As the diesel generator rumbles to life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, teenagers scramble…
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China’s island cities: Treasure or trouble for Asia?
A high-rise city the size of central London rising out of the ocean next to Sri…
At Walmart, using AI to watch the store
Inside one of Walmart's busiest Neighborhood Market grocery stores, high resolution cameras suspended from the ceiling…
Tesla hit with big loss as car deliveries sputter
Electric carmaker Tesla on Wednesday announced a heavy loss in the first quarter as car deliveries…
Possible $5B Facebook fine echoes European tech penalties
The possibility of a $5 billion federal privacy fine for Facebook suggests that U.S. regulators may…
Early melting of winter snowfall advances the Arctic springtime
The early arrival of spring in parts of the Arctic is driven by winter snow melting…
Research sheds light on genomic features that make plants good candidates for domestication
New research published this week identifies the genomic features that might have made domestication possible for…
‘Catastrophic’ breeding failure at one of world’s largest emperor penguin colonies
Emperor penguins at the Halley Bay colony in the Weddell Sea have failed to raise chicks…
Microsoft surges toward trillion-dollar value as profits rise
Microsoft said profits climbed in the past quarter on its cloud and business services as the…
Facebook profit slumps on set-aside for big US fine
Facebook on Wednesday reported quarterly profit sank 51 percent from a year earlier due to setting…