Why North Korea’s missile debris isn’t just junk to the West

It’s possible North Korea’s missile development might be even further along had the secretive state retrieved more of the missiles it tested to glean information from their physical remains. Over the years, debris recovered at sea has revealed secrets of...

Mark Zuckerberg’s next big bet: Making the real world an extension of Facebook

At F8 today, Facebook is announcing a bunch of utterly crazy s— that we’ll soon be able to do to the pictures we take. That includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram and affects, oh, somewhere approaching 2 billion people. But while...

Airbnb doubles down on its efforts to fight hotel ‘price-gouging’

Price-gouging is “rampant” in the hotel industry, and Airbnb has saved consumers more than $16 million over several events in major cities of late, the company said. In a report issued Tuesday, the home-sharing service detailed why it believes hotel prices...

BlackRock’s Larry Fink helped create the world’s largest asset manager … and Maroon 5

Larry Fink turned BlackRock into the world’s largest money manager, and he apparently also helped American pop rock band Maroon 5 get its start. “Around 2000 I met a young man, James Diener, who was working at Columbia Records,” Fink told Bloomberg...

Lawsuit accusing Trump of violating the Constitution just expanded

A nonprofit watchdog expanded a lawsuit accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by letting his hotels and restaurants accept payments from foreign governments. The amended complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan...