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Among other lessons, the past year has shown the serious consequences of the decades-long inability to get modern broadband communications to rural or remote communities.
Too many parts of the country…
Huawei is one of the world’s most prominent consumer electronics and telecommunications companies.
It’s also the first global tech giant to emerge from China — a fact that put a target on its back fro…
One of the smaller pieces of news coming out of the Shanghai Auto Show last week was the unveiling of new, and more colorful versions of China’s most popular electric car.
Standing out more than the n…
An Oklahoma manufacturer of prefabricated steel structures will pay more than $430,000 to settle dozens of apparent violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, federal officials announced this week.
Accordi…
Based in Paris, Illinois, North American Lighting manufactures automotive lighting systems.
On Nov. 14, 2020, an accident at the company's Advanced Forward Lighting Plant left an employee severely inj…
Ford is making its first foray into long-range, fully electric vehicles with the Mustang Mach-E, an SUV based on its iconic sports car that drew rave reviews as thousands of deliveries began in recen…
Typically, a story involving smugglers and a high-speed boat chase through the harbors of Hong Kong would be fuel for a Jason Statham movie surrounding organized crime, guns and/or drugs.
Post-pandemi…
If you order fries from a fast-food establishment during April, don’t be shocked if they tell you they’re out of ketchup.
Yes, as just the latest food commodity facing major disruption due to impacts …
On Wednesday, March 31st, 49-year-old Cody Easterday pleaded guilty to a $244 million scam to defraud Tyson Foods and another unnamed company.
According to the Department of Justice, the Washington m…
The gearheads over at Jalopnik usually take to new auto development with a critical eye, so when their observations reach the level of aggrandized headlines, well… it’s worth taking a look.
In this ca…
After more than a half-century of making cars for General Motors, the automaker closed down the local assembly plant in 2019 — then announced it would sell the factory to a newly formed electric vehi…
Whenever the conversation between my follow comic book nerds turns to the topic of super powers, my first choice is always the ability to fly. Maybe that’s why the concept of an individual jetpack ha…
For years, automakers have increased their focus on trucks and SUVs as much for their higher profit margins as the heavy demand from car buyers.
Even the cheapest trucks in the North American market w…
Back in 2018, a sanitation worker lost one finger and fractured another when his hand got caught in the crimping bar of a jammed ice cream wrapping machine at New Jersey-based Fieldbrook Foods Corpor…
Harley-Davidson has a problem, and it’s one many of us have: there’s something about Gen Z it just doesn't get.
But for Harley, it’s more than just a disconnect with the TikTok generation: The last t…
From July 2016 to May 2019 Izaak Kemp worked as a contractor at the Air Force Research Laboratory and National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
During his …
Fisker Inc., a company that describes itself as a designer and manufacturer of the "world’s most emotion-stirring, eco-friendly electric vehicles," has announced a memorandum of understanding with Fo…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency consistently offers leading-edge product developments that often begin with military applications before transferring the technology to the mainstream.
W…
I don’t think it would be biased in any way to say that Ford knows how to make a good pickup truck.
Their F-150 has been the best-selling truck in the U.S. since 1976 and the best-selling overall veh…
Americans love a good mystery, especially one that involves an unidentified flying object. Just a guess, but the pandemic may have facilitated more than your average usage of the FBI’s online data va…