Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro offers a range of great improvements headlined by a more reliable scissor switch Magic Keyboard. However, there are a couple of notable components that didn’t see an upgrade. The 16-inch MacBook Pro features a return to the scissor switch keyboard, can be configured with up to 64Gb of RAM, has a new six-speaker system, improvement thermal system, and much more.

“Please pardon the random intrusion,” Paul Giamatti wrote. “I hope this isn’t a breach of etiquette.” Breach of etiquette? No. But finding an email from an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor in one’s inbox is most definitely rare. It turns out Giamatti, executive producer of “Lodge 49” — a blissed-out, anti-corporate adventure set inside an Elks-like order known as the Lynx — cares enough about the series to risk ruffling feathers.

Plastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow, according to research.

When you buy a phone or book a vacation, you probably read several customer reviews to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. Because in most areas of life, we know it’s important to base our spending decisions on evidence, not guesswork.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went into a bit more detail about the timelines and vehicle requirements to not only reach Mars, but to set up a sustainable base on the Red Planet that can serve as an actual city, supporting a local population.

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The year I was born was the year that “fist bump” was first used in print. Other year highlights include “boom box,” “autocorrect,” “sleazebag,” and “buffalo wing.” Is this information I need to know? Probably not. Is it information that’s fun to know? Absolutely.

Apple's new AirPods Pro wireless earphones have begun launching around the world today. To celebrate, the company shared a few images of customers trying on the ‌AirPods Pro‌ for the first time at Apple retail stores in Shanghai and Tokyo.‌ AirPods Pro‌ feature active noise cancellation, IPX4 water and sweat resistance, H1 chip with "Hey Siri" support, and a new in-ear design that supports silicone tips in three different sizes. All of these upgrades have increased the pri...

Hundreds of the nearest, newfound exoplanets will soon be scanned for evidence of intelligent life, thanks to a collaboration between leading SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) scientists and NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite. The Breakthrough Listen SETI initiative, based out of the University of California, Berkeley, announced Wednesday that it'll be teaming up with scientists working on the Transiting Expolanet Survey Satellite, the successor to the Kepler Space Te...

Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending.

Students learn best when they aren’t challenged too much or too little.

A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Friday that Facebook Inc’s proposal to encrypt its popular messaging programme would turn the platform into a “dream come true for predators and child pornographers.”

My wanting to share every waking thought became eclipsed by a desire for an increasingly rare commodity — a private life.

An Australian state is attempting to persuade people to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said Monday that Australia’s most populous state is the first jurisdiction in the world to use such technology to punish drivers distracted by social media, text messages or phone calls.

It looks like just a barren moonscape of craters, but somewhere in this image is a hunk of metal and electronics that carried a country's hopes of lunar science.

Electrical engineers at Duke University have harnessed the power of machine learning to design dielectric (non-metal) metamaterials that absorb and emit specific frequencies of terahertz radiation. The design technique changed what could have been more than 2000 years of calculation into 23 hours, clearing the way for the design of new, sustainable types of thermal energy harvesters and lighting.

Coral reefs are the foundation of ocean life, and yet 50% of them have been lost. Here’s why coral reefs are dying and what one group is doing to stop it.