat with China may hurt the markets in the short term but that America will emerge stronger from it, as a confrontation that has roiled global equities heats up between the world’s …
Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand …
Key Trump adviser Steve Bannon Photograph: Alain Robert/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock The revelations provoked widespread outrage. The Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that the state would be launching an investigation. Residents deserve answers immediately from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, she said on …
It’s official: Tesla’s new Model 3 is now the best-selling electric car in the U.S. Tesla Inc. released its production numbers for the first quarter 2018 on Tuesday. The company delivered 8,180 Model 3s in the first three months of the …
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques likely affecting hundreds of millions of users and that Facebook looked the other way Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that …
The suspected serial bomber who killed two people and terrorized Austin, Texas, for three harrowing weeks was killed in a dramatic confrontation with police overnight Wednesday, authorities said. The suspect, identified by police early Wednesday as a 24-year old male, …
Binance to announce banking partnership in Malta: Zhao Move to Europe comes after crackdowns in Japan, China Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded value, is seeking a fresh start in the Mediterranean. The company, founded last year in …
The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And its only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to …
