Coronavirus Outbreak Threatening 2020 Olympics Plans

Coronavirus Outbreak Threatening 2020 Olympics Plans

Posted by on Feb 27th, 2020

There is just under five months to go before the scheduled opening of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but now the coronavirus outbreak is threatening to derail what is the world’s largest sporting event. The Olympics are set to... 
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Dead At 91

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Dead At 91

Posted by on Feb 25th, 2020

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, the country’s state-run TV has announced. Egypt held a military funeral for Mubarak, with current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi briefly leading... 
Antarctic Heat Wave Sparks Massive Snow Melt

Antarctic Heat Wave Sparks Massive Snow Melt

Posted by on Feb 23rd, 2020

A heat wave in Antarctica melted about 20 percent of an Antarctic island’s snow in only nine days. Images released by NASA showed Eagle Island on the northeastern peninsula of the continent at the start and end of the heat wave.... 
Flywheel Sports Settles With Peloton Over Patent Infringement

Flywheel Sports Settles With Peloton Over Patent Infringement

Posted by on Feb 21st, 2020

Exercise company Flywheel Sports has settled with competitor Peloton to end a lawsuit that began back in 2018. Peloton sued Flywheel that September claiming corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. As part of the settlement,... 
SpaceX Embracing Space Tourism With Space Adventures

SpaceX Embracing Space Tourism With Space Adventures

Posted by on Feb 19th, 2020

SpaceX has signed an agreement with space tourism company Space Adventures to potentially use its Crew Dragon spacecraft take space tourists out of Earth’s atmosphere. Those spacecraft are the same ones that will be used by... 
Cash Becomes Latest Casualty Of Coronavirus

Cash Becomes Latest Casualty Of Coronavirus

Posted by on Feb 17th, 2020

China’s central bank has implemented a new strategy to reduce further spread of the novel coronavirus: deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash. According to an announcement from the People’s Bank of China, all... 
Facebook Releases New App Similar To Pinterest

Facebook Releases New App Similar To Pinterest

Posted by on Feb 15th, 2020

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released a new app that some are saying is remarkably similar to Pinterest. The new app is called Hobbi and it is an editor and organizer for hobbies and projects that the user is interested in.... 
Scientists Analyzing Repeating Radio Signal From Space

Scientists Analyzing Repeating Radio Signal From Space

Posted by on Feb 13th, 2020

Researchers have discovered a repeating radio signal that they have traced to a single source a half-billion light-years away. Researchers looking at data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst... 
Pete Rose Gets Presidential Support For Reinstatement

Pete Rose Gets Presidential Support For Reinstatement

Posted by on Feb 11th, 2020

Former Cincinnati Reds baseball star Pete Rose has asked once again to be reinstated by Major League Baseball. Rose is petitioning to remove his name from Major League Baseball’s ineligible list and his campaign has the... 
Antarctic Peninsula Sees Record Breaking Temperatures

Antarctic Peninsula Sees Record Breaking Temperatures

Posted by on Feb 9th, 2020

It’s not typical for the temperatures in Antarctica to be nearly the same as those in Southern California, but that is what happened in the first week of February. That week, the weather in the Antarctic Peninsula reached a... 
Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment

Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment

Posted by on Feb 7th, 2020

Chinese authorities are now deploying drones to help in the fight against the new coronavirus outbreak. Videos have emerged on the Twitter-like Chinese social media platform Weibo of interactions between citizens and the unmanned... 
Macy’s Launches New Cost-cutting Effort

Macy’s Launches New Cost-cutting Effort

Posted by on Feb 5th, 2020

Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) is launching a new $1.5-billion cost-cutting plan to revive its business. Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement, “We are taking the organization through significant structural change to lower... 
New Flavored Vaping Ban Has Big Loophole

New Flavored Vaping Ban Has Big Loophole

Posted by on Feb 3rd, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is banning most flavored e-cigarettes, but the ban has a big loophole that some are saying defeats the main purpose of the ban. While the ban only allows menthol and tobacco flavors for refillable cartridge-based... 
Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened

Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened

Posted by on Feb 1st, 2020

A ban on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines outside of the Korean Peninsula has been lightened by the Trump administration. A new Defense Department policy will be released detailing out how and when U.S. military commanders... 
Practice Fusion Settles Criminal And Civil Charges

Practice Fusion Settles Criminal And Civil Charges

Posted by on Jan 30th, 2020

Silicon Valley start-up Practice Fusion has agreed to pay $145 million in fines to resolve criminal and civil charges related to obtaining kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for promoting their products and misrepresenting...