Toyota has recalled about 65,000 of its cars due to air bags that could explode and hurl shrapnel at the driver or passengers, the company announced Wednesday. The recall includes certain 2003-2005 Corollas, 2002-2005 Sequoias, 2003-2005 Tundras and 2002-2005 Lexus SC cars in the U.S., a release from the company stated. The vehicles were part […]
Using knives and shears, a pair of Russian spacewalkers Tuesday cut samples of material around a mysterious hole in a Soyuz spacecraft docked on the International Space Station that a Moscow official suggested could have been deliberate sabotage. Roscosmos space agency said the aim was to discover whether the “small but dangerous” hole had been […]
Discussing metabolism has become more mainstream over the years, especially in the health and wellness world, which is why it’s important to fully understand what metabolism is and how your metabolism works. If you have a slow metabolism (we’ve got more on how to determine that in a bit), Holly Lofton, MD, director of the […]
The explosion in online shopping has led to porch pirates and stoop surfers swiping holiday packages from unsuspecting residents. The cops in one New Jersey city are trying to catch the thieves with some trickery of their own. Police in Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York, are teaming up with Amazon to […]
Sometimes the scope of the strikeout matters. When Verizon acquired Yahoo for $4.8 billion in 2016 after spending $4.4 billion for AOL a year earlier, investors and analysts were skeptical. It turns out they were right to be. Verizon announced Tuesday it was writing off $4.6 billion from those two deals, erasing nearly half of […]
Former IMF Chief Economist and current Harvard University Professor of Economics and Public Policy Kenneth Rogoff believes that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently amount to little more than “lottery tickets” at this moment in time. Writing in the Guardian on Monday, Rogoff stated that while some believe that cryptocurrencies have had their day and are […]
Saudi Arabia could reduce its daily crude oil shipments abroad by as much as 1 million barrels next month, Reuters reports, quoting unnamed sources close to Riyadh. According to them, the move would be motivated by weaker demand due to seasonal patterns in consumption and Saudi Arabia’s commitment to the new production cut agreed last […]
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has reached interstellar space at about 11 billion miles from Earth, making it only the second human-made object to do so, according to the space agency. Why it matters: Voyager 2, which joins its twin Voyager 1 in crossing the heliopause (the boundary between the hot solar wind and cold, interstellar […]
The ban of some Apple iPhones in China shows that intellectual property rights are still determined by national borders. Qualcomm announced Monday that a court in China — the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court — had granted the chipmaker’s request for two preliminary injunctions against four of Apple’s Chinese subsidiaries for patent infringement. The two patents […]
Oil prices spiked on Friday on news from Vienna. OPEC+ managed to pull off an eleventh-hour agreement, checking all the boxes after a contentious set of meetings. There were a lot of competing interests at play, but the agreement offers a little bit of everything, enough for all parties to walk away satisfied. The headliner […]
The arrest of a top Huawei executive has roiled the business world and threatens to derail the tenuous trade truce between the United States and China. Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese tech company’s chief financial officer, was detained in Vancouver on December 1 at the request of US authorities. She’s accused by the United States of […]
December is often a cloudy and stormy month, but it’s also the month in which the Geminid meteor showers take place. Even though there can be up to 50 or 60 meteors per hour it doesn’t matter if the clouds are overhead or there is too much moonlight. But this year in this very dry […]
