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Not only will your car soon be telling you it’s low on battery, you may have to top up its data, too. US carmaker Chevrolet yesterday began offering an unlimited 4G plan for $20 per month. That fee will allow car owners and passengers to connect to the internet through an AT&T OnStar 4G LTE […]

US president Donald Trump continues to be dogged by concerns about his connections to Russia and suggestions that several of his advisers were in contact with the Kremlin during his election campaign. Alleged links between Russian officials and Trump associates are being investigated by the FBI and both sides of Congress, while two FBI field […]

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and space company Blue Origin, wants to make “cost-effective deliveries” to the moon. As the Trump administration shows renewed interest in traveling to the moon, Blue Origin has circulated a seven-page white paper at NASA and among the president’s transition team that details its interest in developing a lunar […]

As Barack Obama was leaving office, he told Donald Trump that North Korea would likely be his most urgent problem as president, according to an investigation by the New York Times. North Korea has successfully launched hundreds of short- and mid-range missiles, but it has not yet launched a long-range missile that might threaten the […]

US president Donald Trump sent five tweets early Saturday morning accusing Barack Obama of tapping the phone lines at Trump Tower in New York City in early October, just weeks before the election. He offered no evidence to support his claim. Trump tweeted that nothing had been found and that Obama had been “turned down […]

America’s gun manufacturers are having a tough time getting people to buy guns since Donald Trump was elected president. Sturm, Ruger, the only company in the US that makes all four types of guns—rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers—has seen a sharp drop in sales. According to footnoted, Ruger’s CEO, Chris Killoy, recently told investors that […]Read More

LinkedIn, Monster.com, and other job websites have revolutionized the way that companies look for new hires. But they’ve also made it easier for those companies to sort candidates based on factors like where they went to school and which companies they’ve worked at in the past—which can narrow the pool of candidates and contribute to […]Read More

Americans are currently able to travel throughout the European Union (EU) without much paperwork. But that’s not a privilege the European Parliament wants to keep extending. The reason is simple. American visitors can enjoy visa-free travel throughout the bloc, but the US doesn’t reciprocate. EU travelers from some member countries still need visas to enter […]

On Feb. 28, 53 major US companies signed a “friend of the court” brief supporting Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student from Virginia who sued the board of his school after his district denied him access to the restroom corresponding to his chosen gender. Grimm has argued the policy violates Title IX of the […]

It’s #deleteUber all over again. South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual music and technology conference in Austin, Texas, that draws more than 2,000 acts and 50,000 attendees from around the world, was bombarded by abrupt online outrage this week after an indie musician tweeted a part of the festival’s performance policies that pertains to international […]Read More

Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards, are not animals you’d want to meet in a dark alleyway—or anywhere else, for that matter. They grow up to 10 feet long, and, although they have weaker jaws than house cats, they kill whatever they’re going to eat by biting them with sharp teeth that inject venom that […]Read More

What could be simpler than defining a glass of milk? It turns out that it’s not so simple. This week, the Good Food Institute in Washington, DC submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a 59-page petition for the agency to issue a new rule to end the longstanding debate over whether plant-based […]