The Australian government wants to increase the criminal penalty for refusing to decrypt data from 2 years to 10 years.

Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of content attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation to combat the vitriol has failed to stop it.

The rat was discovered in farmland in India, where experts say a soya bean seed had probably fallen into an open wound and germinated

Environmental data for 2017 are pouring in, and the results might not be what you’d expect. In the United States, where President Trump has promised to unshackle the coal industry and to abandon an international climate change treaty, greenhouse-gas ...

Tinder is one of Match Group’s biggest and most profitable brands

Buses emit a lot of carbon dioxide, but BYD is making our fleets cleaner.

As well as the expected PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, Doom Eternal is coming to Nintendo Switch. Bethesda casually let slip the news of the Nintendo version of next year's upcoming shooter in a tweet on the official Doom account. The ...

Vimeo has removed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platform.

The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers.

The fight against single-use plastic has been gathering steam over the past months, but the Caribbean nation of Dominica has taken the crusade to another level. The island nation has announced its aim to completely ban common plastics and single-use ...

Tesla fans can buy branded t-shirts, jackets, hats and hoodie sweatshirts. Soon, they will also be able to buy Tesla "short shorts," according to a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in his seemingly never-ending war of words against investors ...

All Saudi patients receiving medical care in Canada have been transferred to the United States to continue their treatment, the Kingdom’s ambassador the country said on Thursday. Naif bin Bandar Al-Sudairi said there were “not that many” Saudi citize ...

The robot told test subjects it was scared of the dark and pleaded ‘No! Please do not switch me off!’

The auction took place on a mild Wisconsin morning. Yet, standing in front of an expectant crowd, 15-year-old Waylon Klitzman was sweating. "I was nervous," he told CNN. "I'm not that guy that talks to a lot of people. I'm no ...

The food court at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto used to generate 120 bags of garbage a day. Now it produces just three — despite the fact that it serves noodles, fried chicken, burgers and other fast foods to 24,000 customers a day. "It ac ...

Intel now offers SSD performance by the inch.

Scientists have experimented with a new organic molecule that has an ability to ‘renew’ and this can be the basis of a new type of organic flow battery which has the potential to last for several decades.

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Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook’s People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate recommendations. By November, we had it mostly figured out: Facebook has nearly limitless access to all the phone numbers, email addresse ...

In its earnings call on Tuesday morning, Warner Music Group announced that it has now sold its entire stake in Spotify, realizing $504 million.