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Google’s latest attempt to power internet connectivity in Africa will involve invisible light beams transmitted at high altitudes.Through “P...

On the evening of Nov. 3, and through the following days, liberal American voters who hoped to see a blue tsunami overtake Congress and the...

Ethiopia’s government, under prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive in Tigray, Ethiopia’s most northern state. A si...

Over the past 20 years, the share of Americans working in their 70s rose from less than 10% in 2000 to nearly 15% today. Assuming president...

After living through the recent turbulent years in the US, you might think Americans would be yearning for escape into fictional worlds, nes...

India’s burgeoning middle-class and young population is the perfect recipe for international fashion and lifestyle trends to take root. Snea...

Alex Trebek, who hosted the popular TV game show Jeopardy! for 36 years, died over the weekend at the age of 80 from pancreatic cancer. Know...

Several companies that saw huge boosts to their stock prices during the pandemic sank deeply this morning after Pfizer announced its vaccine...

On Nov. 9, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced promising early results for their Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Data from a late-stage cl...

When US president-elect Joe Biden takes his place at the White House in January, he will do so with two powerful, professional women by his...

On Monday (Nov. 9), the dynamic drug company duo of Pfizer and BioNTech announced that early results from their late-stage Covid-19 vaccine...

The fossil fuel industry is banking on the expectation that once people get a Covid-19 vaccine, they’ll start driving and flying again. And...

In 2016, Donald Trump considered launching his own TV network if he lost the US presidential election. His unexpected win squashed that poss...

The 2020 US election was a nail-biter that also had far-reaching geopolitical implications; an ‘America first’ vision of the world faced off...

As we discussed here last week, despite the challenges of its own democratic processes, the US will still have a huge say and influence over...

A few months ago, former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein suggested that the stock market didn’t seem worried about a Biden administration,...

It was a million-dollar mistake.Several years ago, I ran a startup that offered citation and writing tools to help students with research pa...

It’s day 1, and the Biden administration is already proving to be more diverse than its predecessor.Vivek Murthy, former US surgeon general,...

The Northeast Passage is a sea route that squeezes between Russia and the North Pole, down past Alaska, and on to China. For most of the yea...

At least 158.8 million people voted in this year’s US presidential election.That’s some 20 million more than the 137.5 million Americans who...

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems that, for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost everything that...

In 2018, artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee estimated that AI and automation would take over half of human work in 15 years. The pand...

Indian IT companies have a reason to celebrate—and their investors are not holding back.Joe Biden’s win has come as a relief after nearly fo...

A slew of global leaders have been quick to congratulate Joe Biden on his election as the next US president, including Tsai Ing-wen, the lea...

On the afternoon of Nov. 4, as the national capital was engulfed in a toxic haze, 20-year-old student Sajid Hussain stood at the traffic sig...