August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air conditioning broke the state's electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by the dim light of their cellphones. By mid-month, the state had recorded possibly the hottest temperature ever measured on earth — 130 degrees in Death Valley — and an otherworldly storm of lightning had cracked open the sky. From Santa Cruz to Lake Tahoe, thousands of bolts of electricity ...

Ring, the Amazon-owned home security business, introduced a flying camera on Thursday that may excite home-surveillance fans but is almost certain to rankle privacy advocates. The $250 drone, called Ring Always Home Cam, is among a slew of products unveiled during Amazon's invitation-only online hardware event.

The bizarre, pro-Trump cult known as QAnon has been gaining followers in the United States for months. Now, the conspiracy theory has begun spreading to Germany. It's followers believe that the coronavirus is a weapon of the elite in their quest to enslave the world.

D3 Publisher has announced that the Japanese trap adventure game Misshitsu no Sacrifice which originally released exclusively for the PSP in Japan in February 2010 is getting a remake for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam. The remake is called Abyss of the Sacrifice and will release worldwide on December 17, 2020. The game will support English, Japanese, Traditional, and Simplified Chinese languages.

A family of five in Florida has revealed that their children’s lemonade stand has become their only source of income as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Erin Bailey, a single mother to four children between the ages of six and 10 in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, was put out of her lawn care business when the pandemic swept the country in March, WPBF reported.

An American atheist watchdog organizations believes Christianity embedded in online student courses is being sneakily taught during pandemic.

With the presidential election fast approaching, recent moves by the Trump administration appear designed to undermine the security and integrity of the vote. And that's not even counting the long-standing Postal Service shenanigans. Facebook rolled out a series of measures this week designed to minimize how much it contributes to the problem, including message-forwarding limits that have already helped WhatsApp fight misinformation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, but it’s not nearly as new as you might think. In fact, it’s undergone several evolutions since its inception in the 1950s. The first generation of AI was ‘descriptive analytics,’ which answers the question, “What happened?” The second, ‘diagnostic analytics,’ addresses, “Why did it happen?” The third and current generation is ‘predictive analytics,’ which answers the question, “Based ...

Ridley Scott, director of the original "1984" Apple Macintosh advertisement, has commented on Epic Games' recent parody of his ad, in an interview to IGN. When Epic Games launched its campaign against Apple over alleged anticompetitive App Store policies, it premiered a shot-for-shot remake of Apple's famous "1984" Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott, titled "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite."

The Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G got their iFixit teardown treatment not long ago and if ...

The region has been spared the worst ravages of covid-19. That has not protected its economies

Scientists are using Saturday's three concerts to explore ways of holding mass indoor events safely.

Just two years ago, Wall Street investors pushed Apple to a trillion-dollar market capitalization, making it the most valuable tech company in the world. Now, even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the market says Apple is worth twice as much.

The site of a Scottish nuclear power facility should be available for other uses in 313 years' time, according to a new report. Dounreay, near Thurso, was the UK site for the development of fast reactor research from 1955 to 1994. The facility on the north Caithness coast is in the process of being closed down, demolished and cleaned up. However, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said it would be 2333 before the 148-acre site is safe for reuse.

Do you, too, have a docuseries about Joe Exotic? Well, Oklahoma's Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, Exotic's old zoo, will probably let you film there. Jeff Lowe, who took ownership of the park after Exotic, announced on Facebook that "the old zoo" will close "effective immediately." The "new park will, at least for the foreseeable future, be a private film set for Tiger King-related television content for cable and streaming services," he wrote.

There has long been conflict in the United States over who gets to vote and how. In the years since Barack Obama’s election as president, those voting debates have become increasingly partisan, with Republican elected officials often pushing measures like requiring photo IDs that make it harder for people to vote, and Democratic officials advancing provisions like same-day registration that make it easier to vote.

With so much information available about the severity of the coronavirus and the need to follow guidelines, some people still refuse to accept reality. The denial manifests itself in many ways, whether that be refusing to wear a mask or attending large gatherings.

Hot and dry conditions are hammering Colorado, intensifying a 20-year shift toward aridity. On Thursday, federal officials designated 100% of the state abnormally dry or in drought for the first time in eight years — “extreme” or “severe” in many areas — consistent with a broader transformation of the Southwest amid climate warming.

To curb the spread of COVID-19, much of the globe hunkered down. That inactivity helped slow the spread of the virus and, as a side effect, kept some climate-warming gases out of the air.

August 5, 2020, will forever remain engraved in the history of gold. Indeed, it is the day when an ounce of gold surpassed the $2,000 price for the first time in its history. Gold began the year 2020 at an already very high level of $1,520 an ounce. Aside from the significant drop it experienced a few days during the liquidity crisis that hit the world in March 2020, the gold price has never stopped to rise this year.