ReutersGoogle self-driving car unit will open engineering center in MichiganReutersAlphabet Inc's Google self-driving car project said Wednesday it will launch this year a new technology development center in suburban Detroit. The Mountain View, Calif. …

ReutersIslamic State turns to selling fish, cars to offset oil losses: reportReuters"After the armed forces took control of several oil fields Daesh was using to finance its operations, the organization devised non-traditional ways of paying its fight …

ReutersSaudi to seek foreign non-oil investors as crude slumpsReutersThe plan outlined by Abdullatif al-Othman, governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), is part of a radical revamp of economic policy as the kingdom seeks to adapt …

Samsung Heavy, Samsung Engineering say no plans to mergeReutersSamsung Heavy and Samsung Engineering shares rose sharply on Wednesday after Samsung Heavy Chief Executive Park Dae-young said the two firms should eventually merge for long-term synergy. But t …

ReutersFord targets emerging markets with frugal India engineeringReutersThe car's powerful and fuel-efficient engine will also be fitted into other vehicles Ford plans to export to Africa and Southeast Asia, executives say. "We are being challeng …

Synthetic biology UBER — a portable system for cross-species genetic engineeringNature.comGenetic engineering approaches typically rely on the host's transcriptional machinery and, therefore, can only normally be used in the species for which they were …