Banks also weighed on the market as bond yields declined. A steep, late-afternoon sell-off in technology companies pulled U.S. stocks sharply lower Tuesday, knocking 344 points off the Dow Jones industrial average. The market slide erased modest gains from earlier in the day and much of a powerful rally from the day before. Banks also […]

China’s central bank realized the first of what will likely be many Blockchain implementations in the form of the Blockchain Registry Open Platform (BROP), released Monday, March 26. Unveiled at the Global Financial Science and Technology Summit in the city of Hangzhou, BROP is an open Blockchain protocol developed by the Zhongchao Blockchain Research Institute. […]

  design competition has been launched to find the designer for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and the anticipation is already rising. Past pavilions have been created to wide acclaim by architects, artists and designers such as Thomas Heatherwick, Asif Khan and Wolfgang Buttress – all of which have have gone on to win multiple awards for […]

In the 1980s, Nike helped launch “sneaker culture” with the release of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordans. “Sneakerheads,” people who collect and obsess over kicks, were born and today help fuel a $1 billion sneaker resale market. But women have been historically left out. The athletic brand is hoping to fix that with Unlaced, a curated destination for female sneaker lovers that will launch […]

VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) – European Union leaders said talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday offered no answers to a long list of concerns including over Turkey’s intervention in Syria and the jailing of journalists at home. At a summit that host Bulgaria described as “charged with great tension”, the bloc vowed to keep […]

PHOENIX — Arizona is still feeling the effects of a controversial immigration bill that was signed into law nearly a decade ago. Senate Bill 1070, also known as the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, was signed into law by former Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010. It required law enforcement officers to determine the immigration […]

The latest Star Wars movie ended with yet another epic battle, but this one took place both on the ground and in the sky. Some fans might be surprised to learn that the skybound-portion of the Crait confrontation in Star Wars: The Last Jedi was heavily inspired by a famous Disneyland attraction. While speaking on the director’s commentary for […]

In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species survives or dies out locally. One possible consequence according to the researchers, is that although conservation initiatives can save endangered species, sometimes chance can override such efforts. Species that differ considerably in their ecology rarely […]

According to a recent report published by New Frontier Data, under full federal legalization the cannabis market has the potential to create cumulatively $105.6 billion in federal tax revenue and 1 million new jobs by 2025. Under the assumption of full legalization in all 50 states, data projects there would be an excess of 654,000 jobs and […]

A former undercover informant says he provided evidence to the FBI during President Obama’s first term that Russia was assisting Iran’s nuclear program even as billions in new U.S. business flowed to Moscow’s uranium industry. William Douglas Campbell told The Hill his evidence included that Russia was intercepting nonpublic copies of international inspection reports on […]