In a blog post Monday, the Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -3.39% co-founder wrote that the Emmy-winning comedy is one of the few pop-culture offerings to really get the tech world right. “If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series ‘Silicon Valley,’” he wrote.

Elon Musk has shot out some crazy, unbelievable tweets over the last year, but he wasn’t joking about the bricks. Musk has started a company called The Brick Store LLC to produce and sell bricks, according to public documents obtained by TechCrunch. The new company, which was founded in July, will be managed by Steve Davis, the ex-SpaceX engineer who is also running The Boring Company (TBC).

The Justice Department inadvertently named Julian Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case, suggesting prosecutors have prepared charges against the WikiLeaks founder under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in an August court filing from a federal prosecutor in Virginia, who was attempting to keep sealed a separate case involving a man accused of coercing a minor for sex.

We’ve been waiting a while to see what kind of announcement producer Adi Shankar had up his sleeve -- and in just a few more hours, he’ll have it for us. Shankar, who previously worked on the animated Castlevania series for Netflix, teased on Twitter that he will be making an announcement at 1 PM PDT -- and fans of The Legend of Zelda will want to pay close attention.

Dyson has a lengthy list of air purifiers, but it's reportedly considering developing a model that's not quite anything it's ever created before. According to Bloomberg, the company has lodged patents for a wearable air purifier that will double as a pair of headphones. Wearable purifiers are already a thing, especially for countries like China where air pollution gets so bad it can increase the chances of getting stroke or cancer. However, they mostly come in the form of necklace...

After a week of mixed and choppy trading action, the cryptocurrency markets are now seeing a widespread, albeit relatively minor, drop, stemming from Bitcoin’s decline into the $6,300 region after it failed to stabilize above $6,500 a couple of days ago. At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at just under $6,400 and isn’t showing any signs of wanting to drop to the bottom of its long-established trading range between $6,200 and $6,700.

"After being defrosted, the nematodes showed signs of life. They started moving and eating."

A chemical that makes brain tumours glow could help surgeons safely remove brain cancer, a study suggests.

How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.

Mario Segale, the namesake for Nintendo’s Mario character and a successful American real estate developer, passed away on October 27, Kotaku has learned. Segale was surrounded by his family in Tukwila, Washington. He was 84.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are true Red Sox fans! The pair, who finalized their divorce earlier this month, both attended Game 4 of the World Series at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Saturday. Garner and Affleck, who were photographed near each other in a suite, both dressed casually for the nail-biting game.

I was 11 when my father destroyed the condominium where he was living. Searching for hidden transistors or other devices that might be beaming voices into his skull, he took a hammer to the walls, shoved his fists into the holes, and pulled off chunks of plaster. He shut off the power generator and cut the electrical wires in the walls. He put his ear to the floor. He ripped up the carpet. He called 9-1-1.

For the first time, researchers have taken photographs which create a complete thermal map of the surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at the California Institute of Technology in the US, led by Samantha Trumbo and Bryan Butler, have compiled four photographs showing temperature gradients across the moon’s icy surface.

Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to the Arabic word for “martyr.” The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, 51, tweeted a picture of herself wearing a hijab. Mom-of-four O’Connor was ordained a priest by a Catholic sect during the 1990s. But the Irish singer has changed faiths and her name to Shuhada Davitt.

Staying hydrated is a keystone of proper health, but with the current apocalyptic levels of plastic floating around in our oceans, drinking bottled water isn’t exactly an ethical option. It’s not just the environmental consequences that make bottled water a bad choice, though. The price of bottled water is marked up at exponential levels, and the companies that bottle that water often buy up local water rights only to sell that municipal water right back to consumers at these inflated prices.

Universe and Blumhouse’s Halloween may be a sequel to the 1978 original but time hasn’t tempered the film’s zealous following; with an impressive $77.5 million dollar opening, the film sliced its way to the franchise’s best debut weekend of all time, the second highest October opening weekend of all time (second only to Sony’s Venom), and the highest ever for a horror movie with a female lead.

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You'll be spending a long time with Arthur Morgan it seems, as a new report says the game's story will be roughly 60 hours long. Vulture, following an interview with Rockstar's Dan Houser, reports that 5 hours of content were recently cut from Red Dead Redemption 2, which stood at 65 hours long. The report also includes the detail that protagonist Arthur will have a love interest in the course of the game. The dropped content included a second romantic plot, but Houser explains th...