The claim: 'Every GOP administration since Reagan has overseen a recession while every Democratic administration since then has overseen a strong recovery and economic boom.' The economic collapse during the coronavirus pandemic has raised ...

Following the public release of iOS 13.5.1 today, Apple has also released the first beta of iOS 13.5.5 and iPadOS 13.5.5 to developers. This update likely focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements. [Update: Now rolling out to public beta user ...

While it may seem like the whole world has come to a standstill, NASA is notably continuing to prep for one of the most important missions in recent memory, set to launch on the 27th of May, coinciding with the week of Memorial Day. Riding aboard a S ...

Migratory birds may be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change compared with birds that stay put during the winter,scientists reported May 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that residential ...

Israeli researchers have developed an electric face mask that cleans itself and could kill coronavirus.The face-covering is powered by a mobile phone charger and will be sold for as little as $1. A team of engineers has invented a self-cleaning mask ...

Flashes of beauty have bloomed in the most random of places around New York over the past several years -- a trash can here, a phone booth there -- with surprise displays of flowers. But amid the pandemic, the floral designer behind them has a renewe ...

The most politically sensitive number in China right now arguably isn’t its coronavirus case count, but its unemployment rate. In a sign of just how much of a hot potato job numbers are for the Communist Party, a Chinese brokerage firm was last month ...

Major milestones will be achieved through quantum computing that a normal classical computer cannot, claims Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO. Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020, Sundar said the world needs to assemble and work under a common ...

North Korean state media on Thursday touted new technology aimed at providing real-time remote education from a number of different digital devices, as daily reports in the country’s ruling party daily stress the importance of tele-education amid nat ...

Ruby Rose’s surprise exit from the CW series “Batwoman” stemmed from an ill fit between star and production. According to multiple sources, Rose was unhappy with the long hours required of her as the series lead, which led to friction on the set. It ...

As the drive towards a vaccine against the new coronavirus accelerates, there’s some good news: People with COVID-19 have robust immune responses against the virus, scientists say. The researchers based their conclusions after testing immune T-cell c ...

Some states engaged in reopening their economies have not yet seen coronavirus outbreaks feared by health officials. In particular, Georgia and Florida, which were projected to see a sharp rise in new cases, have not experienced major new outbreaks i ...

It sounds too good to be true. But a compelling new study and computer model provide fresh evidence for a simple solution to help us emerge from this nightmarish lockdown. The formula? Always social distance in public and, most importantly, wear a ma ...

Britain’s largest bird of prey has returned to the English skies for the first time in 240 years. White-tailed eagles, which have a wing span up to 2.5 metres, were once a common sight across southern England until the 18th century when they were wip ...

Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever on a Mac notebook and doubled the storage across all standard configurations, delivering even more value to the most p ...

With news this week of the discovery of what could be the earliest known siddur, a Jewish prayer book dated at around 840 AD – we have put together a list of 10 of the oldest known surviving books in the world today. Writing and literature are though ...

A planning commissioner of a Northern California city was removed from his post Friday night after saying that just as a forest fire clears dead brush, “the sick, the old, the injured” should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” during th ...

US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according to a review of coronavirus aid meant for struggling small businesses by the investigative research group Documented and the Guardian. ...

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WhatsApp says that highly-forwarded messages have plunged since it introduced new rules. Earlier this month, in a major change, the company announced that it would prohibit people sending on "highly-forwarded" messages in an attempt to stop ...