The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.

Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.

Twilight Princess HD and The Wind Waker HD may be coming to the Nintendo Switch after all. While some may be disappointed that only Skyward Sword HD is coming to the Switch, there is hope for the other two titles, perhaps with a few more thrown into the mix. The rumor comes courtesy of Andy Robinson from VGC and Tom Phillips from Eurogamer. Robinson was more blunt with his comments, with Phillips much more coy but still pointed to the release of the classic Zelda games as well.

Toyota will finally introduce its first mass-market all-electric vehicles in the United States later this year, the world’s leading automaker announced Wednesday, though it offered no further details about vehicle type or pricing.

The number of active hate groups in the United States has fallen by about 10 percent in the past year. This isn’t necessarily good news. There were 838 active hate groups this year, compared to 940 in 2019, according to an annual report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The organization attributes the drop to the fact that these groups have become more diffuse and difficult to track, largely because of changes in technology. The pandemic has also played a role in limiting in-person ac...

Google has deleted at least 100,000 negative reviews from Robinhood’s app on the Google Play app store after furious users flooded the app with bad reviews that caused it to drop to a one-star rating. Robinhood users became livid on Thursday morning when the stock-trading app prevented them from buying GameStop stock and other stocks promoted by WallStreetBetsReddit community.

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Former NASA astronaut William "Bill" Thornton, who used his own inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while on board two space shuttle missions, has died at the age of 91.

Logicians don't rule the world or get the most done. Could it be that a consistent world view is neither desirable nor achievable? If we abandon the straightjacket of rationality might this lead to a more powerful and exciting future, or is it a heresy that leads to madness? 

This liquid fuel engine is a beast.

A day before the Proud Boys are preparing to join thousands of pro-Trump supporters in Washington for “Stop the Steal” protests, the violent street-fighting group is raking in massive donations from right-wing crowdfunding campaigns designed to fund protective gear, communications equipment, and legal defenses.

This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a machine can exhibit conversational behavior indistinguishable from a human. Turing predicted that by the year 2000, an average human would have less than a 70% chance of distinguishing an AI from a human in an imitation game where who is responding—a human or an AI—is hidden from the evaluator.

Recently revealed US charges against a China-based Zoom employee for censoring virtual meetings commemorating Beijing’s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 show how the space for global technology firms to operate in both China and the US is narrowing amid an economic, technological and ideological rivalry between the two countries, according to analysts.

President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill Sunday as unemployment aid expired, the government barrels toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored him to break the impasse he created after Congress approved the deal.

Without federal intervention, as many as 40 million people could be displaced amid an ongoing and still worsening pandemic.