Alphabet Inc’s shareholders, including top executives, voted down several proposals on Wednesday, defeating campaigns to tie pay to diversity goals and to get the Google parent to provide more data about efforts to moderate user-generated content. Alphabet management, which effectively has voting control of the company, had moved against the proposals. Shareholders and employees said […]
Using new drilling techniques after a stalled electrical motor halted sampling operations on Mars, the Curiosity rover has delivered rock powder to one of its onboard lab instruments for analysis for the first time since 2016, officials said Monday. The rover’s percussive drill, mounted on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm, bored into a target […]
The frozen aisle in the grocery store gets no love. People often feel that if food isn’t fresh, it’s no good. We also often hear that frozen food has too many preservatives to be healthy. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. There are many incredibly high-quality, convenient frozen foods on the market. In […]
Tesla is producing 500 Model 3 vehicles a day, or an average 3,500 cars a week, Elon Musk said during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday. That puts Tesla on track to hit the crucial 5,000-per-week goal by the end of the June, he added. In early April, Tesla announced that it had officially missed […]
Britain’s government said Tuesday it was now prepared to give Twenty-First Century Fox the provisional go-ahead to buy Sky, subject to the sale of its Sky News channel. If approved, it could pave the way for a dramatic bidding war with U.S. media giant Comcast. Culture Secretary Matt Hancock said Fox’s proposal to divest Sky […]
It’s not exactly uncommon to struggle with healthy eating habits. Once you fall into a habit of any kind, it can feel difficult to break it, but it’s definitely not impossible! We spoke to Kym Ventola, wellness coach and founder of Nine Women’s Retreat, who gave us some useful insight into how you can change […]
A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide asteroid just hours before it reached Earth. NASA tracks 90 percent of near-Earth objects that are larger than 150 meters (~460 feet) in diameter, which means it misses lots of the smaller ones until they’re close by. This most […]
Twitter jumped as much as 5 percent in extended trading on Monday, after Dow Jones Indices announced the social media company would replace Monsanto in the S&P 500. Another tech company, Netflix will fill the agricultural giant’s place on the S&P 100. The gains pushed Twitter stock above $39 a share after hours, extending earlier […]
Howard Schultz is leaving Starbucks — and says he may consider running for president. Starbucks (SBUX) announced Monday that Schultz will step down later this month as executive chairman, the end of a 36-year run at the company. In an interview with The New York Times, he acknowledged that he may consider a bid for […]
Most women with early-stage breast cancer may be able to avoid chemotherapy, a new study finds. Researchers determined that patients with smaller-sized tumors that had not spread to the lymph nodes did just as well without chemo as those who got the treatment, according to the study presented Sunday at the American Society of Clinical […]
Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) have arrived safely back on Earth after a mission of more than five months. A Soyuz capsule carrying Russian Anton Shkaplerov, American Scott Tingle and Japan’s Norishige Kanai floated down under a red-and-white parachute for a landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Footage from the Russian […]
Asian shares rose to their highest in two-and-a-half-weeks on Monday as strong U.S. jobs data offset worries that tariff wars between the United States and the rest of the world could retard global economic growth. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 1.0 percent to a high last seen on May 17, while […]
