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Enlarge (credit: Getty |Mark Boster) Of all the frights you might experience between now and Halloween, this one might be the worst: Chinese scientists have genetically engineered pigs to be reduced-fat. They meant well. The engineering created hardier, leaner pigs that the scientists argue will improve pig welfare and cut losses and energy use on farms. […]
Reuters Apple’s new Watch made lots of headlines on Wednesday — but for all the wrong reasons. The latest version of the company’s wrist-worn gadget — the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE — was found to have an embarrassing glitch. It turns out that the watch’s LTE cellular connectivity, which is supposed to let users make […]
Warning: Spoilers of “Game of Thrones” season seven, episode seven “The Dragon and the Wolf.” And just like that, one of the biggest bad guys in “Game of Thrones” is now dead. After a frustrating season in Winterfell, the season seven finale of “Game of Thrones” delivered the death that fans have been yearning for […]
Thomson Reuters Citigroup beat second-quarter earnings Friday thanks in part to its soaring fixed income business. The bank reported quarterly earnings of $ 1.28 per share, eclipsing Wall Street estimates of $ 1.22 per share. “During the quarter, we sawcontinued momentum in ourbusinesses, with loan andrevenue growth across both sidesof the house,” Citi CEO Michael Corbat […]
Enlarge / Sen. Richard Shelby, (R-Ala.) speaks during a Senate Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing in 2016. (credit: NASA) As part of the annual US budget process, the NASA administrator meets with the appropriations subcommittees in the Senate and House to discuss the president’s budget request. Under the new president, NASA doesn’t […]
The mogul president’s name is synonymous with real estate. But as Donald Trump enthusiastically holds forth on America’s “crumbling” infrastructure, the “collapsing” Affordable Care Act or “witch hunt” investigations of his administration, housing talk has been conspicuously absent at a critical turning point. According to a new Harvard University study, America’s housing market has finally […]
Warner Bros / San Andreas Trillions of dollars in Treasurys are set to flood the US investment landscape over the next five years, setting up a reckoning in one of the world’s biggest markets. Even in a best case scenario, it will result in a $ 1 trillion shortfall in bond demand that will need to be absorbed […]
WASHINGTON – More than 65 percent of 46.2 million recalled Takata airbag inflators in the United States have not been repaired, a US senator said on Thursday, urging automakers to speed up the pace of repairs. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said only 15.8 million inflators out of 46.2 million inflators recalled to date have […]
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Volkswagen AG said on Friday the company has bought back or repaired more than half of 475,000 polluting 2.0-liter diesel vehicles under a US government settlement, just six months after it launched the largest-ever automotive repurchase offer. The world’s largest automaker said in a letter to a US judge overseeing the settlement that as of […]
