When Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi begins trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday (July 9), investors will be betting on whether founder Lei Jun…

In this age of globalization few events draw more attention than sport as the World Cup in Russia illustrates with billions of people across the…

New data from NPD Bookscan show that in the first half of 2018, print sales rose 4% and total unit sales increased 2% compared to…

The US fertility rate is at a record low. Researchers are quick to look to the economy as explanation yet the falling rate has persisted…

The US celebrated the 242nd anniversary of its independence this week, roiled by fallout from the Trump administration’s family-separations policy at the same time it…

Yesterday, the Spanish government announced it would restore a policy offering free fertility treatment to lesbians and single women, a measure the previous administration cancelled…

AirPods “just work.” They’re one of Apple’s newer products that have an innovative design, are functional, and have the potential to change the way we…

Marvel’s latest tent-pole wonder Ant-man and the Wasp enters its first full box office weekend. With a strong box-office opening estimated at $87 million, the…

It went largely unremarked, just another bland procedural decision from a government agency. But a quiet policy change at the United States Citizenship and Immigration…

America’s generations-old battle over who gets to live in this nation of immigrants is raging anew, and the agency known as ICE has become a…

Ekim is a French food tech startup. Recently, it raised €2.2 million ($2.5 million) in venture capital to disrupt the pizza business with robots. Pizza-making…

In an interview earlier this year with the New York Times (paywall), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he could have never imagined a future in…