Before last month's Super Bowl, Foggy Pine Books was one of the thousands of small, locally owned businesses floundering amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nestled in the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, the bookstore had calculated that it needed to sell a minimum of 1,350 books per month to stay open. In January, it had sold 836.

A 6-year-old British girl born with one arm was thrilled to learn that her GoFundMe page had raised enough money for a new bionic arm. TODAY’s Hodo Kotb has your Morning Boost.

Having children will cause you to happier than staying childless, consistent with a replacement study, but not until later in life, once they have flown the nest. A team of researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany found that oldsters tend to be happier than non-parents in adulthood , but this only holds if their kids have removed.

Listen. I didn't think I'd be relating to a mythically powerful witch from a comic book superhero show who created her own alternate reality TV bubble to stave off the grief and isolation outside of it. But a year spent in quarantine surviving a pandemic does strange things to a person. In the latest episode of Marvel's WandaVision, we finally got answers to exactly how Wanda Maximoff birthed an entire universe of illusions that exist under her control.

Hit songs can be a better investment than gold – and by snapping up the rights, Merck Mercuriadis has become the most disruptive force in music...

Jonah Hill won’t be fat-shamed anymore. Responding to a recent tabloid photo taken of him drying off after surfing in Malibu, the “Get Him to the Greek” star is through feeling inferior due to his larger size.

WhatsApp has revealed how it will gradually cripple accounts held by users who do not accept the platform's impending privacy policy changes

App Store scams have recently resurfaced as a developer exposed several scam apps in the App Store making millions of dollars per year. Most of these apps exploit fake ratings and reviews to show up in search results and look legit, but trick users into getting subscriptions at irrationally high prices.

Bill Gates is out with a new book on how to solve the climate crisis. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: the Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need follows his general history of emphasizing technological innovation over policy changes. But, in an interview promoting the new book, he did propose one dramatic behavioral change: People living in wealthier countries should switch to plant-based meat alternatives.

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a planetoid four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, nicknamed 'Farfarout.'

A new study reveals crucial differences in the way Black and white officers in the Chicago Police Department respond to incidents on their beat.

All research in the world AF (After Facebook) tells us that social media negatively affects our mental health. It increases anxiety, depression, loneliness, and triggers FOMO (fear of missing out) in especially the young people who use it. Mindlessly switching timelines and profiles and doomscrolling scrolling is quite bad for us.

Even if Trump had said nothing on Jan. 6., his conduct after his election defeat to Joe Biden was outrageous and, yes, impeachable.

The automaker, which starts producing the electric F-150 in 2022, announced it will invest heavily in the future of powertrains and mobility through 2025.

Apple is ramping up the production of iPhones, iPads, Macs and other products outside of China, Nikkei Asia has learned, in a sign that the tech giant is continuing to accelerate its production diversification despite hopes that U.S.-China tensions will ease under President Joe Biden.

A rabbi from the Tampa Bay area became the latest person with ties to Florida to be arrested for their alleged role in the U.S. Capitol riot earlier in January. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV reports the United States Department of Justice has filed several charges against Michael Stepakoff, who was caught on camera among the group that stormed the building on January 6th following a rally for former President Donald Trump.

Facebook is preparing to launch a lawsuit against Apple for alleged anticompetitive behaviour, particularly regarding App Tracking Transparency and iMessage, according to The Information.

The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the utter uselessness of the stock market, an institution that serves no purpose besides making a small number of undeserving people rich.