Our call of the day looks at four big U.S. companies that have stumbled after a solid ride between 2016 and 2018. The Felder Report’s Jesse Felder says they need to get a lot cheaper.
President Trump said Wednesday he’s no puppet of the National Rifle Association. “They are Trump talking points,” he said when a reporter asked if he was parroting NRA talking points by moving away from supporting universal background checks.
“Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying $500,000 to college admissions swindler William “Rick” Singer to help get their daughters into USC.
Walmart Inc.’s lawsuit against Tesla Inc. over several roof fires that the retailer blames on solar panels is “yet another blow to the already tarnished” solar business at Tesla, analysts at ISI Evercore said in a note Wednesday.
Stock futures drift slightly lower on Thursday as investors shift their focus on the annual Federal Reserve symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo.,
Enlarge / It’s never a bad time to bust out your wheel—here’s the T-GT wheel. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Welcome to Ars Gaming Week 2019! As a staff full of gamers and game-lovers, we’ll be serving up extra reviews, guides, interviews, and other stories all about gaming from August 19 to August 23. Have your gaming …
Enlarge / The “Great White” bot from King of Bots. On Monday, several YouTube users had their videos removed from the service due to YouTube’s restrictions on animal fight footage. This was confusing, because the videos in question showed no animals fighting; instead, they showed robots battling. Robot combat has been around ever since Marc …
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Chinese state media have begun to hit back at Twitter and Facebook for decisions to remove content and accounts that the social media giants believe are part of a coordinated propaganda push led by Beijing to discredit the protests in Hong Kong. “Twitter and Facebook abused the freedom of the press when they chose to …
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Globally-adored bubble tea made headlines this month as Chinese consumers threatened to boycott brands they accused of supporting the anti-government protests in Hong Kong. The political drama is still brewing, and last week it crossed the Pacific. At the Toronto branch of Answer Tea, a chain famous for its “printable cheese mousse,” customer Dan Seljak-Byrne …
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Denmark’s youngest ever prime minister has had her job for just over two months. But she’s already making international headlines as the target of Donald Trump’s ire. On Wednesday, 41-year-old Mette Frederiksen made clear she didn’t want the U.S. president’s decision to cancel a state visit to Denmark to become a diplomatic crisis. Trump, who …
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