Technology

Nikola Corp. founder and former executive chair was released on $100 million bail after pleading guilty to charges that he lied about his startup of electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. He also allegedly deceived novice investors, including those who were...

Anti-monopoly regulators fined companies including the internet giants Alibaba, Tencent and others Wednesday in a move to tighten control of their rapidly-developing industries.The State Administration for Market Regulation announced that 22 companies were given 500,000 Yuan ($75,000 each) for...

Americans are obsessed with collecting collectibles and have been bidding up the prices of trading cards, videogames, and other mementos from their youth. While this frenzy may have brought modest fortunes for some, it has been a source of deep...

Carrefour, the retail giant in the Middle East, unveiled its vision for the future of the sector Monday at a Dubai mall.The Carrefour mini market looks just like Amazon's unmanned grocery stores, which opened in 2018. It is stuffed...

Tuesday's announcement by the United Arab Emirates was that a probe will be sent to land on an Asteroid between Mars, Jupiter and collect data about the origins of our universe. This is the latest project in the ambitious...

To ensure that climate change is not a problem, the U.S. launched Monday's latest satellite into orbit from California.Landsat 9 was launched into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. It lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force...

The global outage that post, that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went dark "not by malicious activity but because of an error of our own making."This problem happened as engineers were working on Facebook's global backbone network. These include the computers,...

Thursday's announcement by the European Union would require that the smartphone industry adopt a standard charging cord for mobile devices. This could end the all-too-familiar experience with digging through tangled cables in order to find the right one.The European...

Wolfgang Huste, like other German residents, knew that a flood was imminent. He says that he was not told how terrible it would be by anyone.Ahrweiler's 66-year old antiquarian bookseller said that the loudspeaker announcements at 8 p.m. on the...

Nissan has announced that its massive factory in Smyrna (Tennessee) will be closed for two weeks beginning Monday because of computer chip shortages caused by the coronavirus epidemic in Malaysia.Since the global semiconductor shortage that has hampered auto production...