People are realizing that the technology behind Bitcoin digital currency could have much wider uses.
Is blockchain off the chain?
FILE PHOTO: A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken in Paris, France May 27, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo - RTX36FUP
China is going soft
Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the The Confucius Institute which is housed at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. Chicago is Hu's only stop outside Washington during his trip to the United States. (AP Photo/Chris Walker, Pool)
Instead of exerting ‘hard power’ — military might — Beijing is using ‘soft’ power on Americans.
Could computers help end hunger in Africa?
An old woman and her husband wait for distribution of food from Oxfam in central Turkana district, Kenya.Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. The U.N. says tens of thousands of people already have died in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti due to famine and has warned that the famine hasn't peaked. More than 12 million people in the region need food aid, according to the U.N. (AP Photo/Tobin Jones)
A new early warning system relies on massive amounts of diverse ‘big data’ to identify hunger risks faster than traditional methods.
Border clashes leave rotting produce stranded at Afghanistan-Pakistan crossing
Transit trucks stranded due to the border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan are parked on the side of the road leading to the border in Torkham, Pakistan June 16, 2016. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz - RTX2GJZD
Afghanistan sells a significant portion of its grapes and pomegranates to its neighbor, while Pakistan sends mangoes and vegetables in the opposite direction.
Too hungry to learn
A severe drought has left 6 million Somalis in need of food, including students too malnourished to remember what’s taught in class.
Snatched off the street
A man attends a rally to support an Azerbaijani Journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was abducted in Tbilisi on May 29 and now is in detention in Baku, in Tbilisi, Georgia May 31, 2017. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili - RTX38C04
A dissident Azeri journalist who vanished in Georgia has turned up in custody in his native Azerbaijan.
Stanford students tackle real-world US national security challenges
Students look for solutions to problems provided by the Department of Defense and US military.
How this Yazidi woman outsmarted her Islamic State captors to avoid being raped
Shireen Jardo, 25, came to Washington to push for assistance for the traumatized Yazidi community.
Foreign companies want a piece of China’s modern ‘Silk Road’
Water is sprayed on the table prepared for heads of states before the welcoming banquet at the Great Hall of the People during the first day of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj - RTX35QZR
‘One Belt, One Road’ trade route plan seems to offer major opportunities for Chinese companies, but not so much for outside firms.
For Turkey’s medical tourists, a hair-raising experience
Affordable prices make hair transplants a booming industry in Istanbul.