By  Scott Brown For all the touted advantages of a technology, businesses will only put their money into it if they have an idea about the kind of returns they can expect. DOOH offers advantages but for it to be truly integrated into a business’s marketing mix, it is important to understand the value it […]

LEESBURG, Va. — Astronomers watching the 2017 solar eclipse from the ground and from the air witnessed new, tantalizing features of the sun’s outer atmosphere. Three teams have recently presented their first science results from the Great American Eclipse. Combined, the findings could help disentangle lingering solar puzzles, such as how bursts of plasma leave the […]

Car companies battling for their share of $2 trillion in annual global auto sales increasingly lean on shiny tech that takes over some of the driving from humans. Boasting names such as Autopilot, Super Cruise and ProPilot Assist, these systems — whose radar and cameras are the building blocks of self-driving cars — are part of a […]

Marvel Studios gave fans a Memorial Day treat with a teaser for “Ant-Man and the Wasp” that features new footage of the duo on a mission to stop their latest foe — Ghost. The short clip features Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) laying out his grocery-list-style plan to destroy the villain Ghost to Hank Pym (Michael […]

In 1995, a modest 3.3 million people visited Japan, a fascinating land of ancient temples, neon skyscrapers, snow-capped mountains and sandy beaches. That year it was the 34th most visited country on the planet, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), behind the likes of Bulgaria, Ukraine and Belgium. Growth was steady, if unspectacular, […]

Volatility gripped Wall Street on Tuesday. The Dow fell as much as 430 points — 1.6% — on fears about a political crisis in Italy and renewed trade tensions between the United States and China. The index turned negative for the year. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slipped 1.3% and 0.7% apiece. Italy is headed […]

“Shabbat as a day of rest [religiously] and also according to the law, is a central value in the lives of all Jews and our identity as a people.” The youth wing of the National Union religious party, a part of the Bayit Yehudi Knesset faction, has called on Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev […]

LONDON  – Westminster Abbey, one of London’s most famous tourist sites, is opening up an area previously closed to the public to show off 300 items including Prince William’s marriage license to chronicle its 1,000-year history. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries are in the 13th-century triforium, some 16 meters (52 ft) above the floor of […]

A man has shot dead two female police officers and a civilian in the eastern Belgian city of Liège. The gunman also took a female cleaner hostage at a school before being killed by police. Four other police officers were also injured. The man’s motive is not yet clear but the incident is being treated […]

Austria’s Financial Market Authority has barred a cryptocurrency mining firm from operating, alleging that the company violated the nation’s banking laws. The regulator announced Tuesday that it had “prohibited the business model of INVIA GmbH,” a mining firm, claiming that it was offering an unauthorized Alternative Investment Fund in violation of the Austria Banking Act. […]