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The International Maritime Organization may approve a new carbon tax on shipping.
The Trump administration argues the carbon tax will harm trade and cost jobs.
Australian businessman...
Last week in a letter Sen. Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar urged their constituents to support a bill that will regulate campaign ads running on social networks like Facebook. A draft of the bill may hit Congress as early as Tuesday, according to Gizmodo.
Gizmodo reports the bill was...
Over the weekend, Showtime websites were reportedly found to be running a script that allows the websites to mine visitors’ extra CPU power for the cryptocurrency.
Users on Twitter pointed out that the afflicted sites including showtime.com and showtimeanytime.com were mining for the cryptocurrency, but the script has since...
The tweets in your timeline are going to get a bit longer. Twitter announced on today that the company has started testing 280-character tweets, increasing the previous character limit, to help users share their thoughts and ideas.
“Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause...
The CEO of Equifax has suddenly retired after a major data breach that left over 100 million people affected.
Richard Smith is the CEO and chairman of Equifax. On Tuesday, he retired following a data breach at the credit-reporting service that affected the private information of 143 million people,...
Twitter has responded to critics who claim the social network has given President Donald Trump a pass on his inflammatory tweets.
On Monday, a company spokesman said that it takes into account “newsworthiness” and public interest when deciding whether or not a particular tweet violates the company’s rules for...
A group of hackers connected to Russia’s military intelligence unit, the GRU, started creating fake Facebook accounts to boost stolen emails as early as June 2016, according to a new report by the Washington Post.
The report comes weeks after Facebook announced that fake accounts linked to Russia were...
YouTube is releasing a new tool called Director Mix, which will make it easier for advertisers and marketers to create hundreds of variations of video ads.
The video-streaming company is on a mission to capture advertisers and create more relevant ads that are tailored to a certain viewer’s profile.
While it...
Uber is willing to make a deal to ensure their ability to license and operate in London.
Tom Elvidge told the Sunday Times they are willing to make concessions. "While we haven't been asked to make any changes, we'd like to know what we can do.”
Elvidge added, “That requires a...
NASA’s Langley Research Center built a new state-of-the-art research facility in Hampton, Virginia and named the complex after Katherine Johnson, the NASA engineer, and star of the book and Oscar-nominated feature film Hidden Figures.
“You want my honest answer? I think they’re crazy,” Katherine Johnson said when she heard...
Researchers from the University of Liverpool and University College London analyzed data on more than 10,000 children born in 2000 to 2001 and found nearly 1 out of 4 girls and 1 out of 10 boys are depressed by the age of 14.
As part of the Millennium Cohort Study,...
A robot dentist has completed the first implants without human touch. The robot has completed the very first successful autonomous implant surgery by fitting two new teeth into a woman’s mouth. While medical staff was present during the operation, they did not play a major role in the implant...
CVS announced a limit on all opioid prescriptions to a week supply. As a result, the major retail giant will be the first to do so following the outbreak of the opioid epidemic.
CVS Caremark, the company’s pharmacy benefits manager, is using their management program to limit opioid prescriptions to...
As Republicans mount an effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is making sure it is not easy for people to sign up for health insurance.
Last Friday, the administration announced that healthcare.gov, the website many Americans use to sign up for health insurance through...
Snap was one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2017, but Wall Street seems to be walking away from the camera company with every new quarterly report the owner of Snapchat puts out.
Share price at Snap rocked in both directions in another week of trading this Monday after...
After reaching $4,000 on exchange markets over the weekend, Bitcoin cryptocurrency is continuing to rise, reaching a record $4,300 on Monday. Let me put that into context; Bitcoin is nearly trading at about $1,000 higher than a week ago, according to research from the Coinbase currency exchange.
According to CryptoCoin...
The amount of data you can put on a hard drive continues to grow. Thanks to IBM and Sony, the two companies have jointly developed a new kind of tape that can hold 201-gigabits or roughly 25GB per square inch. While that may not seem that impressive considering, you...
Tinder Select is an invite-only version of the dating app. Last month, the exclusive dating group hosted a series of parties at telecom mogul Michael Hirtenstein’s oceanfront property. Over the weekends of July 14th and July 21st, cops reportedly visited the property multiple times due to noise complaints from...
It appears as though President Donald Trump may get his wall after all. Last week, the House approved a $1.6 billion spending bill that will fund the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, and yesterday the Department of Homeland Security issued a waiver to expedite border construction...
The UK government announced on Saturday that nearly all drones will now have to be registered.
The government announced that all drones that weigh more than 25 grams, which is a little more than a half a pound, will need to be registered with the Department of Transport.
Moreover, drone owners...
Google Home or Amazon Echo devices can be annoying if the device inadvertently turns on. In fact, earlier this year San Diego station CW6 aired a broadcast about a child ordering a doll house through her family’s Amazon Echo. However, CW6 reported many people complained that their Alexa device...
