New York / AFP The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft passed the halfway mark of its marathon flight across the Atlantic late on Tuesday, one of the most challenging legs of its historic sun-powered journey around the world. The experimental plane, which took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport on Monday, is being piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand …

  CAIRO / Reuters Egypt’s efforts to relieve a crippling dollar shortage are pushing it towards a sickly combination of rising prices and lower growth, undermining hopes for economic revival after years of political upheaval. Prices have soared since Egypt devalued its currency by 13 percent in mid-March to end speculation against the pound and ease a dollar shortage that …

  Bloomberg Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase — or worse — while doing so. Researchers at Alphabet Inc. unit Google, along with collaborators at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and OpenAI — an artificial …