This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Helium has emerged as a key focus for the tech sector as industry watchers cast their minds to the implications of a prolonged Iran war. A byproduct of natural gas production, helium is crucial to semiconductor manufacturing and...

Growing up, Kate Hoos was told girls don’t play hockey. “If you can find a girls team, we’ll let you play,” she recalled being told. But there was no girls team at the time — and it wouldn’t be until a decade later, at age 20, that she learned to skate. Now 44 and fresh...

Rescue teams now believe the whale has reached deeper water in Lübeck Bay and hope it will head for the wider sea. Source link

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Slovenia’s intelligence agency has “unequivocally confirmed foreign influences” on last weekend’s parliamentary election, the country’s government said Thursday. The government said in a statement issued after a meeting of the National Security Council that the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency, or SOVA, “presented concrete activities of a foreign para-intelligence agency as well...

Dwayne Schnell | 500px Plus | Getty Images Oil prices fell on Friday after President Donald Trump said Iran had allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this week as a “present” to the United States, signaling a tentative easing of tensions in the critical shipping chokepoint. International benchmark Brent crude...

Rex Heuermann, the man charged with seven of the Gilgo Beach murders that gripped Long Island, New York, is expected to plead guilty next month, according to a source. He’s expected to enter the guilty plea in the serial killings April 8, according to a source familiar with the matter. Court records show an appearance...

Regarding Maduro’s fate, she said she felt a degree of sympathy: “He is a man who had everything but lost it through greed and an inflated ego. I feel sorry for him, because in the end, he is a human being, but I hope he receives a life sentence. He has to pay for his...