Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know…
Hostile Bid for Gannett Rattles Some in the…
The hostile takeover bid for USA Today parent Gannett Co. GCI 21.23% by MNG Enterprises Inc., a newspaper group backed by a hedge fund, stoked fears that an industry already reeling from years of cutbacks…
The Best Stuff We Saw at CES 2019
3:19 The Best Stuff We Saw at CES 2019 1/9/2019 CES is the world’s biggest show-and-tell. Companies bring their quirkiest and most ambitious projects—good, bad or insane. We may never buy any of it,…
Through Monsoons, Around Slums, Under Temples—Mumbai Builds Its…
MUMBAI—One of the most challenging projects in the world is being attempted beneath one of its most densely packed cities. If it works, Mumbai will become the planet’s most crowded metropolis to build an underground…
In Age of Mass Shootings, Boy Scout Projects…
Boy Scouts’ projects to earn the coveted Eagle Scout rank have long been wholesome efforts to clean up parks, build bike racks and give blankets to the needy. But in an age of fear of…
Car Sales Keep Pace in 2018, Defying Predictions…
U.S. auto sales held steady last year despite predictions the market would cool, capping the best four-year period ever for the industry. The industry sold about 17.3 million vehicles in 2018, up less than 1%…
China Makes Historic Moon Landing, Boosting Rivalry With…
9:56 Electric Scooters: Israel’s Two-Wheeled Solution to Traffic and Sabbath 12/20/2018 Electric-scooter rental companies are hitting speed bumps in the U.S. over safety and other concerns. But in Tel Aviv, one in 10 residents…
Drugmakers Raise Prices on Hundreds of Medicines
Pharmaceutical companies are ringing in the new year by raising the price of hundreds of drugs, with Allergan AGN 0.65% PLC setting the pace with increases of nearly 10% on more than two dozen products,…
Has the Economy Peaked?
9:59 Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That's a Problem 10/15/2018 Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect thanks to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As WSJ’s Jason Bellini finds…