‘The power that we need to claim is our own’ More In 2006, TIME magazine named “You” as the Person of the Year, recognizing the shift that had taken place on the internet. Users had become the drivers of the World Wide Web. YouTube made users producers, Wikipedia made users […]
Daily Archives: March 8, 2018
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The neo-fascist party’s office in Trento, Italy was attacked yesterday, with a homemade bomb thrown through the front window. It comes amid rising tensions following the Italian election earlier this month, with the CasaPound party claiming antifascists have moved beyond debate to violence. The attackers scrawled graffiti on the wall […]
The ‘unfair’ tariffs announced by the hardline Republican mark a shift in US trade policy from multilateralism to protectionism, in line with the president’s ‘America First’ rhetoric. And Jean-Marc Siroën said: “The United States can leave the WTO and exert pressure on other countries to follow suit. “He can also […]
White House officials said specifics of Trump’s plan remained fluid More (WASHINGTON) — After a week of hints and uncertainty, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would announce tariffs on imported steel and aluminum but with temporary exemptions for Canada and Mexico as he seeks to revise the North American […]
The U.S. Just Issued a Travel Warning for a Popular Mexican Resort Town More The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has issued a travel warning for a popular tourist hotspot, following a “security threat” alert and an explosion aboard a ferry last month. The embassy is barring U.S. government employees from […]
Your movement could power your phoneMartin Dimitrov/Getty By Leah Crane Someday, you may be able power your electronics just by moving around. A new nanogenerator that acts like a second skin and harvests energy from human motions can easily generate enough power to light 20 small LEDs. Ting Liu at […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE To the average sports fan, Disney handed James Pitaro a dream job earlier this week when it named him president of ESPN. But to media insiders, the job could be viewed as a […]