The livelihoods of millions of workers in the tea estates – who are mostly low paid ones, is likely to be hit in the tea industry globally by a major robotic disruption, believes the CEO of a global beverage business.   Dilhan Fernando, chief executive of Sri Lankan tea company Dilmah said...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Juluca, the HIV treatment that is produced by ViiV Healthcare, the company that is co-owned by GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Shionogi.   This was announced by GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday. GlaxoSmithKline is the majority stakeholder in...

There could be good news coming for those people who hate to do shopping and then standing in long queues to pay the shopping bills. According to the claims by one company, it would be possible for everyday devices will be making automatic "invisible" payments pretty soon.   The idea for...

To help keep the lights on in Australia’s most wind-dependent state, construction has started on building the world’s biggest battery one year after the state of South Australia suffered a major blackout   As electricity demands begins to peak in December, the state is counting on it to be...

For handling autonomous driving tasks in its cars, Tesla is getting closer to having its own chip.   Sources said that the carmaker is now running tests on the samples of the first implementation of its processor which it has received back.   Tesla's has been pushing to be...

The world is about to see why Apple CEO Tim Cook is downright giddy about augmented reality.   An iOS update away from morphing into consoles that bridge the real world and the imaginary one are hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads in circulation even while virtual reality...

As part of an effort to better understand how customers respond to and interact with autonomous vehicles Ford and Domino's Pizza are teaming up to test self-driving pizza delivery cars in Michigan.   The option to accept pizza deliveries from a Ford Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicle...

A project that could transform the way we think about energy is being worked upon together by 35 countries, including the U.S., China and Russia, at a research facility in the south of France.   The collaboration is constructing a magnetic fusion device known as a tokamak which is commonly...

In a step that could become a template for other countries to follow, a site in Finland is being prepared and is set to be used as a labyrinth of underground tunnels for the storage of nuclear waste.   Finland is home to four nuclear reactors which provide almost 30 percent of its...

Doctors have raised hopes of saving the lives of more children with the most common type of childhood cancer after a novel cell treatment that saved the life of 9-year-old Austin Schuetz was given the green light by U.S. regulatory advisers.   Approval of Novartis AG's tisagenlecleucel for...

Tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries were infected, Britain's health system was disrupted and global shipper FedEx was impacted by a global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency.   Malicious malware...