Julie Chen may have dodged any discussion of the allegations against her husband, CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves, Monday morning on her show “The Talk,” but “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert didn’t hold back. Colbert opened his show on Monday night reporting that he was away for the weekend in South Carolina without internet (“They […]

ISIS claimed responsibility but U.S. officials have not confirmed the group’s involvement and the Tajik government blamed local Islamists. Two Americans were killed in Tajikistan in what the U.S. Embassy described as a “senseless” car-and-knife attack on a group of seven cyclists. Two other tourists — one Swiss, the other from the Netherlands — were […]

TOKYO – Japan’s central bank pledged to keep its massive stimulus in place but made tweaks to reduce adverse effects of its policies on markets and commercial banks, reflecting its view it would take longer for inflation to hit its target. At a two-day rate review that ended on Tuesday, the Bank of Japan kept […]

SEOUL – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd posted its slowest quarterly profit growth in more than a year on Tuesday as its Galaxy S9 device missed sales targets and competition heated up, casting doubt on its leadership of the smartphone market. The Apple Inc components supplier and smartphone rival said operating profit from the mobile business […]

By Emma Lorinsan The deterioration of motor skills in Parkinson’s patients is driven by the decline of dopamine production, but researchers in Japan are making exciting progress on a way to potentially arrest the slide. Following promising experiments on monkeys last year, scientists at Kyoto University are now preparing to begin transplanting reprogrammed stem cells into […]

Zimbabwe’s opposition says its candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has won Monday’s presidential election. The MDC Alliance says the ruling Zanu-PF party is attempting to rig the vote to allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to win, and the delay in releasing official results is unacceptable. The election commission has said there has been no cheating and it needed […]

The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of the world’s largest banks by total assets, has completed the issuance of a loan worth $300,000 using a blockchain system. The bank tested the technology for the first time in one of its branches in China’s Guizhou province, issuing a loan backed by a piece of agricultural […]

By Laura Desmond Ethereum co-founder Buterin Vitalik believes that the crypto community has focused too much on ETFs rather than making cryptocurrency easier to use as a method of payment for everyday purchases via payment cards, according to a recent tweet. An ETF will benefit cryptocurrency prices, he believes, but making it easier for people to […]

Tezos may be one of the most controversial cryptocurrencies out there, and not because of the disruptive power of the coin, but because of how it has been run as a company. High Aspirations Tezos was originally developed with the goal of creating a “self-amending” cryptocurrency that wouldn’t end up becoming fragmented by hard forks […]

Crooks exploited legit web ad ecosystem – researchers Security researchers at Check Point have lifted the lid on the infrastructure and methods of an enormous “malvertising” and banking trojan campaign. The operation delivered malicious adverts to millions worldwide, slinging all manner of nasties including crypto-miners, ransomware and banking trojans. The researchers told The Register that they have […]