If you rise early on Wednesday, March 7 — around 5:00 a.m. — and look to the southern horizon, you will see a rare planetary alignment. Next to a bright quarter moon will be the planet Jupiter, and to its left, Mars, followed by Saturn. Left of Saturn is Pluto, the recently-demoted dwarf planet that will be far too […]

Walt Disney’s (DIS) box office juggernaut “Black Panther” isn’t on the road to just ticket-sale riches. The film could also generate nearly $250 million in licensed merchandise sales in 2018 as companies look to cash in on the cultural phenomenon, according to The Licensing Letter, a trade publication. Though “Black Panther” merchandise sales are dwarfed […]

Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are officially out in India at a starting price of Rs 57,900 and Rs 64,900 for the base 64GB storage variants. Here’s a comparison of Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Google Pixel 2 XL. Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are officially out in India at a […]

Assuming you’re not mentioned anywhere in the Voyager 1 probe’s records in interstellar space, you have an opportunity to send your name into space a different way: on a probe around the sun. This summer, NASA will be launching their Parker Solar Probe to explore the outer atmosphere of the sun in the hopes of gaining a better understanding of our local star. It’s […]

TAKEOVERS Treasury warns on Qualcomm sale Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm could pose a national security risk because of Qualcomm’s leadership in developing critical semiconductor technology, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Qualcomm’s sale to Singapore-based Broadcom could hurt the chipmaker’s competitiveness by reducing research and development, which would threaten U.S. security, the Treasury […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday killing all 39 people on board, Russian officials said, an incident that sharply raised the death toll from the Kremlin’s intervention in the Syrian war. President Vladimir Putin, who is running for re-election later this month, declared in December that the Russian […]

Asian stock markets are mixed on Wednesday amid cautious trades following news that White House chief     economic adviser Gary Cohn, an advocate for free trade, has resigned from the Trump administration. Cohn’s resignation stoked fears that Trump will go ahead with his plan to impose tariffs and risk a trade war. It also overshadowed easing […]

PUNE, India — East of Mumbai, on the banks of the Mula-Muttha River, sits Pune, a city known for its IT hubs, manufacturing, and culture. The city center is crowded at lunch, with diners who are mostly students and families looking for reasonably priced, high-quality, vegetarian food. They may end up at a “thali” restaurant […]

Tate Modern, London From his wife to his lover, from phallic-faced women to Christ in a nappy, this giddying exhibition captures the furious pace Picasso worked – and lived – at Picasso at 50: Savile Row suits, a chauffeur-driven Hispano-Suiza, and living in a swanky apartment near the Champs Élysées, with his wife, the Russian […]

There are a record 206 tech billionaires on Forbes’ 2018 list of The World’s Billionaires, 23 more than a year ago. Together they are worth an astounding $1.3 trillion, up 30% since last year. It’s been a banner year for most of these tech tycoons: 58% of them have bigger fortunes than a year ago, while […]