Steam is dropping official support for Ubuntu, which is currently the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution. The bombshell news was delivered by

Taco Bell has long had a reputation as vegetarian friendly, but the Mexican food-fast chain is not planning on adding any plant-based meat substitutes from Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods to its menu.

When InSight landed on Mars on Nov. 26th, 2018, it deployed a parachute to slow its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. As it approached the surface, it fired its retro rocket to slow it even more, and then gently touched down on the surface. As it did so, its retro rockets excavated two small pits in the Martian soil.

The man who was for seven years head of Apple’s Siri efforts has said that virtual assistants don’t deliver on their promise. Bill Stasior left Apple earlier this year, leaving the Siri team without a VP at the helm… He told Business Insider that no virtual assistant currently does what we really want them to.

Petrox is now level 27 with 1,435,135 XP.

Despite the name possibly implying that there'd be thousands of them, there are no dogs in Watch Dogs Legion. That's because, according to creative director Clint Hocking, Ubisoft's programmers would then have to deal with what happens to the poor animals after you inevitably murder their owners.

WhatsApp says it is deleting 2m accounts per month as part of an effort to blunt the use of the world’s most popular messaging app to spread fake news and misinformation. The Facebook-owned service published the data as part of a white paper on “stopping abuse” that was launched on Wednesday in India, the biggest market for the company with more than 200m users.

Iranian police close venues for crimes ranging from ‘playing illegal music’ to ‘debauchery’

Amazon has developed two new robots that move products around its warehouses.Worker bots: Amazon unveiled the robots—Pegasus and Xanthus—at its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, where it also showcased a fancy new drone and a sidewalk delivery bot.

"I know it's bad to say but with out [sic] killing them out there's no way to fix it," the mayor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post

Apple announced a mountain of new software updates during its two-hour WWDC keynote on Monday. Highlights included dark mode for iOS 13, a "Sign in with Apple" feature that's clearly shade at Facebook and Google, an App Store and menstrual cycle tracking for Apple Watches, and the death of iTunes. Oh, and of course, the ridiculously powerful and pricey new "cheese grater" Mac Pro.

It’s a stinky job but somebody’s got to do it – enter the rat detectives.

“People start pollution. People can stop it.” That was the tag line of the famous “Crying Indian” ad campaign that first aired on Earth Day in 1971. It was, as it turns out, a charade. Not only was “Iron Eyes Cody” actually an Italian-American actor, the campaign itself successfully shifted the burden of litter from corporations that produced packaging to consumers.

Illinois is poised to legalize marijuana sales with sweeping legislation that would also automatically expunge the criminal records of people convicted of minor pot possession. State lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Friday and Gov. JB Pritzker said he will sign the measure, which make Illinois the first state to legalize marijuana sales via its legislature. Most other states that have legalized cannabis did so via a ballot initiative process.

Chang'e-4's rover, Yutu2, may have found the first samples of the moon's mantle.