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Republican congressman Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on Wednesday that Russians had hacked into Republican National Committee computers. "The Russians ... basically have hacked into both parties at the national level.
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, with a rout showing tentative signs of letting up after three days of renewed volatility left equities at a two-month low. S&P 500 Index contracts expiring in December added 0.2 percent to 2,126.5 at 8:56 a.m. in New York.
Top U.S. defense officials insist they are not turning a blind eye to fears that Russian hackers are trying to hijack upcoming U.S. presidential and local elections. "This continues to be an issue of great focus," said Adm.
Qualcomm, one of the leading mobile and device chipset designers, announced a pair of partnerships that will have implications for IoT development in the coming years. Verizon's low-powered modems into Qualcomm's chipsets.
A top pharmaceutical lobbying group is launching a television ad campaign to defend drugmakers that have been under fire for their pricing practices. "We're under pressure and scrutiny like never before," said Jim Greenwood, chief executive officer of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
Israel's Space Communication Ltd said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site. Officials of the Israeli company said in a conference call with reporters Sunday that Spacecom also could collect $205 million from Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the AMOS-6 satellite.
Theresa May won't be using her trip to the Group of 20 talks in China to announce her decision on the Hinkley Point nuclear-power project, a U.K. official said, in the latest sign that Britain's new prime minister is preparing to block the deal. May will arrive in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday for what is both her first international summit and Britain's first appearance on the world stage since the country voted in June to leave the European Union.
3, 2016. . Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie Gregoire wave as they and daughter Ella-Grace arrive in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, Sept.
Vladimir Putin said the hacking of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails and documents was a service to the public, but denied U.S. accusations that Russia's government had anything to do with it. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?'' Putin said in an interview at the Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Thursday.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her staffers used an informal and sometimes haphazard system for exchanging and storing sensitive information and were at times unaware of or were unconcerned with State Department policy, documents from an FBI investigation into her private e-mail server system show. The documents reveal myriad new details about the e-mail setup and show that investigators found multiple attempts by hackers to access Clinton's system - a series of personal devices and servers that the Democratic presidential candidate told investigators she used as a matter of convenience while she was secretary of state.
A SpaceX rocket blew up on a launchpad in Florida, marking the second loss of a spacecraft by Elon Musk's venture in a little more than a year and hobbling a Facebook Inc. initiative to spread internet access across Africa. The accident occurred Thursday at Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 40 as SpaceX held a dress rehearsal for Saturday's planned launch of an Israeli communications satellite.
Someone has been hacking into voter registration databases and the FBI is on it. After James Comey's blowing off the evidence collected by his agents of Hillary Clinton's email crimes, however, there's considerable cause to be afraid, very afraid, for the legitimacy of the November elections.
Werner Herzog's new documentary, Lo and Behold , Reveries of a Connected World , begins with religion and never really leaves it behind. As the film opens we are ushered down a hall at UCLA by Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist, on our way to seeing the first computer to communicate over the internet.
Voter registration databases and other election systems in two states have been hacked, according to the FBI and local officials, who launched an investigation this month following the discovery of malicious software on a state computer. In an Aug. 18 warning notice obtained by Yahoo News, the FBI said that hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks.
China and the U.S. recently announced plans to send rovers to Mars in 2020, signaling the start of a new space race. China's plans to land a solar-powered rover on Mars in July or August of 2020 while NASA intends to launch its own $2.1 billion dollar nuclear isotope powered Mars 2020 rover the same month.
The Democratic presidential nominee's influence was on display again Wednesday, when she sent Mylan NV's shares plummeting as much as much as 6.2 percent within minutes of calling for the company to drop prices of its EpiPen emergency allergy shot. It marked the third time over the past year that Clinton's comments roiled drug stocks.
Watch Interview With Kansas City Fed President Esther George on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business at 7:30 ET Just about a year after Democratic presidential nominee sent biotechnology stocks and exchange traded funds tumbling with rhetoric aimed at high drug prices, one would think that any healthcare company and its executives opting to raise prices on devices, pharmaceuticals and treatments by hundreds of a percent is just asking for trouble. Well, Mylan NV can now be a case study in bungling executive leadership after revealing steep price increases for its EpiPen used to treat patients with severe allergic reactions.
As the unmanned aircraft industry continues to evolve, the United States is depending on its space agency to help manage small drone traffic close to the Earth. NASA is currently entering the second phase of a four-step plan to draw up rules of the skies for drones that weigh 55 pounds or less and fly no higher than 500 feet.
China National Chemical Corp. received approval from U.S. national security officials for its takeover of Swiss agrochemical and seeds company Syngenta AG, seen as the biggest regulatory hurdle that the $43 billion acquisition faces. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has cleared the transaction, the companies said in a statement Monday.