Spider-Man mania is back. The popular comic-book superhero's recent resurgence has expanded beyond cinemas and into the world of video games, with the wallcrawler's latest self-titled game selling a record 3.3 million copies in the first three days of its release earlier this month. While Sony did not provide an official number, with a retail price of $59.99 for the game the 3.3 million copies translates to roughly $198 million, crushing the $117 million opening weekend box office of t...

California Gov. Jerry Brown accused President Donald Trump Monday of hurting American auto manufacturers by advocating for fewer restrictions on mass polluters in the US. Brown indicated that the Trump administration's effort to boost US coal producers and weaken fuel-economy standards will ultimately help countries like China, where businesses are going all-in on electric vehicles and other clean-energy products. Trump is "building the Chinese auto industry" while destroying Amer...

IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE fact that the pricey pocket computers we carry around with us at all times are prime targets for thieves—as well as very easy to leave behind in subway cars or on coffee shop tables. Now that we all rely on our smartphones for so much, having one stolen or misplaced can feel like the end of the world. But it doesn't have to be, not quite. Here are the preparations you can take before the worst happens, and what to do if it does.

Electric and other ultra-low emission cars, vans and taxis could be given special green number plates to boost awareness and increase the use of environmentally “clean” driving. Green plates are already used in Norway, Canada and China on green vehicles including electric and hydrogen cars, making them both distinct and visible to other road others.

The team behind the acclaimed “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister” said they would not be opposed to spinning the episode off into its own series after it picked up three Emmy wins on Saturday. Executive producer Charlie Brooker said he and his colleagues would “never say never” to making a series out of the standalone episode, with fellow executive producer Annabel Jones chiming in “The opposite of never. Forever!”

Romain Grosjean has revealed he nearly gave up on his motorsport career altogether to become a chef after losing his Renault Formula 1 seat at the end of 2009. Grosjean made his F1 debut halfway through the 2009 campaign after being drafted into Renault as Nelson Piquet Jr’s replacement at the European Grand Prix in the wake of the Crashgate scandal. Despite qualifying within 0.3s of teammate Fernando Alonso on his first race weekend and showing glimpses of promise across his seven-race spell ...

Cincinnati police investigators said an officer who deployed a Taser to stop an 11-year-old girl from shoplifting violated the department's use of force policy, but also found problems with his telling the girl: "You know, sweetheart, this is why there’s no grocery stores in the black community.” The comment was caught on Officer Kevin Brown's body camera and is the second time the officer is accused of making inappropriate comments...

The Witcher has found its, err, Witcher—in none other than DC’s Man of Steel himself, Henry Cavill. Netflix’s Witcher series—showrun by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and based on the fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, rather than the wildly popular video game adaptations by CD Projekt Red—has been quietly bubbling away in the background for the last year or so...

More needs to be done to stop small social media websites being exploited by extremists, experts have said. The likes of Facebook and Twitter have responded to calls to remove extremist content over the last 18 months. And some smaller social media sites have joined a scheme where information is shared to enable blocking content.

JAMES Ricketson’s family have said they are “absolutely devastated” after the Australian filmmaker was jailed for six years on espionage charges. A guilty verdict was delivered in a Cambodian court by a bench of three judges in Phnom Penh on Friday. The 69-year-old was whisked away in a prison van yelling: “Which country am I spying for?” Afterward, Mr Ricketson’s nephew Bim Ricketson said he was extremely concerned about his welfare, noting he was not in perfect health.

The 1965 Pontiac GTO Chief Camino is a one-off vehicle that should almost certainly have been built and offered for sale by Pontiac in the mid-1960s. It never was, but this is probably due to the fact that there’s no indication Pontiac even considered building it. The car you see here wasn’t built by them, it was built as a prototype by a man named Ron in his garage over a period of 10 years – using an original Pontiac GTO as the starting point.

Elon Musk was apparently none too happy when British cave diver Vern Unsworth said the submarine Musk built — and shouted about to the world on Twitter and in the New York Times — was a “PR stunt” and that he should stick said sub “where it hurts.” So much so that Musk logged on to Twitter and proclaimed Unsworth a “pedo,” without any evidence to back his claims, to his 22 million followers.

The Pentagon is alarmed about Russian propaganda that indicates the Syrian government could be preparing to attack the rebel-held province of Idlib, a Defense Department spokesman said.

Jeremy Clarkson's social media network, founded alongside fellow Grand Tour presenters Richard Hammond and James May, has lost £12.5m in its first two years. Clarkson and co set up 'DriveTribe' to considerable fan-fare in November 2016 but new accounts filed this week show the company lost £4.2m in its first year and £8.3m in its second.

Nintendo Switch is getting some never before seen third party support for a Nintendo platform. Diablo was recently confirmed for the Nintendo Switch and now Saints Row The Third is also heading to the Nintendo Switch as revealed at Gamescom. Saints Row The Third will be published by Deep Silver. This port is being handled by Deep Silver FISHLABS. Currently, no release date has been confirmed for it.

The Colombian government has started to use drones to destroy the plants that produce cocaine. Small aircraft loaded with herbicide are being sent to search for illegal fields of coca. President Iván Duque has favoured the use of the unmanned aircraft to ensure that damage to neighbouring crops is kept to a minimum.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note phones have always been about more. More screen, more battery, more specs, more power, more features; if you want more of something, the Note is the phone to get. It’s a phone designed and built for the power user who won’t settle for anything less. The new Note 9 gives the most more of any Note phone. It has the biggest screen, the fastest processor, the biggest battery, the largest storage, and the most features.

A landmark grand jury report on clergy abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania detailed how priests often used religious rituals, symbols of the faith and the threat of eternity in hell to groom, molest and rape children. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called it the “weaponization of faith.” Some of the examples cited in the report, released Tuesday, of how over 300 “predator priests,” dating back to the 1940s...