The proposed legislation is Congress' latest attempt to weaken encryption from tech giants.

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered local police to stop using tear gas, pepper spray and other force against nonviolent protesters, finding that the Seattle Police Department used excessive force against demonstrators. The Seattle Times reports U ...

It was a cold and rainy morning when Anna Terry made a staggering find on her family's truffle farm near Deloraine. "It weighs 910 grams, which is definitely our record." Ms Terry said her trainee truffle sniffing dog Poppy made the di ...

Researchers in Australia have achieved a world record internet speed of 44.2 terabits per second, allowing users to download 1,000 HD movies in a single second. A team from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities used a “micro-comb” optical chip cont ...

At least eight candidates for a coronavirus vaccine are in the clinical development stage, and some could be ready as early as the “late fall”, Anthony Fauci, the US’ top infectious disease expert, has told senators. “The [National Institutes of Heal ...

Early in the morning on April 5, 2020, an article appeared on the website Medium with the title “Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret.” The article claimed that the pathology of COVID-19 was completely different ...

The Department of Justice said it expects to take action next week regarding the impact social distancing regulations are having on religious institutions across the country. Attorney General William Barr "is monitoring (government) regulation o ...

A pair of NASA astronauts will be returning to a whole new world when they come down to earth next week after months in space. Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, who have been isolated on the International Space Station for nine and seven months respect ...

In 2006, bear JJ1 kept Germans in suspense for weeks. JJ1, or Bruno, as the media called him, was the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years. He ventured into the Bavarian Alps from Trentino, Italy, where bears have been reintroduced in 1996. After ...

As the lead coder of bsnes, I've been attempting to perfect Super Nintendo emulation for the past 15 years. We are now at a point where that goal is in sight, but there we face one last challenge: accurate cycle timing of the SNES video processo ...

Citing the coronavirus, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday postponed a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional amendments that include a change potentially allowing him to stay in office until 2036. Putin didn’t set a new date for the p ...

The PC version of Mortal Kombat 4, which first launched in physical form in June 1998, is now available via GOG for $5.99. Here is an overview of the game, via its GOG page: A New Dimension of Kombat Shao Kahn has been defeated at the hands of Earth’ ...

The Pope urged Catholic priests on Tuesday to “have the courage to go out and see” those sickened by the novel coronavirus. “Let us pray to the Lord also for our priests, that they may have the courage to go out and visit the sick... and to accompany ...

When a massive star dies in a supernova, the explosion is only the beginning of the end. Most of the stellar matter is thrown far and wide, but the star’s iron-filled heart remains behind. This core packs as much mass as two Suns and quickly shrinks ...

NASA has announced four projects as part of its Discovery Program, which sees the space agency asking scientists to pitch focused, relatively low-cost missions for it to take on and develop into full-fledged missions. "Although they're not ...

With strong telescopes, scientists say they can still detect faint echoes of the Big Bang. Sometimes I wonder if maybe they’re picking up cosmic interference from a different signal event that won’t fade away. I’m talking about the Baby Boom.

Can a Mars rover have an existential crisis? NASA's Curiosity rover is wondering just exactly what its place is on Mars after experiencing a technical glitch. "Partway through its last set of activities, Curiosity lost its orientation,&qu ...

Even with its many flaws — and Samsung's eye-watering $2,000 asking price — customers have flocked to the company's first foldable phone, which has already sold half a million units. That's half of what a Samsung exec previously claime ...

A scholar with an agenda targets as ‘dangerous’ our conference on filtering out faulty research.

The war was nearly over on March 6, 1940. The enemy, propagandized as an unstoppable fighting machine, was indeed overwhelming the army of the country they’d invaded. Six days later, the aggressors would finally force an armistice, and soon grab cont ...