Cold War

U.S. and China Are Both to Blame for a Tech Cold War

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday it was important to prevent the United States and China, locked in a trade dispute, from sliding into a new Cold War. Guterres was speaking on a panel alongside Russian Preside…

Joyent, a cloud company that was acquired by Samsung three years ago, announced Thursday that it's discontinuing its public cloud offering, which competed with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud. Like the leading AWS, Joyent allow…

JAPAN HAD long since lost its lead in electronics. Or so many thought. When an earthquake and tsunami hit the country in 2011, its continued centrality to the industry quickly became apparent. Copper foils for printed circuit boards, silicon wafers to make ch…

HAVANA (Reuters) - Lazaro Hernandez, who has made a good living showing U.S. cruise ship passengers around Havana in his pink 1950s Chevrolet, says the new U.S. ban on cruises to Cuba will wipe out 90% of his business overnight. Hernandez is one of thousand…

AT THE END of 1989, an American in London received a call from a friend back home. The caller had watched the fall of the Berlin Wall and the toppling of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania with growing dismay. He was at the end of a four-year course in Russian Stud…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin US-China tech race  photo credit: Getty Getty The United States and China are competing for global dominance of world-changing technologies. Its a pivotal moment. In the ebb and flow of histor…

The U.S. Air Force's E-4B, otherwise known as the "doomsday plane" may be able to withstand the force of a nuclear detonation. This mostly windowless Boeing 747 was designed during the Cold War, and it indeed looks like a blast from the past, according to CN…

Huawei has stopped smartphone production after previously announcing its target to become the world's top smartphone vendor by next year, according to a report from the South China Morning Post. The report specified that the halt was by Foxconn, "the Taiwane…

South Korean troops stationed along the world's last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in the face of a new infiltration threat from the nuclear-armed Northfever-stricken wild boar. An outbreak of African swine fever that has cut swathes through …