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Japan's opposition bloc gears up to block controversial conspiracy bill

Japan'soppositionpartiesonWednesdaysubmittedano-confidencemotioninthejusticeministertothelowerhouseofparliamentandindoingsodelayedthepassageofacontroversialanti

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S. Korea: Communication channel with DPRK should reopen

SouthKorea’sUnificationMinistrysaidonWednesdaythatseveredcommunicationlinkswiththeDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKoreashouldreopen,asnewSouthKoreanPresidentMoonJae

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UK general election: Polls show May’s Conservatives hold 18% lead

BritishPrimeMinisterTheresaMay'sConservativePartyhasmaintaineditsleadinopinionpollsthreeweeksaheadofthecountry'sgeneralelectiononJune8.ApollbyKantarPublicshowed

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S. Korean politician raises possibility of returning THAAD

SouthKorea’srulingDemocraticPartyhasputforwardthepossibilityofreturningthecontroversialTHAADanti-missilesystemtotheUnitedStates.NationalAssemblymemberWooWon-shi

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Iranian vice president withdraws from presidential race to endorse Rouha

Iran'sFirstVicePresidentEshaqJahangirihaswithdrawnfromthecountry'spresidentialrace,inordertoendorseincumbentPresidentHassanRouhani.JahanigirisaidinastatementonT

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Kurds' complex ties in the Middle East and beyond

WithKurdishgroupshavingemergedasakeyforceinthefightagainstISILmilitantsinrecentyears,theethnicgrouphassomecomplexrelationshipswithvariousnationsintheMiddleEasta

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Putin: Effectiveness of Belt and Road Initiative will be proven

RussianPresidentVladimirPutinhasnotedthathiscountryhasalreadycarriedoutavarietyofbilateralinfrastructuredevelopmentprojectswithChina.PresidentPutinmadetheremark

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China clamps down on obscene content on online live streams

Chinahasseenexplosivegrowthinitsonlinelive-streamingsectorwithmillionsacrossthecountrybroadcastingtheirdailylivesinanattempttowinoverfansormakeafortune.Buthugeb

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Apple's iPad mini might not be long for this world

WhenAppledidn'tdomuchmoretotheiPadmini4thisspringbesidesincreasethestorage,itleftmorethanafewpeoplewonderingifthetinytabletisonitswayout.IfyoubelieveaBGRsource,

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BlackBerry KEYone review: You still want a physical keyboard in 2017

ThesmartphoneworldhasallbutmovedonfromBlackBerry.EvenBlackBerryitselfseemstohavemovedon,reinventingitselfasasoftwareandservicescompany.Itslatesteffortisn’tprodu

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Massive database containing over 560 million passwords discovered

Securityresearchershavediscoveredamassivedatabaseoflogincredentials—over560millionemailsandpasswords—puttogetherbyanunknownperson.Alloftheinformationisinsecure.

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NVIDIA introduces GeForce GT 1030 GPU

WehavebeenhearingabouttheNvidiaGT1030forsometimenowandweknowthatthisisanentry-levelGPUthatispricedunder$100andwillbecompetingwiththeRX550.Thespecificationsofthe

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AMD reveals Ryzen Threadripper with 16-cores and 32-threads

Aftersomeleaksandspeculations,AMDhasfinallyofficiallyrevealedtheirupcomingpowerfulCPUwithupto16-coresand32-threads–theRyzenThreadripper.TheAMDThreadripperisoneo

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Samsung sold over 5 million Galaxy S8 phones

SamsungwasquicktocrowaboutGalaxyS8pre-orders,butitwaseasytobeskepticalwithoutrealnumberstobackupthebragging.Flashforwardafewweeks,though,andit'sadifferentstory.

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'Shadow Brokers' threaten to release more hacking tools in June

Anexploitthatthe"WannaCry"malwareusedtoencryptcomputersworldwidefirstappearedinaleakfrom"TheShadowBrokers,"agroupthatclaimstohavestolenanumberoftoolsfromtheNSA.

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OpenAI’s new system lets you train robots entirely in VR

ElonMusk'sartificialintelligenceplatformOpenAIintroducedanewprogramtotrainrobotsentirelyinsimulation.Nowthey'veaddedanewalgorithm,namedone-shotimitationlearning

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European regulators push Facebook to tighten user privacy rules

AuthoritiesinFranceandtheNetherlandsarethelatesttospeakoutagainstthewayFacebookhandlesthemassiveamountsofuserdataitcollects.Inseparateannouncementstoday,privacy