SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Straddled across Ausberto Maldonado’s backyard in Bayamon, a suburb of San Juan, is a nagging reminder of Hurricane Maria’s destructive power. “See, that tree broke off that branch, which is as thick as a tree — and now it’s in my yard,” said Maldonado, a 65-year-old retiree. The downed tree […]

Is Tony Stark getting a Wakandan upgrade come Avengers: Infinity War? The armor-clad Avenger’s suit is a perennial work in progress, its genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist inventor doling out update after update to improve the design he originally conceived a decade ago (in a cave with a box of scraps). With Infinity War, Stark dons his most advanced and formidable suit yet: one […]

THE SAMSUNG Galaxy S9 is both beautiful to behold, and to hold. In the less than two weeks that we tested the phone, the most outstanding feature of the S9 has to be its design. Samsung has refined the design language that began in the S8, into an art form. In the hand, the Galaxy S9 […]

Eden Zang, managing director of Oceanwide Science Institute, will be at the Maui Nui Resource Council meeting Wednesday to explain how passive acoustic monitoring can be utilized to reveal clues about coral reef communities. The meeting, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Pacific Whale Foundation’s Discovery Center classrooms at the ocean level of the Maui Harbor […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar slid on Monday as China raised tariffs on U.S. goods in an escalating spat between the world’s two biggest economies, and stocks on Wall Street tumbled, led by a rout in technology shares, after U.S. President Donald Trump again attacked Amazon.com. China bumped up tariffs by as much as […]

PHOENIX – The technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrency could change lifestyles and livelihoods, leading to cheaper, more efficient ways to ship packages, buy homes, access medical records and even build a secure vault of personal information. The little-understood and often misunderstood system of virtual money, known as cryptocurrency, is based on something called blockchain, a vast […]

This week bitcoin prices bounced at the trendline forged approximately one half year ago at the same time as NVIDIA signaled support for crypto. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang spoke to Jim Cramer on Mad Money TV, suggesting that cryptocurrency was “here to stay” regardless of the fact that it’s not one of the company’s main drivers – […]

JERUSALEM — Days after the deadly flare-up along Israel’s border with Gaza, during which Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinians, a new war — of videos and strong statements — has erupted over what happened and why. The violence has waned in what was the bloodiest day in Gaza since the war of 2014, but both sides […]

Aries You have a stronger need for strategy in your life today, dear Aries, but there is a tendency to rush things anyhow. If rushing makes you skip steps, try to slow down. In the first half of the day, you might learn of something helpful that was previously hidden or private. As the day advances, […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, March 31, 2018: Believe it or not, with tourist revenues of over 11 billion dollars annually, Taipei, Taiwan ranks as the ninth largest economy in the world. That’s the most for any Chinese-speaking city. The city also welcomes more than 6 million overseas visitors each year, making it the 15th most visited city […]