Easter Island Rapa Nui culture decline started before Europeans arrived
Did the native Polynesian culture of Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui, start declining before the Europeans arrived in 1722, or had their demise started...
Fossil of robust ancient human jawbone found off coast of Taiwan
A four-inch long fossilized jawbone of an ancient human with particularly large teeth from between 130,000 and 190,000 years ago was dredged up by fishermen...
Twitter rolls out video and group messaging features
Twitter has added some new features to its mobile app, including a video feature that allows its users to film, edit, and share videos...
AT&T will be a “very different company” by end of 2015
AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson said that this year is going to be a big transition for the American telecom giant.
The company has a...
AT&T wireless sales increased by 8 percent in Q4 2014
The US telecom giant AT&T announced on Tuesday that wireless sales increased by almost 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014. However, it...
Yahoo plans to spin off its $40 billion stake in Alibaba
Yahoo Inc is spinning off its 15 percent stake in the Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Yahoo has been pressured by its...
Five Earth-size planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year-old star
Scientists who were sifting through four years’ worth of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered an 11.2-billion-year-old star with at least five Earth-size planets...
Auschwitz Nazi death camp liberated 70 years ago today
On January 27th, 1945, the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, was liberated by the Soviet army. Approximately 1.1 million people...
UK economy grew by 2.6% in 2014, greatest expansion since 2007
UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.6% in 2014, the greatest rate of expansion since 2007, and considerably higher than the 1.7% posted...
US blizzard storm development witnessed by satellite
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have been monitoring a low pressure area that moved from the USA’s Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean and...