Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images Donald Trump was the first billionaire to enter the White House when he became the 45th President. Forbes estimates he is worth $ 3 billion, with a property empire including Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Other assets he controls include hotels, office buildings, and […]
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Blood clots: Hot drink enjoyed by billions of people could cause ‘thicker blood’ warns doc
THE DRINK can spur on clotting through dehydration, warned Doctor Monika Wassermann, MD at Boutiquetoyou.com. The harmful process can afflict various areas of the body.
US kleptocrats & multinationals rip off taxpayers by parking billions offshore – economist to RT
Tax havens are used as an instrument to increase the profitability of US multinationals at the expense of the public, according to investigative economist and lawyer James Henry. He told RT that there’s a tiny group of the world’s elite professionals, banks, law firms, and accounting firms that make a nice living from the global […]
Chop-chop: Saudis may cut billions in military contracts & petrodollar in response to US sanctions
US penalties against Saudi Arabia over the alleged murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi may never be implemented. But just in case, the oil-rich kingdom has threatened to hit back using several effective weapons. Washington pledged ‘severe punishment’ if the Saudis ordered the killing of Khashoggi, a Saudi-born journalist, who disappeared nearly two weeks […]
British automaker group meets with EU, says Brexit could cost billions
[unable to retrieve full-text content] ‘Our industry is deeply integrated across both sides of the Channel.’ Continue reading British automaker group meets with EU, says Brexit could cost billions British automaker group meets with EU, says Brexit could cost billions originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms […]
Malaysia’s former prime minister has been arrested in a corruption investigation after billions of dollars went missing on his watch
Nicky Loh/Getty Images Najib Razak, the former Malaysian Prime Minister, was arrested at his house in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Razak is the subject of a corruption investigation after billions of dollars went missing from a state investment fund that he set up. He has long denied allegations of misappropriating funds. Najib Razak, the former […]
LTE wireless connections used by billions aren’t as secure as we thought
(credit: BAZ Antennen) The Long Term Evolution mobile device standard used by billions of people was designed to fix many of the security shortcomings in the predecessor standard known as Global System for Mobile communications. Mutual authentication between end users and base stations and the use of proven encryption schemes were two of the major […]
How startups are building driverless cars without Google’s billions
Enlarge / Voyage operates low-speed self-driving taxis in two retirement communities. (credit: Voyage) There’s near-universal agreement that Google spinoff Waymo is the leading company in the driverless-vehicle business. And Waymo’s strategy for developing fully driverless cars is very expensive. Before launching a commercial driverless car service, Waymo needs to convince itself—and the world—that its cars will […]
Facebook trained image recognition AI with billions of Instagram pics
Training deep learning models to recognize image,s as well as objects within those images, takes quite a bit of effort. Often, each training image has to be labeled by humans and when you’re using millions of images, that process becomes rather labor-intensive. Scaling up to billions of images becomes nearly impossible. So, Facebook has been […]
Trump’s meeting with a major tech CEO reportedly included a discussion about a potential Amazon-Pentagon deal worth billions
Alex Wong/Getty Images Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz reportedly discussed a Pentagon deal with President Donald Trump at a Tuesday dinner. Amazon and Oracle are competing for that contract, which will be worth billions. Trump has lobbed attacks at Amazon in recent days. But Trump reportedly did not indicate that he would interfere in the bidding […]