WASHINGTON/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April after a top medical adviser said more than 100,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus outbreak. The reversal by Trump, which he…
Image copyright Bundesministerium Image caption Austria has issued an arrest warrant for Igor Egorovich Zaytsev. Austria has issued an arrest warrant for a Russian military officer it says recruited a colonel who allegedly spent 30 years spying for Moscow. Police in Salzburg said European and international warrants had been issued for the officer, named by…
Would've made writing this easier — The key was to think of this as a translation problem. John Timmer - Mar 30, 2020 10:41 pm UTC Enlarge / Several generations of neural implants from Neuralink.For people with limited use of their limbs, speech recognition can be critical for their ability to operate a computer. But…
ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress in the fight against opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to hold drugmakers accountable for their part in the crisis, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the…
Enlarge / A Seattle jury found Huawei liable in a civil lawsuit brought by T-Mobile for theft of robotic tech. Now the DOJ is ready to file criminal charges. In the wake of a civil lawsuit by T-Mobile and other telecommunications companies against the Chinese networking and telecommunications company Huawei, the US Department of Justice…
Twinkle, twinkle, black hole star — After nearly 30 years, VLT's new observations show star moves in rosette-shaped orbit Jennifer Ouellette - Apr 16, 2020 9:15 pm UTC It's been nearly 30 years in the making, but scientists with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) collaboration in the Atacama Desert in Chile have now measured, for…
H2WHOA — With its second-generation fuel cell, Toyota could be turning a tech corner. Jim Resnick - Oct 10, 2019 10:57 pm UTC Enlarge / Toyota wouldn't let us take photos of the Mirai, but it shared these images.When Toyota announced the original Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle in 2015—"Mirai" meaning "future" in Japanese—the…
Image copyright European Photopress Agency If women ran every country in the world there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, former US President Barack Obama has said.Speaking in Singapore, he said women aren't perfect, but are "indisputably better" than men.He said most of the problems in the world came from old…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that U.S. authorities would begin next week removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees arrive at FCI Victorville federal prison in Victorville, California, U.S. June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon “Next week ICE will begin the…
Bad move — "When we are divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us." Beth Mole - Apr 15, 2020 11:23 pm UTC Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquaters in Geneva on March…
