House speaker Nancy Pelosi escalated an attack on Dr Deborah Birx, a senior scientist on Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce, in television comments on Sunday as Birx defended the administration’s handling of the pandemic.

Besides developing video games, Konami has long making arcade, pachinko, and other amusement hardware. Now, add gaming PCs to that list. The PC gaming brand is called Arespear and features the tagline, “Advanced revolution of esports.” The name is from Greek mythology, combining “Ares” with the word “spear.” Currently there are three entries in the line up: the Arespear C700+ for 338,800 yen ($3,228), Arespear C700 for 316,800 yen ($3,018), and the Arespear C300 for 184,800 yen ($1,760.94).

In the streaming era, music is accessed from a variety of online services, ephemeral in nature and never living on board the device. However, the online audio revolution really kicked off with the …

Some Vikings may have died from now-extinct strains of one of humankind’s deadliest pathogens: smallpox. Researchers collected DNA from viruses in the remains of northern Europeans living during the Viking Age, some of whom were likely Vikings themselves, and found that they were infected with extinct but related versions of the variola virus that causes smallpox, the team reports in the July 24 Science. The new finding pushes back the proven record of smallpox infecting people by almost 1,000...

The US removal of Hong Kong's special economic status is partly a response to China's growing use of businesses there to exert its power.

New research has found that people with "dark" personality characteristics, such as psychopathy and narcissism, are less likely to comply with efforts

Calling his cognitive impairment test “very hard” was only No. 5.

The ability to adapt to new environments has given humans an unmatched evolutionary edge in both colonizing and thriving in many corners of the world. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University have identified a small region of neurons responsible for cognitive flexibility- our ability to adapt to new environments and concepts.

Many countries such as the U.K. and Mexico and a handful of U.S. cities such as Philadelphia and San Francisco have imposed soda taxes in an effort to fight rising obesity. Lots of research shows a link between drinking sugary substances and a whole host of negative health outcomes, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, tooth decay and gout.

Scientists have developed a “catch and kill” air filter that can trap the virus responsible for Covid-19, killing it instantly.mA study, published in the journal Materials Today Physics, found that 99.8 per cent of the Covid-19 virus was killed in a single pass through a filter made from commercially available nickel foam heated to 200 degrees Centigrade (Celsius), or about 392 degrees Fahrenheit. It also killed 99.9 per cent of the anthrax spores in testing at the Galveston National Laborat...

Hugh Laurie Tweeted about the changing perception of animal rights, climate change, and other social issues—how might we feel in 100 years?

Furniture giant IKEA is set to launch a vegan version of its popular meatballs. Although IKEA already has vegan meatballs on sale, the new dish has the “look and taste” of animal meat. From August 3, UK customers can enjoy the meatballs in IKEA bistros, priced at £1.50 for eight balls. Bags of the new product can also be purchased from the food market, priced at £2.75 for 500g. The meal will be on sale in IKEA restaurants from October 26.

Superstar, Robert Downey Jr takes big screen heroism to life by taking real action to save the earth. Like one in character, “Iron Man” is hopeful about using robotics, AI and the advanced technologies in reversing the earth’s destructive carbon footprint. By alleging full support to a brand-new initiative called Footprint Coalition. He refers to this as a significant technological advancement amidst the great alarm over our state of environment.

Nintendo has rolled out a new update for the Switch and it bumps the hybrid device up to version 10.1.0. This is the smallest update that's been released in recent months, and according to the official support patch notes, sees the return of sweet stability improvements.

Joe Biden's expansion of his energy platform will call for investing $2 trillion over four years on climate-friendly sources and a mandate to fully decarbonize U.S. power by 2035, Bloomberg reports. Tuesday's rollout will provide specifics on the long-anticipated plan to move his platform further left and make it more expansive.

Whenever I talk to people who are suddenly concerned about “cancel culture” or “online mobs”, my first thought is always: “Where have you been for the last decade?” I’ve been online long enough and, like many others, been receiving criticism and abuse online for long enough, to know that what some see as a new pattern of virtual censure by moral purists is mostly a story about the internet, not ideology or identity.

Forget skeuomorphism, or even the newly coined “neumorphism”. macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever. In the last few weeks there have been a lot of suggestions that this is the start of a new “fun” era of visual design, or that Apple is returning to skeuomorphism, or even a new thing called neumorphism.

U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. “I’m extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly,” Musk said in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

Sinatra once told Trump to "go fuck himself".

The Office US star Leslie David Baker really, really wants a spin-off starring his character Stanley Hudson, so much so that he's trying to get it made himself through crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The potential project, titled Uncle Stan, will focus on the character being called upon by his nephew Lucky in order to help out at his motorcycle/flower shop in California.