The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is usually fixated on the future. Most years, the attendees are dazzled by some country, company or technology promising to burst forward, force change and dominate the next decade. This year, Ukraine dominated the event and it plays into a growing sense of...
Joby Receives FAA Nod to Start Air Taxi Services Commercially
Joby Aviation said on Thursday it had received a certification from the Federal Aviation Administration that would allow it to begin its air-taxi operations commercially with a conventional airplane. It is among the three regulatory approvals critical for Joby's planned launch of all-electric aerial ridesharing service in 2024. Joby...
Fresno State President Honored by Cal State Student Association
Fresno State News Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval received a vote of confidence from the student organization that represents the nearly half a million students in the California State University system, the nation’s largest public higher education system. The Cal State Student Association selected Jiménez-Sandoval as the 2021-22 recipient...
Russia Prepares to Seize Western Firms Looking to Leave
Russia is advancing a new law allowing it to take control of the local businesses of western companies that decide to leave in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit. The law, which could be in place within weeks, will give...
Pfizer to Sell Vaccines, Drugs at Low Prices to Poorer Countries
Pfizer Inc. will sell nearly two dozen of its patent-protected drugs and vaccines at not-for-profit prices to some of the world’s poorest countries. Under the program, Pfizer will begin shipping the medicines first to Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda before the end of this year, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in...
New Home Sales Plunge in April
New home sales dropped for the fourth straight month in April, offering up another sign that the housing market is starting to slow. The drop adds to a host of other recent metrics showing the once-blistering hot housing market is starting to cool as many homebuyers are priced out by...
Taliban Ordered Female Newscasters to Cover Up. Men Joined in Protest.
The Taliban has ordered all female newscasters to cover their faces while on air, as part of broader rules requiring all women in Afghanistan to cover head to toe. It’s dangerous for women to refuse to comply. So some male colleagues have donned face coverings in protest. It’s a simple...
Electric Car Revolution Needs Honest Data To Avoid Consumer Backlash
The electric car revolution needs to woo buyers on average incomes to win sales, but it will crash and burn if manufacturers persist in providing unaffordable vehicles with fanciful range claims, says Forbes contributor Neil Winton. After road testing electric cars regularly for more than two years, Winton said...
BBC Reveals the Faces of China’s Uyghur Detention Camps
Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re...
Ian Bremmer: Hope as Major Crises Intersect
To fix our broken international political system, we need a crisis. For instance, a pandemic, climate change, or Big Tech having too much power. But it must be a crisis that's so destructive it forces us to respond fast, and together — like World War II. On GZERO World,...