You’ve heard about the robots—how they are on their way to vaporize the jobs of tens of thousands of bankers and brokers on Wall Street, in the City of London, and in trading hubs around the world. How they are bent on inflicting similar mayhem in law and accounting firms, and in computer-programming pools.
Ignore the vows and hair-pulling.
The Trump administration has given out conflicting signals regarding its attitude toward Syrian president Bashar al Assad: it says its missile airstrike was a one-off response to Syria’s sarin attack, and that its policy accepting Assad as the country’s leader hasn’t changed. But it also called for an international coalition to remove Assad.
The US gave advance notice to Russia before the missile attack on Syria today, because president Donald Trump wanted to avoid hitting Russian forces who were assumed to be deployed at or around the Shayrat base in Homs province, the US administration said.
Dyson, the UK appliance maker owned by billionaire James Dyson, has relinquished the core intellectual property of Sakti3, a hyper-secretive solid-state battery startup that it acquired for $90 million just 18 months ago as the first step in a plan to become a battery juggernaut.
Automation is one of the biggest concerns (paywall) of labor economists these days. But US president Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary thinks the threat that robots will replace whole classes of white- and blue-collar jobs is too remote to even think about.
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminum titan at the center of a new controversy surrounding US president Donald Trump, rose up in the blood-and-guts, rough-and-tumble chaos that followed the breakup of the USSR 25 years ago. But of the period’s dozens of billionaire oligarchs, he is one of only a few still in the game.
In a fresh sign of the Trump administration’s cold shoulder toward its traditional allies, Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, will skip the next meeting of NATO foreign ministers, but will visit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and later with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
When David Rockefeller was born more than a century ago, his family name conjured up the worst ruthlessness and commercial depravity of the Gilded Age, a reputation forged by the practices of his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, America’s original oil titan.
Researchers have struggled for decades to safely use powerful—but flammable—lithium metal in a battery. Now John Goodenough, the 94-year-old father of the lithium-ion battery, is claiming a novel solution as a blockbuster advance.
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for next year makes big cuts to US government science funding. But it’s not only government scientists who will suffer: It’s American high-tech industries that, in recent decades, have come to rely on those scientists’ basic research to seed their innovations.
In December, the world’s petro-states congratulated themselves for what they called a historic achievement—24 of them agreed to cut their collective production by 1.8 million barrels a day, all in the service of bringing order to a chaotic oil market in which prices had plunged to about $27 a barrel. Among the most surprising things was the involvement of Russia, traditionally an outsider that refused to cooperate with OPEC.
Amid a race to market, the promoters who say a self-driving future is just around the corner rarely disclose one important thing—the price of outfitting an autonomous car. That extra cost, according to one of the few experts prepared to discuss the subject openly: about $250,000 per vehicle.
Amid intensifying demands for action to combat an offensive by Moscow against the West, US president Donald Trump has reportedly appointed a paramount expert on Russian president Vladimir Putin as his chief Russia adviser.
After almost two years of acid attacks against all comers, challenges to most of the pillars of US and western power, and ominous appeals to base fears, US president Donald Trump tonight asked his fellow Americans and foreigners alike to forget all that and unite behind him as a fair and just leader.
ExxonMobil has taken a big hit to one of the pillars underlying its decades of braggadocio: its oil reserves.
Before he died last year, Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov was a killer. Accused critics and dissidents were tortured and died in prisons under his quarter-century rule. On a state visit to neighboring Turkmenistan during the 1990s, Karimov walked up to me, his finger wagging. “We hope that one day you will understand our country,” he said, pointing in my face. Somehow, it sounds a lot less menacing in writing. I lasted two years as a Tashkent-based correspondent for Newsweek before being expelled.
After a few months of attempts at warmth, the US-Russia Cold War is back.
Washington, DC is in a lather over reports of regular contact between suspected Russian spies and people close to US president Donald Trump—especially since US intelligence agencies think Moscow was plotting at the same time to help him win the November election.
US president Donald Trump went into a January call with Russian president Vladimir Putin without being briefed first by intelligence or National Security Council experts, and during the conversation had to ask an aide to explain the New Start treaty, a milestone accord that constrains the two nations’ nuclear and missile arsenals, according to Reuters.
From the Super Bowl to Silicon Valley and federal court, the deplored American elite—corporate heavyweights, billionaires, the old political establishment—is attempting to form a wall against what they regard as a threat to the way the modern world works.
In his first day on the job as US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, the former boss of ExxonMobil, displayed a quality in short supply in the early Trump administration: humility.
Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, won confirmation to be secretary of state, becoming the chief US diplomat at a time the Trump administration has opened battles with nations across the world, and within the State Department itself.
In the eerie world of international espionage, nothing of late has topped the official US accusation that Russian president Vladimir Putin plotted to put US president Donald Trump in power. Now, the tale has become even more salacious with the reported arrest of three Russian cyber experts, one of whom was perp-walked out of a meeting with a bag over his head, and the suspicious death of a former KGB general.
