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Salmon fishing communities in the Pacific northwest are desperately trying to catch an invasive species of Atlantic salmon that escaped from nets over the weekend. Cooke Aquaculture, which was farming the fish, blamed the fiasco on eclipse-induced high tides—though conservation groups are skeptical. The company estimates that between 4,000 and 5,000 fish escaped into the […]

The Trump administration’s legislative agenda is in shambles. The White House is losing people faster than a series of The Apprentice. Obamacare has not been repealed; the wall is not being built; jobs are still moving to Mexico; and Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president so early in the first term. […]

Lottery players are on high alert. At $700 million, tonight’s Powerball jackpot is the second largest prize in US lottery history. According to Powerball, the odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292 million. You are more likely to die from an asteroid strike. Given the high stakes, many lottery players are looking […]

Walmart and Google have joined forces to fight Amazon for shopping with the sound of your voice. In a blog post published today, Marc Lore, CEO of Jet.com, the e-commerce company Walmart acquired in September 2016, said users will be able to purchase Walmart products through Google’s voice assistant starting in late September. The collaboration […]

It seems there is literally no job that is safe from the rising tide of automation, including those who guide us into the afterlife. At the curiously named “Life Ending Industry” funereal services convention in Japan on Wednesday, a plastics firm called Nissei Eco showed off a version of SoftBank’s Pepper robot that it had […]

US president Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric against Mexicans appears to be keeping undocumented immigrants away—and dollar-toting tourists with visas as well. The number of Mexican visitors to the US started dropping slightly ahead of the US presidential election in November last year. By March, the latest data available from the US government, tourism from Mexico […]

Talcum powder was once thought safe enough for a baby’s bottom and a lady’s, well…lady parts. It absorbs moisture, minimizes friction, and is used to prevent rashes—US manufacturer Johnson & Johnson for many years promoted the powder for infant care and feminine hygiene. Now, however, the company faces a spate of claims from thousands of […]Read More

In a speech delivered last night (Aug. 21) in Fort Meyer, Virginia, Donald Trump confirmed what was expected: he is walking back opposition to military involvement in Afghanistan, and instead sending more troops to a war that’s already cost the US some $800 billion and over 2,400 troops’ lives. After Obama failed to make good […]

In June, Google told stock photography website Shutterstock that its researchers had found a weakness that could destroy the site’s entire business. Google’s researchers had built an AI-powered tool that could easily remove the watermarks Shutterstock uses to protect all of its images across the site. If a company less “not evil” had done so, […]Read More

As the great solar eclipse of 2017 moved across the United States yesterday, crowds congregated below to watch it happen. Some pilgrimaged inland to gather under the “path of totality,” where the sun would appear totally eclipsed. Meanwhile, in large cities like New York, Washington and Los Angeles, people in office buildings and on the […]

1. Code of conduct “The poor are far more likely to get stuck in jail, which makes them far more likely to get fired from jobs, lose custody of children, plead guilty to something they didn’t do, serve time in prison, and suffer the lifelong consequences of a criminal conviction.” What’s the key element that […]Read More

US president Donald Trump’s speech on Aug. 21 about his plans in Afghanistan was light on details, but suggested that the US could go into open-ended war in the country in order to achieve an “everlasting peace.” It echoed promises by his predecessors, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who backed sending tens of thousands […]