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Hong Kong — Beijing has vowed countermeasures against Washington if US President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to impose new 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump’s latest threat came after China unleashed a raft of export restrictions on rare earth minerals last week.The escalating tensions threaten to derail […]

Construction robots are no longer a far-off idea.They’re already changing job sites by tackling repetitive, heavy, and often dangerous tasks.The latest robot comes from Australia, where a spider-like machine named Charlotte is making headlines.Charlotte is designed to 3D print an entire 2,150-sq-ft home in just one day.That’s equivalent to the […]

Fast-food drive-thrus may not be getting much faster, but they’re getting smarter, and friendlier staff might still matter more than artificial intelligence, a new report found.The 25th Annual Drive-Thru Study, conducted by Intouch Insight and QSR magazine, examined 13 fast-food brands across three categories: classic, chicken and beverage.The research was […]

Become an Insiderand start reading now.Have an account? . – Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. – Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs. – A Concorde plane is open for public tours at the Intrepid […]

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting quantum mechanics into action and enabling the development of all kinds of digital technology from cellphones to a new generation of computers. The Nobel jury noted that their work had […]

Just a couple of years ago, America’s auto industry had visions of an all-electric future.It has since abandoned that talk after the Trump administration eliminated the federal government’s incentives for the technology. The near future isn’t looking too pretty.The end of the $7,500 federal tax credit for EVs is expected […]

OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman ‘s company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker.AMD stock skyrocketed 23.71% on Monday following the news.OpenAI will deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct graphics processing units over multiple years and across multiple generations of hardware, […]

Homecoming day at Jericho High School on New York’s Long Island looked very different this year.Same big display of school spirit on the gym floor, but up in the stands, there were no cell phones at this pep rally, because this year students have to put them away for the […]

DIGITAL ECONOMY Lexically, platforms are wide open spaces for showcasing installations, opportunities, capabilities, areas where evolution takes place.Derived from the French plate-forme (literally ‘flat form’), platforms in tech terms are now surfaces for services and applications. The digital economy is undoubtedly growing rapidly, but despite information being so accessible, many […]

New York — The world’s most recognizable showgirl may be entering a new era, but there’s no sign that Taylor Swift’s gold rush is slowing down. Swift is the only female musical artist in history to sell more than 100 million albums.Her newest album , “The Life of a Showgirl,” […]