Director Justin Lin confirmed on Twitter last night that the third installment of the Star Trek series will be called Star Trek Beyond. The film, now in production in Vancouver, will feature the return of Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Idris Elba. The title echoes Lin’s earlier statement that the new film won’t borrow much from the original television show.
By Foo Yun Chee and Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union reached a preliminary deal on Tuesday to abolish mobile roaming charges across the 28-country bloc by June 2017 and to require telecom operators to treat all Internet traffic equally. The deal, struck between EU lawmakers and Latvia, which holds the rotating EU presidency, will require approval from the European Parliament and EU member states, some of whom
With its various rover missions, NASA has been actively exploring the red surface of Mars since the ’90s — but now the space agency wants to investigate the Martian skies. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is testing out a prototype of a flying wing aircraft called Prandtl-m, which could be the first man-made vehicle to fly on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is also much thinner than here on Earth, so NASA
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A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said Apple Inc orchestrated a conspiracy with five publishers to increase e-book prices, in a victory for the U.S. Justice Department. By a 2-1 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court judge that the conspiracy violated federal antitrust law, and that the judge acted properly in imposing an injunction to prevent a recurrence. Writing for the majority,
Greece looks set to default on a 1.6-billion-euro ($1.7 billion) debt payment due to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) later in the day.
Online retail giant Amazon has opened its Mexico site for business, offering free delivery on orders of over 599 pesos ($38.25). A statement posted on the Amazon.com.mx site Tuesday said “we are launching …
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person and the world’s 59th-richest, was one of only 12 billionaires among the 400 to increase their fortunes on the day, rising $180 million to $15.3 billion. The collective decline for the billionaires amounted to a fall of more than 1.5 percent. The combined loss is more than the market capitalization of Ford Motor Co. or Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. The S&P fell 2.1 percent
U.S. home prices increased at a solid clip in April, led by double-digit jumps in Denver and San Francisco. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 4.9 percent in April from 12 …
Monday’s market action did not qualify as a chaotic, indiscriminate selling purge – for better or worse.
