The United States has dropped charges against 11 of 15 guards of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who were indicted over a brawl with PKK supporters in Washington D.C. in May 2017, in a decision made public late Wednesday. The prosecution first asked charges to be dropped against four of Erdoğan’s security team in November. On […]

Germany has retained its position as Europe’s largest Travel & Tourism economy, according to new research released by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) today. The research shows that Germany’s Travel & Tourism sector contributed €348.1 billion to the country’s economy in 2017. This was ahead of the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. […]

While we like to think we’re tight with the royals (like, we’re not technically invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding on May 19th, but that is surely an oversight), there are protocols in place that even we don’t know about. And a lot of them involve when the royal family can touch both other people and […]

In an internal email to colleagues at the University of Cambridge, data scientist Aleksandr Kogan called Facebook’s side of the story a “fabrication.” Kogan’s assertions directly contradict those of Facebook executives, who insist he “lied” when passing the data along to Cambridge Analytica.The data scientist at the center of Facebook’s data controversy says the company knew he […]

As SpaceX ramps up rocket production and rehabilitation, it’s going to need new facilities. That can be tricky for any company, but it’s a particularly difficult problem when you need to build enormous rockets suitable for interplanetary missions with large payload fairings like SpaceX’s upcoming BFR (Big Falcon Rocket). SpaceX appears to have chosen Los […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday that paves the way for imposing tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese imports to punish Beijing for what he said is the theft of American technology and Chinese pressure on U.S. companies to hand it over. “It is the largest deficit […]

After years of trying to engineer a more environmentally friendly coffee cup, Starbucks is turning to you for ideas. And it’s willing to pay. The company announced Tuesday that it’s launching a $10 million grant challenge to solicit designs for a cup that’s easier to recycle. Starbucks (SBUX) partnered with a recycling-focused investor group called Closed Loop Partners […]

SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2018 — Max Sound Corporation (OTC:MAXD) This Sunday March 25, 2018 at 10:30am PDT, MAXD CEO John Blaisure will be addressing FutureTechLive @ WonderCon in Anaheim, as a panelist on “Going Crypto: How Digital Coin Technology Is Changing How We Live Our Lives.” WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction and film […]

Criminals are switching to hijacking victims’ computers to mine cryptocurrency With the rise of the blockchain technology, we have seen the birth of a new type of cybercrime – crypto-jacking. In Sweden, this new scheme is currently enjoying a worrying growth as more and more electronic devices are getting attacked by hackers, reported TheLocal.se. However, the pace at […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China should prepare for military action over self-ruled Taiwan and pressure Washington over cooperation on North Korea after the United States passed a law to boost ties with Taiwan, a widely read Chinese state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Beijing was infuriated when U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation last week that encourages […]