DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The police in Bangladesh filed formal murder charges on Monday against 41 people accused of involvement in the 2013 collapse of a building that housed several clothing factories, leaving more than 1,100 people dead in the worst disaster in garment industry history. … [Read more...]
Intel Agrees to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion
Intel said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire the smaller chip maker Altera for $16.7 billion. The deal comes after the two American companies held talks earlier this year. Further discussions had been delayed, however, when Altera rejected an earlier offer by Intel, people briefed on the talks have said. … [Read more...]
New Tactics for Battling Head Lice
Relatively few school-age children escape the scourge of head lice, among the many organisms that show no respect for socioeconomic status or hygiene. Even though the insects do not endanger health or spread disease, head lice often provoke extreme anxiety and disgust among parents, and the time and money spent detecting and eradicating them costs consumers and schools an … [Read more...]
Sounders 2, Red Bulls 1: Red Bulls Fall on Late Goal by Sounders
SEATTLE -- Chad Barrett scored 30 seconds into second-half stoppage time to give the Seattle Sounders a 2-1 comeback victory over the Red Bulls on Sunday. … [Read more...]
Tropics Heating Up in Eastern Pacific
Hurricane season doesn’t officially begin until Monday, but the tropics are already plenty active in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with one hurricane already churning and another named storm likely just hours away from forming. … [Read more...]
The World’s Coming Broadband Divide
Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, in New York last October. “Bandwidth is a huge factor for productivity,” he said recently. Several events last week pointed out how much business success, economic development and even international competition is starting to depend on once unimaginably fast Internet speeds. … [Read more...]
Calmer Skies Ahead for Flood-Stricken Texas
After catastrophic and deadly flooding across much of Texas and Oklahoma over the last few weeks, a calmer and mercifully drier pattern is settling in across the region, and it looks like it will stick around well into the start of June. … [Read more...]
Google Wants to Turn Your Clothes Into a Computer
If you thought it was only a matter of time before Google tried to turn your pants into a computer, well, guess what, you were right. Google’s Project Jacquard is aimed at weaving computing capabilities into clothing. … [Read more...]
Vice President’s Son, Beau Biden, Mourned on Social Media – Newsweek
Beau Biden, left, and his father, Vice President Joe Biden, pictured here at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 27, 2008. Beau Biden died at age 46 after a battle with brain cancer, his father said Saturday. Chris Wattie/Reuters … [Read more...]
5 Ways ‘Jaws’ Changed Movies Forever
The summer blockbuster, as we now know it, essentially began 40 years ago with the release of one movie: "Jaws." The Steven Spielberg classic, based on the Peter Benchley novel about an enormous killer shark, premiered on movie screens in June 1975 and will be returning to the big screen later this month. Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Universal Pictures will … [Read more...]