by Administration | Dec 12, 2018 | Monthly Topics
US Intelligence Official: China’s Hacking Against US on the Rise NEW YORK — A senior U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday that Chinese cyber activity in the United States had risen in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure in what may be...
by Administration | Dec 11, 2018 | Emerging Markets
India’s BJP trailing in key regional elections: partial results Analysts say a big loss for prime minister’s ruling party could unite opposition ahead of elections next year. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trailing against opposition...
by Administration | Dec 10, 2018 | Emerging Markets
Armenia polls: PM Nikol Pashinyan’s bloc wins by landslide Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s bloc wins 70 percent of the votes cast in the snap election, electoral commission says. Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide...
by Administration | Dec 9, 2018 | Monthly Topics
Australia Passes World’s First Encryption-Busting Law Security agencies will gain greater access to encrypted messages under new laws in Australia. The legislation will force technology companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google to disable encryption protections to...
by Administration | Dec 8, 2018 | Emerging Markets
What does Meng Wanzhou’s arrest means for US-China conflict Arrest of top Huawei executive may complicate already fraught US-China ties and have wider effect on global markets. On the day global attention zeroed in on a highly-anticipated meeting between the...
by Administration | Dec 7, 2018 | Monthly Topics
Virginia Tech Students Unveil the House of the Future Joseph Wheeler and his team of students and faculty from Virginia Tech University are convinced they are building the house of the future. Judges at the recent Solar Decathlon Middle East agreed, awarding their...
by Administration | Dec 6, 2018 | Monthly Topics
Scientists Pool Oceans of Data to Plot Earth’s Final Frontier For experts in the field of ocean mapping, it is no small irony that we know more about the surfaces of the moon and Mars than we do about our planet’s sea floor. “Can you imagine operating on the land...
by Administration | Dec 5, 2018 | Emerging Markets
Saudi king extends invitation to Qatari emir to attend GCC summit Doha has yet to confirm the level of representation it will send to the Gulf gathering on December 9. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has invited Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to...
by Administration | Dec 4, 2018 | Monthly Topics
Where Are Drones? Amazon’s Customers Still Waiting Jeff Bezos boldly predicted five years ago that drones would be carrying Amazon packages to people’s doorsteps by now. Amazon customers are still waiting. And it’s unclear when, if ever, this particular order by...
by Administration | Dec 3, 2018 | Monthly Topics
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Doctors Better? Scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles are developing a way of using machine learning to identify specific types of breast cancer tumors, and they say it’s just the beginning of what...
