Apple is working on a big change to how its Siri voice assistant works. While you currently have to say “Hey Siri” to activate the assistant hands-free, that may not be the case for much longer. Bloomberg reports today that Apple engineers are workin ...

The naturally occurring psychedelic compound psilocybin can significantly reduce symptoms of depression, according to data from the largest trial of its type ever conducted. Psilocybin was given to 233 patients who had already tried at least two anti ...

Mercedes Wedaa also accused the Amazon founder of discriminating against her because of her race and wrongfully terminating her, per court documents.

We’re used to gaming giants like Nintendo suing gamers and indie game developers, but no one expected IKEA, a well-known furniture company, to do the same. The firm issued a cease and desist letter to a single independent game developer, requesting t ...

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Auroras set off spectacular light shows in the night sky, but they are also illuminating another reason the ozone layer is being eaten away. Although humans are to blame for much of the ozone layer's depletion, observations of a type of aurora k ...

Amazon shoppers in the UK could receive a share of £900m in compensation, once a legal claim is submitted against the technology giant. The proposed claim alleges the company breached competition law and caused customers to pay higher prices. It is b ...

Earth’s global ocean should be considered a living entity with its own set of rights and protections, a paradigm shift that is informed by Indigenous worldviews and the burgeoning tradition of Earth law, according to a new article written by an inter ...

Seth Green has alleged that Bill Murray once dropped him in a bin “by his ankles” when he was a child, making him the latest in a spate of celebrities coming forward with claims about Murray’s behaviour after it emerged he had paid a reported US$100, ...

Few other video games manage to make users feel truly awful the way this one does. But its unsettling stories are what makes it so memorable and impactful.

A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a parking lot.

Authorities have seized around 300 dogs from a property in Nevada in what officials have described as a "large-scale" animal cruelty situation. Detectives from Nye County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) obtained a search warrant for a property ...

The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of consumer electronic...

Almost a year after it came to every other platform, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition surprise-launched on the Nintendo Switch today. The newest version of the beloved 2011 open-world RPG includes a bunch of DLC, mod content, and fishing. It’s also $70 on ...

After Anthony Bourdain took his own life in a French hotel room in 2018, his close friends, family and the people who for decades had helped him become an international TV star closed ranks against the swarm of media inquiries and stayed largely sile ...

A nationally representative survey of 8,027 Americans shows that across all racial demographics, overall interest in purchasing electric vehicles is high. Among those surveyed, 33% of white respondents, 38% of Black respondents, 43% of Latinos and 52 ...

Black holes are cosmic vacuum cleaners — massive objects so large that not even light can escape them. Most people imagine black holes do nothing but sit there and devour wandering pieces of gas or dust.

While we watch the disembowelment of various lawyers in the employ of a former president* and wrap ourselves in the momentum of the upcoming midterm elections, the climate crisis—its time and tides—waits for no one. Every other story in our politics ...

Solving a sleep mystery, Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University helps pave the way for new treatments. The richest award in science is going to a Stanford sleep scientist and other top thinkers in their fields, named winners of the glitzy Breakth ...

Walkie-talkie app Voxer accused Meta in 2020 of infringing its patents of communications tech, and a jury ruled in Voxer's favor on Wednesday.