Amazon’s headquarters are in Seattle. It’s searching for a place to put a second headquarters. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Amazon has whittled down 238 applicants to 20 finalists across North America for its second headquarters. During the bidding process, which began in early September last year, cities across the continent made […]
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WASHINGTON — The official White House line is that President Donald Trump visited a factory in western Pennsylvania on Thursday to highlight how his signature tax cut is boosting the economy. And the president himself said he went to “give my total support” to the Republican candidate for a March […]
Smart speakers are here to stay Sarah Tew/CNET There will come a day, and probably pretty soon, where pretty much every standalone speaker will have a voice-operated assistant inside of it. In the same way way that most TVs today have integrated “smarts” in the form of streaming apps for […]
The killer 90mph winds, named Storm Friederike in Germany, are crossing the country from west to east and the storm is expected to hit Poland overnight. Falling trees and debris have killed three people in Holland, as shocking footage showed people being blown over by the powerful gales. A German […]
The clip, shot on January 5, was captured by a Canadian family who entitled it: “”Remarkable footage shows a huge Bigfoot walking through the Canadian wilderness.” It appears to show a mysterious creature lurking behind trees on the edge of a thickly-forested area. They uploaded it the YouTube channel Modern […]
Currently, influenza vaccines must be changed every year because the viruses are constantly evolving. More Experiments in lab animals have shown signs of success for a newly engineered flu virus that may lead one day to a more effective vaccine, researchers said Thursday. Trials in humans are still a long […]
Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key.
Scholars have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a finding that the researchers said represents a ‘new chapter in the history of glass technology.’