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| Dropbox soars more than 40% in its debut as a publicly-traded company It's a big day for Dropbox — the first marquee Web 2.0 name to go public this year and one of the biggest since Snap last year — which made its public debut today, with the stock soaring nearly 43% to around $30 in its first moments of trading. Today's debut for the enterprise-slash-consumer company is ...
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| How Much Energy Can You Store in a Rubber Band? How much energy can you store in a rubber band? Obviously, the answer depends on the size of the rubber band. I'm talking about, of course, the energy density or specific energy of an energy storage material. The energy density is defined as the energy per unit volume, and the specific energy is the ...
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| Ceasefire deal agreed in Syria's eastern Ghouta A ceasefire deal that will allow the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians and fighters under Russian guarantees has been reached in the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta. The agreement, which was confirmed by the spokesman of the second-largest rebel group in the area, will allow ...
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| Japan welcomed 20% more tourists in 2017 — and the number is growing More tourists — including mainland Chinese tourists who have a penchant for retail therapy — are helping to support merchants in an aging Japan. Tourist spending hit a record 4.42 trillion yen ($41.7 billion) in 2017 — in tandem with the surge in visitor numbers — a jump of 17.8 percent from a year ago ...
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| Here's how Cambridge Analytica played a dominant role in Kenya's chaotic 2017 elections The managing director of Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm at the center of a firestorm over its sway in multiple elections, was filmed describing its dominant role in Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's election campaigns in 2013 and 2017. "We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their ...
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| Planetary science wins big in NASA's new spending plan NASA's science programs get a big boost in the 2018 spending bill approved by Congress this week, allowing researchers to continue developing an orbiter and lander to study Jupiter's moon Europa and robot probes to return soil samples from Mars. Scientists were giddy over the 7.9% boost, to $6.2 ...
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| US charges nine Iranians in stealing data from hundreds of universities The Trump administration has announced criminal charges and sanctions against nine Iranians accused of participating in a government-sponsored hacking scheme to steal sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and US government agencies. The nine defendants ...
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| In court, Big Oil rejected climate denial Deniers filed briefs in support of the defense, but they contradicted Chevron's tutorial. For example, one brief filed by a group led by Christopher Monckton and Willie Soon began by stating, "The "consensus" about global warming is 0.3%, not 97%" (this is obviously incorrect). Another brief filed by ...
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| Step into Taschen's 'Golden Age of Travel' (CNN) — On a September morning in 1830, a throng of people gathered in the English cities of Liverpool and Manchester to see a daring feat of modernity. Nobles, tipsy workers and politicians watched the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first railroad on Earth whose cars would be ...
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| This Pregnant Medieval Woman With Head Wound 'Gave Birth' In Her Grave The burial, dating to the 7th-8th century AD, was found in the town of Imola in northern Italy in 2010. Because the adult skeleton was found face-up and intact, archaeologists determined it to be a purposeful burial in a stone-lined grave. The fetal remains between her legs and the injury to her head, ...
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| Pitch your business to me Richard Tom Charman founded city exploration app Kompas and had pitched brilliantly at a VOOM Tour stop in London, so was offered the chance to attend a pitching masterclass. As he started having a run-through on camera, the last thing he expected was for yours truly to walk in and sit down in front of him ...
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| International Watch: Seven Gunners in action Scroll down to find out how they got on: Sead Kolasinac assisted Bosnia and Herzegovina's winner in their friendly victory over Bulgaria in Razgrad. Our full back surged forward on the left-hand side before squaring a first-time cross to Kenan Kodro, who slotted home from close range. Granit Xhaka ...
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| Sentinel-3B launch preparations in full swing 23 March 2018. With the Sentinel-3B satellite now at the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and liftoff set for 25 April, engineers are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit. After arriving at the launch site on 18 March, the satellite has been ...
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| Azure DNS Private Zones now available in public preview We are pleased to announce the public preview of DNS Private Zones in all Azure Public cloud regions.
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