Elon Musk Might Take Tesla Private in a Move That Values the Company at $82 Billion
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk said he’s considering taking Tesla Inc. private in a radical step that would ease pressure on the money-losing automaker. The announcement, …
A Chinese Space Lab is Going to Fall to Earth — And Nobody Knows Where It Will Land
Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 (or “heavenly palace”) is set to fall back to Earth some time at the end of March or beginning of April. …
The True History of America’s Private Prison Industry
Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the …
Almost 80% of U.K. Companies Pay Women Less Than Men
More than 10,000 employers in the United Kingdom publicly reported their gender pay gap data Wednesday as a result of a 2017 regulation aimed at …
3 Things I Learned After One Month With Apple’s HomePod
Apple may have gotten a head start on virtual assistants when Siri arrived on the iPhone 4s back in 2011. But rivals Amazon and Google …
WhatsApp Fights Fake News With Message Forwarding Restrictions
In the latest case of social media privacy and security limitations, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has announced it will restrict the number of times an …
Take a Good Look at Saturn Before It’s Too Late, Because It’s Losing Its Rings
It ain’t St. Louis without the Gateway Arch, it ain’t Mount Rushmore without the Presidents, and it sure ain’t Saturn without the rings. That, at …
‘It’s Not Good.’ Mark Zuckerberg Discusses the #DeleteFacebook Campaign
After days of silence following allegations that data firm Cambridge Analytica pulled personal data from 50 million Facebook users for its work on Donald Trump’s …
The Fall of Rome and the Lessons for America
IDEAS Edward J. Watts is the author of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny. He holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is professor …
Manchester United given major transfer boost after surprise Liverpool decision
Manchester United will have one less rival in the transfer battle over Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey as it seems Liverpool are not set to pursue …