Facebook's latest pledge to curb climate change disinformation on its platform is getting a skeptical reception from activists and industry watchdogs.

Depression is a painful experience. While we frequently associate depression with emotional pain such as sadness, sobbing, and hopelessness, research suggests that it can also appear as physical discomfort. While we don't generally associate dep ...

Elon Musk said that Tesla will use its telemetry data to make sure customers are “good” drivers before allowing them to access its Full Self-Driving Beta software. This is a tricky situation since those customers already paid for the software. Last w ...

China-based makers produced 309,000 new energy vehicles and sold 321,000 units in August 2021, both soaring 180% on year, according to China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). The output consisted of 252,000 electric vehicles (EVs) and 5 ...

Facebook provided misinformation researchers with flawed and incomplete data about how users interacted with posts and links. The research group Social Science One had used the data for the past two years without knowledge of a serious flaw: accordin ...

Scientists at Oxford have demonstrated a powerful pairing – a cancer vaccine and immunotherapy. In tests in mice, the vaccine boosted levels of tumor-hunting immune cells, while the immunotherapy made them more effective killers. Human trials are due ...

A cancer treatment that uses messenger RNA to launch an immune attack on cancer cells can completely shrink tumours in mice and is now being tested in people. Messenger RNAs – or mRNAs – are molecules that instruct cells to make proteins. They have r ...

The rising interest in remote work is largely an American phenomenon and an important trend to understand for its long-run impact on US productivity growth. The bottom line is that remote work is here to stay; workers hate commuting. The increasing p ...

Seven-time Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant on both sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and hourlong drama “Lou Grant” before a late-career rejuvenation through his poignant voicework in 2009 animated film “Up,” has died. He was 9 ...

Apple has announced the settlement of an anti-trust case brought by a group of developers, and while Cupertino has made concessions the result will not be huge changes in the way the App Store operates or the company's practices. The case that A ...

A leaker with a good track record says that the upcoming Apple Silicon 14-inch MacBook Pro CPU will be identical to that of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. This would represent a significant shift from Intel Macs, where Apple had reserved the fastest proces ...

Google Pay makes mobile payments easier than ever, but it isn't very helpful if your banking institution doesn't support the app.

Apple has provided further details concerning its child sexual abuse material (CSAM) scanning technology in its fourth follow-up briefing since its initial announcement ten days ago. The tech giant will now only flag images that had been supplied by ...

We’ve grown used to oat milk and soya milk — now a food-tech startup is taking alternative milk to the next level. California-based Perfect Day uses fungi to make dairy protein that is “molecularly identical” to the protein in cow’s milk, says co-fou ...

The Nintendo Switch has become the first system in 33 years to completely take over the Japanese weekly games charts.

The "George of the Jungle" star tipped his hat and said "Shucks, ma'am" after growing visibly emotional during his interview with a TikToker.

Following a serious incident at the International Space Station last Thursday (July 29), Russia and the U.S. have reaffirmed their partnership and shared next steps to move forward.

Failure to act now on climate change will result in “catastrophic” consequences for the world, the leader of the United Nation’s next climate talks has warned. “I don’t think there’s any other word for it,” Alok Sharma, the British minister in charge ...

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Nearly a decade since everyone’s favorite serial killer moved away and became a logger in 2013, Showtime’s Dexter is back—at Comic-Con@Home, at least.