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  • FILE PHOTO -The rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors is seen during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

    Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live

    By Deborah Findling, CNBC

    Menlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...

  • Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week in this September 9, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Files

    Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All

    By Christina Farr, CNBC

    Google Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...

  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...

  • File photo of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk standing on the podium as he attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong

    Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future

    By Evelyn Cheng

    Elon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...

  • FILE PHOTO: A Tesla charging station is seen in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. on September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

    The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...

  • Colombia demands explanation on NSA spying allegations

    By Reuters

    BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia expressed concern early on Wednesday after revelations the United States had spied on the Andean nation, its closest military ally in Latin America, and called for an...

  • Tribune to separate broadcasting, publishing businesses

    Tribune to separate broadcasting, publishing businesses

    By Jennifer Saba, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Tribune Co will separate its publishing business from its more-profitable broadcast division, it said on Wednesday, following the path taken by Time Warner Inc and News Corp. Media...

  • Ethiopia expected to join WTO in 2015: ministry

    Ethiopia expected to join WTO in 2015: ministry

    By Aaron Maasho, Reuters

    ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia expects to join the World Trade Organization in 2015 without heeding to demands that it liberalizes its state-run banking and telecoms sectors, the Foreign Ministry...

  • China, U.S. talks on cyber security go well: Xinhua

    China, U.S. talks on cyber security go well: Xinhua

    By Reuters

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Talks between China and the United States on cyber security, overshadowed by revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, have gone...

  • Hospital Safety Alert: Interns As Shift Workers

    By Sandra G Boodman, Kaiser Health News

    Flavio Casoy vividly remembers one of his scariest moments as an intern: On duty at a San Francisco hospital for nearly 29 hours, he was at the bedside of a very sick patient when the man's oxygen...