Hong Kong on Sunday mourned the passing of the city’s Nobel Prize winner in physics, Professor Charles Kao Kuen, whose seminal work on fibre optics laid the groundwork for the development of modern communications. He had battled Alzheimer’s for over a decade before death claimed him at 84. Tributes flowed with chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor among the first to offer her public condolences.

Sweden and Switzerland have expressed their willingness to, upon request, send a team to inspect North Korea's possible dismantlement of nuclear and missile programmes, a US broadcaster reported on Saturday (Sept 22), according to Yonhap news agency.

Police departments across Canada are in the process of adding cannabis to their official policies surrounding alcohol and drug use by off-duty officers. And while each police agency will have its own specific HR policy, Vancouver Police spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette told Daily Hive that VPD officers will receive online training through the Canadian Police Knowledge Network (CPKN). It’s much the same story for RCMP officers across the country as well.

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Talk to your grandparents about marijuana - before somebody else does. The latest release of a massive federal drug use survey shows monthly marijuana use has skyrocketed among older Americans. The past decade, in fact, has seen a sea change in the demographics of marijuana use: As recently as the early 2000s, teens were more than four times more likely to use marijuana than 50 and 60 somethings.

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.

Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. Finding exoplanets is always fun, and the fact that this one is in the star’s habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on its surface) is a bonus. But that’s not why people are particularly psyched about the announcement. See, HD 26965 also goes by 40 Eridani A—the star orbited by Spock's homeworld in Star Trek. That means they found Vulcan. Ok, fine, they found a real-world analog to...

Federal authorities in Maryland have charged three men with running a $364 million Ponzi scheme for more than five years. Kevin Merrill, Jay Ledford, and Cameron Jezierski were arrested Tuesday and charged with using 30 companies and more than 55 bank accounts to bilk hundreds of investors. "The defendants lured investors through an elaborate web of lies, duping them into paying millions of dollars into this Ponzi scheme," said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur of the District of Maryland in...

China said it will institute new tariffs on U.S. goods worth $60 billion on Sept. 24, according to a Reuters report. The media outlet said the Asian country's tariff rate on a list of 5,207 U.S. products will range between 5 percent and 10 percent. On Monday, President Donald Trump's administration announced it will impose 10 percent tariffs on about $200 billion of imports from China effective Sept. 24. Trump, in a statement, said that the tariffs would rise to 25 percent on Jan. 1, 2...

The rise of machines, robots and algorithms in the workplace stands to create almost double the number of jobs for the global economy by the middle of the next decade than it puts at risk of being replaced. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), about 133m jobs globally could be created with the help of rapid technological advances in the workplace over the next decade, compared with 75m that could be displaced.

Following Wednesday’s Media Create charts, today the firm released its weekly analysis, going more in-depth into the impressive local performance of Marvel’s Spider-Man. We learn that the game was almost sold out, selling 96.17% of the total initial shipment. Media Create estimates that a considerable number of purchasers resorted to buying the digital download version of the game on the PlayStation Store, because there were shortages at retailers.

The appellate court agreed with the lower court that there was enough evidence that an Argo Alabama officer used excessive force in repeatedly tasing a man who went into diabetic shock while driving.

Speaking on a panel titled “Future of Space” at a 2018 conference for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) 60th anniversary, SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell reportedly confirmed that SpaceX is still targeting integrated BFR tests in 2019, in the form of hops with the next-gen rocket’s upper stage (known as BFS).

A royal from Saudi Arabia has claimed she had €800,000 of jewellery stolen from her bedroom at a chic Paris hotel, it’s emerged. The woman, an unnamed princess, said the items were taken from the Ritz in Place Vendome, police said on Monday. The incident happened on Friday and the jewellery stolen was not in the bedroom’s safe at the time of the theft, she told police.

The people of Sweden are voting in a general election - where an anti-immigration party is vying to make large gains. The nationalist Sweden Democrats (SD), which polls suggest have 20% support, are tipped for second place. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called the SD a "racist" party as he cast his ballot in Stockholm.

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The founder of the notorious Taliban-linked Haqqani network, which for decades was responsible for kidnappings and suicide bombings against the United States and its allies, has died, the Taliban said. A statement distributed by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid to journalists said Jalaluddin Haqqani passed away "after a long battle with illness," adding he had been "ill and bed-ridden for the past several years."

Dethleffs came up with an innovative new camper concept built for electric cars. It has its own battery pack, electric motors, and solar panels to reduce the load on the vehicle towing it. The idea is pretty simple: towing a camper reduces the efficiency and the range of your vehicle, electric car or not, but by adding its own power to the trailer, it mitigates the impact that the trailer has on the overall range.

Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had a new life ahead of him. Last October, the homeless man used his last $20 to buy gas for a woman, Kate McClure, who was stranded on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. McClure, in return, created a GoFundMe campaign with her boyfriend Mark D'Amico to raise money for Bobbitt to thank him. McClure and Bobbitt's story quickly transformed into a viral "feel-good" story, and the campaign, as of Friday night, raised a total of $402,706 within nine months.

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Independent cybersleuthing is a realistic career path, if you can live cheaply.

What if you could see yourself fitter at fifty than all of your friends and family combined? Here’s a scary fact: The rate of obesity has multiplied around the world across species. That’s right. It’s affected more than just us humans. If obesity and stress are the new “normal” in our society today that it permeates even to animals in captivity, the question then becomes, what do we have to do to become as fit as living in the wild?

In the 2011 census of Scotland, the country got to know that more people were falling under the “No religion” category , a common change among a large number of Western countries. In that survey, 36.7% of the participants stated they didn’t have any affiliation with religious organizations. Going back to the 2001 census, it is observable that this figure hovered around 28%.