The award for “Best Small Talk on a Flight to Space” goes to Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old from the Netherlands who was part of Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight to space earlier this week. On the roughly 10-minute flight, Daemon told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos what probably sounded like blasphemy to his billionaire ears: He had never bought anything on Amazon.

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He was responding to a question from a reporter about the alleged role of platforms like Facebook in spreading falsehoods about vaccines and the pandemic. The White House has put increased pressure on social media companies to tackle disinformation.

Working with the United Nations, scientists hope to establish standards for satellite ‘megaconstellations’ and reduce disruption of astronomical observations.

US Senate candidate Roy Moore launched the case in 2018 over a joke that saw Baron Cohen demonstrate a so-called "paedophile detector" on him.

Want to make a splash on Twitter? You have a better chance of getting noticed by saying something angry or insulting. So concludes a recent study that looked at the impact of both positive and negative tweets from news organizations of various political leanings. They found that, for both right-leaning and left-leaning media, "Negative news spreads farther through the current Twitter network than positive news."

37 US state and district attorneys have sued Google over alleged efforts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly on Android devices. The filing -- led by Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee -- claims that the tech giant bought off competitors and utilised restrictive contracts to suppress competition across the Android ecosystem.

Apple has started pulling in shipments of passive components needed for the production of its next-generation iPhone devices slated for launch in the latter half of 2021, according to sources from Taiwan's handset supply chain.

Windows 11 is arriving later this year as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users, but many are discovering that their hardware isn’t compatible. Microsoft has altered its minimum hardware requirements, and it’s the CPU changes that are most surprising here. Windows 11 will only officially support 8th Gen and newer Intel Core processors, alongside Apollo Lake and newer Pentium and Celeron processors.

Today, we'll be doing something quite rare which is spotlighting a startup. It's rare that we do that, but this is a startup we think is very important to know about. The startup is Kernel, one working on a human brain-machine interface.

Apple will release the update this fall, but in the meantime, we have our eye on some features that are going to make a huge difference in how you use your iPhone and iPad.

NVIDIA is dropping support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 drivers starting in October. 2021, as they focus on supporting Windows 10 and later versions of Windows. In a new support bulletin published on Friday, NVIDIA says they will only provide new features, bug fixes, or performance enhancements to Game Ready Drivers for Windows 10.

Piers Morgan has once again hit out there at the behaviour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The former Good Morning Britain presenter came out on Fox News on Monday night to chat to broadcaster Sean Hannity. And also the 56-year-old did not hold back as he criticized Meghan and Harry once more for their “ridiculous behaviour“.

Petrox is now level 30 with 2,156,335 XP.

Paramount Plus is busting out the popcorn: The ViacomCBS streamer is stuffing more than 1,000 movie titles into the service this week as it fights for ground in the streaming wars. The new batch of flicks includes “Infinite,” Paramount’s sci-fi thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor and directed by Antoine Fuqua, which will exclusively debut on Paramount Plus this Thursday, June 10, alongside another 1,000-plus movies. All told, the company said, Paramount Plus will be stocke...

Researchers have successfully tested a "Trojan Horse" drug which can kill cancer and bacterial cells without damaging nearby healthy tissue. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh combined the tiny cancer-killing molecule SeNBD with a chemical food compound to trick malignant cells into ingesting it.

Anew study has revealed that air pollution coming from agriculture leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths every year. Of the 15,900 deaths related to food production, the vast majority—80 percent—were linked to animal-based foods, “both directly from animal production and indirectly from growing animal feed.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the shape of population in countries around the world, both in lives lost and in babies not born. We are becoming fewer even faster than before. More than a year after governments closed borders, shut down businesses and ordered people to stay home, the latest data show significant declines in fertility in some countries – declines that could become permanent. At the other end of life, so many people have died prematurely that life expectancy has gone down in ...

The Australian Federal Court rules that Environment Minister Sussan Ley has a legal duty not to cause harm to young people of Australia by exacerbating climate change when approving coal mining projects.

In an investigation that finishes up the world's greatest token is not, at this point a periphery resource class, DBS's Chief Economist Taimur Baig and Macro Strategist Chang Wei Liang composed that S&P 500 agreements will in general enroll greater swings after Bitcoin shot up or somewhere around 10% in the range of 60 minutes.