Hi-tech, cheap – and quiet. The Ivorian resort of Jacqueville, just outside the city of Abidjan, is betting on solar-powered three-wheelers as it looks to replace traditional but noisy and dirty bush taxis.
Facebook said Friday a dating service it teased early this year is being rolled out in Colombia. The social media giant chose the Latin American country as its test lab because Colombians are particularly avid fans of using social networks and websites to find partners.
NASA counted down Saturday to the launch of its $1 billion ICESat-2 mission, using advanced lasers to uncover the true depth of the melting of Earth's ice sheets.
Apple is trying to turn its smartwatch from a niche gadget into a lifeline to better health by slowly evolving it into a medical device.
Apple is expected to unveil its biggest and most expensive iPhone on Wednesday as part of a lineup of three new models aimed at widening the product's appeal...
It’s a question millions of parents want answered: Will the wildly popular online survival battle game “Fortnite” soon lose its grip on the attention of their...
Google is toeing the line between helping you save time and creeping you out as it turns to machines to suggest email replies on your behalf.
A recent pledge by Kalashnikov to compete with Elon Musk’s Tesla with a Russian retro “electric supercar” drew chuckles, but the legendary gun producer has...
Thousands of visitors, many of them dressed in traditional lederhosen or dirndl corseted dresses, descended on Munich Saturday for the start of the annual...
Milan designers were letting go of streetwear and turning back to the basics of elegant design on the second day of Milan Fashion Week.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Chrissy Teigen, Adele: The charge to destigmatize postpartum depression has never before had so many high-profile sufferers willing to share...
Advances in eye-exam technology could one day help doctors diagnose people with Alzheimer’s disease long before physical symptoms appear, researchers said...
In the corner of the Seaside Arena exhibition hall that is housing the Beirut Design Fair this week, a skeletal scaffold rises from the floor.
For a number of architects working in Lebanon, the smaller scale of furniture design is offering them the opportunity to experiment with balancing local...
Far from the packed beaches of Sicily’s busy coastlines, there’s a quieter and wilder world in its high mountains.
Standing outside their yellow hut on a ridge 3,200 meters above sea level, two French gendarmes peer through binoculars at a group of foreign climbers making...
Ford won't be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China - despite President Donald Trump's claim Sunday that his taxes on Chinese...
The Ford Mustang – an iconic American brand and a symbol of cool – reached a major milestone Wednesday as the 10 millionth vehicle rolled off an assembly line...
A piece of computer history that helped launch a trillion dollar company is hitting the auction block.
Set in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain, a new video game follows the struggles of a bouncer of foreign ancestry in a world of xenophobia and immigrant camps,...
Tesla Inc's board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday which will evaluate Elon Musk's proposals to take the company private, although it...
NASA counted down Friday to the launch of a $1.5 billion spacecraft that aims to plunge into the Sun's sizzling atmosphere and become humanity's first mission...
South Korean electronics giant Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy Note 9 smartphone Thursday, its latest effort to address flagging sales of the high-functioning...
Britain's information watchdog has fined a firm that offers advice on pregnancy and child care 140,000 pounds ($180,000) for illegally collecting and selling...
Samsung is expected to unveil its next major smartphone at a New York event on Thursday.
SpaceX used its newest style booster for a second time to put a communications satellite into orbit for Indonesia.
Women suffering heart attacks in hospital emergency rooms in the United States are more likely to die if their doctor is a man than a woman, warned a study...
The next version of Google's Android system will be called Pie.
Four Palestinian high-school friends are heading to California this week to pitch their mobile app about fire prevention to Silicon Valley’s tech leaders,...
Fueled by caffeine, pizza and adrenaline, sleep-deprived programmers in a marathon Saudi contest this week explored high-tech solutions to prevent a repeat of...
The little robotic waiter wheels up to the table, raises its glass lid to reveal a steaming plate of local Shanghai-style crayfish and announces in low,...
Steve Jobs may have been a tech genius, but he clearly didn’t care much for fashion.
The longest "blood moon" eclipse this century dazzled skygazers across the globe Friday, coinciding with Mars' closest approach in 15 years in a thrilling...
Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a long journey that would take Americans to the moon...
A blood moon will dominate the sky across much of the world Friday night when the earth's natural satellite moves into the shadow of our planet for the...
A consortium of astronomers said Thursday they had for the first time confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing...
The longest “blood moon” eclipse this century will coincide with Mars’ closest approach in 15 years to offer skygazers a thrilling astronomical double bill...
A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising the possibility that more water – and maybe even life – exists there,...
A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, marking the largest body of liquid water ever found on the Red Planet, scientists...