Moving top secret files around the Internet just got a little easier. Mozilla launched a new tool on Tuesday called Firefox Send. The service, which will serve as a direct competitor to the publicly traded Dropbox, lets anyone quickly, and easily, share important files, before it gives them the disappearing Snapchat treatment, making them disappear…
The Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among more than 40 people charged in connection with a college-admissions scheme, according to court documents unsealed in Boston on Tuesday. Thirty-three parents are accused of paying William Rick Singer, the owner of the Edge College & Career Network, a total of $25 million from 2011…
FOR THE second time in five months, a virtually new Boeing 737 MAX airliner has crashed within minutes of taking off, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew aboard. On March 10th Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 departed from Addis Ababa, the carrier’s home airport, for what should have been a routine two-hour flight to Nairobi,…
“Because it’s the most widely used jetliner, when there are unanswered questions about it and groundings, it can have a huge ripple effect in the confidence of the aviation system,” said Bill Adair, author of “The Mystery of Flight 427,” a book about a 737 crash in 1994. “But it’s important not to jump to…
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web. It was 30 years ago that British engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee effectively created the medium that has made communication instantaneous and cheap, spawned a generation of content surfers, launched many a billion-dollar business, and upended nearly every industry. To celebrate, Berners-Lee wrote a somber reflection on where the web—which along…
Boeing The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Monday morning thanks to a big drop in Boeing shares. A Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed Sunday morning, the second time a plane of that model has crashed in five months. Boeing has a weighting of more than 10% of the Dow. Watch…
“ONLY WHEN the year grows cold do we see the qualities of the pine and the cypress,” wrote Robin Li, the boss of Baidu, in a new year’s letter to staff at China’s main online-search firm. It was yet another recognition of a chill sweeping through the country’s technology industry. The lavish financing that promising…
• The newest version of Boeing’s most popular jet is under scrutiny after a deadly crash on Sunday, leading several airlines around the world to ground their fleets’ 737 Max 8 planes. • Investigators have not determined the cause of Sunday’s crash and have yet to locate the plane’s flight data recorder. The circumstances were…
Pressure on Boeing Co. escalated after China grounded all flights of the U.S. planemaker’s newest 737 jet, following the second deadly crash of the best-selling narrow-body in five months. The shares fell in early U.S. trading. A day after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed and killed all 157 people on board, Africa’s biggest carrier also…
President Donald Trump will reportedly ask Congress for $8.6 billion in the 2020 budget for the construction of a wall along the southern US border. Reuters reported Sunday that when Trump submits his 2020 congressional budget Monday, he will be asking for more than six times what Congress allowed for border projects in each of…
