WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- At an unusual inauguration closed to public due to the still raging coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the Unit
A government worker wrings a bird's neck in Nandurbar District, Maharashtra, India, February 20, 2006. /Getty With less than 15 days into 2021, a pall of new health scare is hanging over Japa
Philips Hue bulbs are pretty great, but they have a mortal enemy: the humble light switch. If you’ve got a Hue bulb tied to a standard light switch, flipping that switch means the Hue bulb loses
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued new final rules to help pave the way for the re-introduction of supersonic commercial flight. The U.S. airspace regulator’s rules provi
A diver in a Santa Claus suit swims in a fish tank at the Kaiyukan aquarium in Osaka, Japan, November 27, 2020. /Kyodo News via Getty Between travel restrictions, social distancing rules and l
Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service operators, but the market is very fragmented, so adding paym
Portable audio recording solutions abound, and many recently released devices have done a lot to improve the convenience and quality of sound recording devices you can carry in your pocket – spurred i
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. /Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "optimistic" about striking a post-Brexit deal with the European Union but ready for Britain to trad
The British government told businesses on Tuesday to make sure they are ready for big changes when the U.K. makes its final Brexit break from the European Union in exac
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01:50 Western Union will close all its offices in Cuba this Thursday due to new U.S. sanctions announced last month by the Trump administration.The move will cut off remittances, the a
The company has introduced a new prompt challenging users when they like a labelled tweet to ask them to support "reliable info".
There's something uniquely Thai about attempting to bring down a government with concerts, performances and fashion shows. Despite the real threat of indiscriminate violence, the past few months o
03:10 The United Kingdom says it is ready for reasonable compromise as talks with the European Union over a future trade deal go down to the wire. But one major sticking point is over
Back before just about every major TV network built a streaming app of their own, watching live TV on your smartphone was… tricky.One of the first relatively simple options was the Slingbox. You
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg hit back at Donald Trump on Twitter late on Thursday saying the U.S. president should “chill” about the election, a riposte to h
One of the most active and notorious data-stealing ransomware groups, Maze, says it is “officially closed.”The announcement came as a waffling statement, riddled with spelling mistakes, an