A “smart” drinking glass embedded with a microchip gathers data on drinker preferences for beverage companies, while the customer is offered perks and promotions in exchange. Roselle Chen reports. Is this cool? … Continue reading Smart glass taps into beer drinker’s data 

Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, according to a biodiversity report. “The figures suggest that animals living in lakes, rivers and wetlands are suffering the biggest losses.” Is this … Continue reading World wildlife ‘falls by 58% in 40 years’ – BBC News

The DNC accused Republicans in a court filing of violating a longstanding consent decree, which restricts Republicans’ ability to question voters at the polls and prevent those people from casting a ballot. … Continue reading Democrats ask judge to sanction Republicans over Trump | Reuters

“Even though breaking a hole on the Great Wall may not be a problem as long as it is part of a worldwide phenomenon, it is actually unnecessary because it will not … Continue reading How Sony sanitized the new Adam Sandler movie “Pixels” to please China

While the US political-media establishment has uncritically stated the allegation as fact, a MIT expert, professor Theodore Postol, has written that there is “no technical way that the US intelligence community could … Continue reading Did the White House Declare War on Russia? | The Nation

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz predicted in a interview out on Wednesday that Italy and other countries would leave the euro zone in coming years, and he blamed the euro and German … Continue reading Nobel laureate Stiglitz sees Italy, others leaving euro zone in coming years

Interesting point about a Job Guarantee and how it is used to set the value of the dollar. The speaker is Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of … Continue reading A Job Guarantee Would Set The Price Of The Dollar

IBACH – “Our company has never been as hard-hit as it was by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York and Washington,” the 55-year-old Elsener says. Almost overnight, after sharp … Continue reading Swiss Army Knife maker Victorinox, lost 40% of business post 9/11 and fired no one

Obama and Kerry say there is no military solution to the war. Russia and Syria think there is. One of the truly most remarkable miscommunications in this war is between the U.S. … Continue reading A ferocious assault on Aleppo suggests the U.S. may be wrong on Syria

Nuclear weapons are considered to be some of the world’s most dangerous armaments. Categorized as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), they have the capability of leveling cities, killing millions, and destroying the … Continue reading Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation: Effects and Need of WMDs

The picture of Omran Daqneesh, a 5-year-old injured in an Aleppo airstrike, inspired Alex, of Scarsdale, N.Y., to invite him into his family. A little boy, who was so moved by the … Continue reading ‘We will give him a family’: A 6-year-old boy writes Obama about having a refugee ‘brother’ – The Washington Post

A person who was shot at a protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, is in critical condition, the city tweeted. Amidst the terrors continuously hounding the world today, the United States is still … Continue reading Charlotte protest: One person shot during violence; officer wounded – CNN.com