THE RESULTS was never really in doubt. On April 17th, just hours after polling stations closed, pollsters released preliminary estimates showing that Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo (better known as Jokowi) had won a second term in office. He is thought to have clinched about 55% of the vote, against 45% for his opponent, Prabowo Subianto,…
POSTED AT 11:58 AM K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, did not trust the president. Vol. II, Page 3: Shortly after requesting Flynn’s resignation and speaking privately to Comey, the President sought to have Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland draft an internal letter stating that the President had not directed Flynn to discuss…
It looks like scrap-booking is a hit in the IPO market. Shares of Pinterest Inc., the online board that allows users to “pin” or bookmark photos of home décor, weddings, exercise and more, opened at $23.75 Thursday, up 25 percent from its initial $19 listing, in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. The…
Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Business Insider has learned that since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network. The Silicon Valley company said the contacts were "unintentionally uploaded to…
JUST OVER 25 years ago Shanghai launched its metro with a single, stubby line. Since then it has added 15 lines and some 700km, making it the world’s longest metro system. It is far from done. The city recently unveiled plans for another 300km, including overland rail, within five years. Much of the work proceeds unseen…
The shooting’s aftermath was widely televised, and young people across America continue to be influenced by the symbology of the Columbine shooting and the students who carried it out, according to law enforcement officials, researchers and educators. In May 2018, a 17-year-old junior in Santa Fe, Tex., shot his teachers and fellow students with a…
More than two years after the two titans of the smartphone era, Apple and Qualcomm, went to war, peace broke out suddenly and surprisingly on Tuesday. Apple and Qualcomm announced that they had settled all of the patent and royalty lawsuits they had filed against each other. They also said they had agreed to a…
Chipmaker Intel said on Tuesday that it is exiting the 5G modem business, effectively ceding the market for smartphones on the eve of what's expected to be the biggest wireless market technology transition in years. The company said it will focus its 5G wireless efforts on network infrastructure. But, when it comes to the smartphone…
FOR CENTURIES prior to the Industrial Revolution, Asia’s massively populous societies made the continent the world’s centre of economic gravity. Industrialisation in Europe and North America in the 19th century briefly knocked it from its perch. But now Asian countries’ collective economic might, measured in real output on a purchasing-power-parity basis, is forecast to account…
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. • Officials are treating Monday’s fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris as an accident, not a deliberate act. President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped the cathedral could be rebuilt within five years — though at least one expert said it could take three times that…
