BIG BLUE is donning red headgear. Even a few months ago the idea that IBM, a venerable corporate information-technology (IT) firm, would buy Red Hat, the biggest vendor of open-source software, would have been considered highly unlikely, not least because of IBM’S aversion to big mergers. But on October 28th IBM announced that it would…
Customers walk into an Apple Store after Apple's new iPhone XS and XS Max went on sale in Beijing, China September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Tuesday is expected to unveil updates to its Mac computers and iPads that include facial recognition features that have been available in the iPhone…
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to end what he called the "ridiculous" practice of extending citizenship to children of unauthorized immigrants born in the US. "It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment," to end the practice called "birthright citizenship," Trump told Axios's Jonathan Swan. "Guess what?…
BEFORE SETTING the budget each year, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer is given a revised set of fiscal forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the official fiscal watchdog. In recent years the chancellor has looked through his fingers as he turned the pages: time and again since the financial crisis of 2008, Britain’s…
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on Monday took her first concrete steps to move away from political life, saying she would give up leadership of her conservative party while vowing to finish out her term as chancellor until 2021. Ms. Merkel made her announcement, in a meeting of conservative leaders, after two disastrous…
Well, we've never seen this version of the Wii remote before! Behold: a GameCube port on a wired Wii-like controller. Yahoo Auctions This controller comes with a sensor bar, meant to plug into a GameCube's memory-card port. This image includes the final Wii sensor bar for comparison's sake. This one-handed "nunchuk" controller looks nearly identical…
BRAZILIANS FACE an awful choice. One candidate in the presidential run-off on October 28th is Jair Bolsonaro, a seven-term congressman who venerates dictators and guns, goads police to kill suspected criminals, threatens to banish opponents and belittles women, blacks and gays. His rival is Fernando Haddad, the nominee of the leftist Workers’ Party(PT). Its 13…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) - The commercial opens with an appeal to fear: a hoodie-wearing man prowling an alley, knife in hand. His face remains hidden but the ad makes it clear: He’s an illegal immigrant. FILE PHOTO: Thousands of Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence move in a caravan toward the United States, in Santa Rosa…
LONDON — Stocks are sinking, again, after disappointing earnings reports from US tech giants Amazon, Google and Snap weighed on an already gloomy global sentiment in markets this week. US stocks have been having a rocky "red October," with catalysts ranging from fears about a China trade war, the Fed raising interest rates, and a…
WHAT IS THE biggest problem facing America? Or Japan? Or Britain? Or France? Opinions vary, naturally, but some worries crop up again and again. Those of a materialist bent point to decades of slow growth in median incomes, which has bred disillusion and anger among working people. Fiscal hawks decry huge public debts, destined to…
