If your data center's ransomware recovery plan is to pay off the hackers with cryptocurrency, it's time to rethink your strategy as regulators crack down. Today, every data center manager should be aware of the dangers of ransomware and have a disaster recovery plan that doesn't involve paying hackers’ ransomware demands.

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to enact new rules to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private messages, photos, search history and more.

At the time of last year’s Emmys ceremony, a seven-episode literary adaptation about the tumultuous life of a fictional chess prodigy might not have been an obvious awards mainstay. Yet, after a year when “The Queen’s Gambit” never really waned in its quest for TV’s highest prize, the Netflix show finished its calendar-spanning run by taking home the Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

The DNA of some viruses doesn’t use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this exception is possible and hints that it could be more common than we think.

Paleoanthropologists have sketched a rough timeline of how human evolution played out, centering the early action in Africa.

Space needs a burdensome and expensive deep clean, and Woz's Privateer apparently wants to take care of the mess.

Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment."

The 130-year-old statue is "Virginia's largest monument to the Confederate insurrection," Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said today.

A billion years have vanished from the geological record – and over 152 years after this was first discovered, scientists can't agree on why.

More than a third of jobless Americans in August were long-term unemployed as benefits for these workers are set to expire. About 3.2 million people — or 37.4% of the total unemployed — have been out of work for at least six months, the official barometer for long-term unemployment, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Peppa Pig took a break from bullying George Pig to turn her attention to someone who actually deserved it: Kanye West.

Samsung recently revealed that all its TVs have a security feature that lets the company stop people who steal a TV from actually using it.

A new study suggests that previous research may have overestimated the influence of self-esteem on changes in wellbeing following a breakup. The research found that most people felt less satisfied with life in the wake of their romantic relationship ending, but there was only a small difference between those with low and those with high self-esteem.

Wing is operating in the US, Finland, and Australia.

OnlyFans CEO Tim Stokely said wariness from investors did not influence his decision to ban porn, and insisted banks were to blame.