North Korea vows to retaliate against US over sanctions North Korea has vowed to retaliate and make “the US pay a price” for drafting fresh UN sanctions over its banned nuclear weapons programme. The sanctions, which were unanimously passed by the UN on Saturday, were a “violent violation of our […]
Venezuela quells ‘paramilitary’ attack at base; 2 dead Venezuela remained a powder keg on Sunday as authorities said they had quelled an anti-government paramilitary attack at a military base that led to the deaths of two people, and the country’s attorney general defied her ouster by the newly elected National […]
British model kidnapped for dark web auction, Italian police say A 20-year-old British model was kidnapped in Milan, Italy, to be auctioned off on a pornographic website on the dark web, the Italian State Police said Saturday. The model, who has not been named, was assaulted, drugged, handcuffed and stuck […]
Justin Gatlin beats Usain Bolt in Jamaican’s last solo race There was to be no triumphant end to Usain Bolt’s final individual race. The great Jamaican will retire after the IAAF World Championships in London, bringing the curtain down on an incomparable career. But in the 100m final on Saturday […]
Say goodbye to the iPod era Let’s say goodbye, finally, to the beloved Apple iPod. Apple just quietly announced that it was killing the Shuffle and iPod Nano, leaving just iPod Touch as the remaining model, and the Touch is basically the iPhone without phone service. The others were pure […]
Ageism is forcing many to look outside Silicon Valley, but tech hubs offer little respite For years, job hunting over the age of 40 in the youth-obsessed Silicon Valley could prove hazardous to your career. But judging from the experiences of technology workers roaming the country in search of job […]
Diversity debate divides Silicon Valley Opposition to the tech industry’s diversity initiatives, thrust into the open when a Google software engineer published an online manifesto over the weekend, reflects a simmering resentment that few have discussed openly — and that puts pressure on tech leaders to address. On Saturday an […]
Electric car company Faraday Future finds a factory Tesla is getting the lion’s share of electric-automaker publicity of late with the recent rollout of its entry-level Model 3 sedan. But a would-be rival has signaled it hopes to steal some of that spotlight soon. Los Angeles-based and Chinese-backed Faraday Future […]
Smart pet? Audible wants Fido to listen to Jane Austen You think your dog is pretty smart. But is your pet smart enough to digest Jane Austen? The folks behind Audible, the Amazon-owned company and largest seller of narrated books, want your dog to listen to Pride and Prejudice and […]
Diversity programs at Google discriminatory, engineer claims in anti-diversity manifesto A document written by an unnamed senior software engineer at Google suggesting the company encourage “ideological” rather than gender diversity, is generating anger within the company and in Silicon Valley. Titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the male author wrote that […]
