Bloomberg Snow, a Snapchat clone that’s conquering Asia, is now setting its sights beyond the region, betting that it can attract users with stickers that sometimes border on the bizarre. While Snow, based in Bundang, South Korea, mostly replicates Snapchat’s features, there’s something for everyone among its 400 live-motion filters, which include everything from a dancing octopus to Super ...

  CAPE CANAVERAL / AP The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. This new GOES-R spacecraft will track U.S. weather as never before: hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, volcanic ash clouds, wildfires, lightning storms, even solar flares. Indeed, about 50 TV meteorologists from around the ...

  Dakar / AFP Above the sacks of seeds and coal, three kerosene lamps gather dust in the tiny shed that Kenyan chicken farmer Bernard calls home. He prefers to use solar energy to light up his evenings, listen to the radio or watch television, after abandoning a diesel generator he said was expensive to maintain and burned fuel too ...