Image copyright Getty Images Ajinomoto, a Japanese company, is not a household name in the West - but a product it makes, monosodium glutamate, is notorious. Commonly referred to as MSG, the flavouring agent conjures up images of greasy meals followed by headaches.Now Ajinomoto has launched a campaign to recover MSG's reputation by taking on…
GOT CERT VALIDATION? — Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation. Dan Goodin - Jan 16, 2020 12:30 am UTC Enlarge / Chrome on Windows 10 as it Rickrolls the NSA.Less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever, a security researcher has demonstrated…
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China will boost purchases of U.S. goods and services by $200 billion over two years in exchange for the rolling back of some tariffs under an initial trade deal signed by the world’s two largest economies, defusing an 18-month row that has hit global growth. Key world stock market indexes climbed to…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Liu He and Donald Trump The US and China have signed an agreement aimed at easing a trade war that has rattled markets and weighed on the global economy.Speaking in Washington, US President Donald Trump said the pact would be "transformative" for the US economy.Chinese leaders called it a…
Busted — Group's online chats often had racist and anti-Semitic overtones. Timothy B. Lee - Jan 15, 2020 2:55 am UTC The US government has criminally charged a Virginia man for helping to organize dozens of "swatting" attacks and bomb threats made against a variety of targets in the United States and Canada. The man…
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian social media posts urged citizens to take to the streets for a fifth day on Wednesday, after public anger erupted following the belated admission by the authorities that they had shot down a passenger plane in error last week. Protesters demonstrate in Tehran, Iran January 11, 2020 in this picture obtained…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPresident Tsai Ing-wen tells China to “face reality” and show Taiwan respect Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has told the BBC that China needs to "face reality" and show the island "respect".She was re-elected for a second term on Saturday, winning by a landslide after a campaign in…
FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags are set up for a meeting during a visit by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao at China's Ministry of Transport in Beijing, China April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jason LeeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has pledged to buy nearly an additional $80 billion of manufactured goods from the United States over…
Image copyright EPA Image caption The attack last month occurred at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida Twenty-one members of the Saudi Arabian military are being expelled from the US after a cadet fatally shot sailors at a Florida air base last month.The servicemen are not accused of aiding the 21-year old Saudi Air Force…
Bare minimum — The benefit is limited to low earners during times of economic hardship. John Timmer - Jan 12, 2020 8:35 pm UTC In the US, suicide is a major public health issue, with double-digit percentages of the preventable deaths for adults under 45. And, disconcertingly, the rates have been rising over recent decades.…
