It’s 2019, and the video store is a relic. Blockbuster, once a towering VHS empire with stores on six continents, has shriveled to the point of just one surviving store in the world. Tell a friend you’re going to the store to rent a video, and they’l ...

After about 15 years working in the meat industry, butcher Brian Kavanagh found he was concealing a secret. Much of his adult life had been spent shaping, slicing and trimming animal products by the slab without a qualm - a career that began when he ...

What are some of the most powerful rockets today and how do they compare to rockets of the past? There have been many, many launch vehicles over the years. The list of retired vehicles is almost never ending. But how do these rockets of old stack up ...

It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel. A smart CEO I know recently mentioned this to me in the context of what’s happening to the internet. The idea of making citizens carry documents to ...

Hardware design, rather than algorithms, will help us achieve the next big breakthrough in AI. That’s according to Bill Dally, Nvidia’s chief scientist, who took the stage Tuesday at EmTech Digital, MIT Technology Review’s AI conference. “Our current ...

Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop. Massive industrial s ...

How Actually Strong Is Thor’s Stormbreaker? Ι The constants in life are death, taxes, and Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) relationship with his hammer. Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will know that Mjolnir has been the Asgardian’s sidekick for his en ...

Sir David Attenborough is to present an "urgent" new documentary about climate change for BBC One. The one-off film will focus on the potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions. The broadcaster says "conditions have cha ...

Some 12,000 years ago, the land was exceptionally fertile curving up from the Nile River basin across Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, down into the Tigris River Valley. The area’s earliest settlers grew wheat, barely and lentils. Some kept pigs and sheep. F ...

We have just picked up a new achievement for Minecraft, related to the incoming Bedrock Update. There is 1 achievement worth a total of 20 Gamerscore, none of which are secret. You can check out the details below.

A new Sports Illustrated article offers a look inside Apple's so-called sports surveillance room at its Results Way office complex in Cupertino, California, where a team of Apple employees have been monitoring sports events for newsworthy and un ...

These and many other insights are from this Indeed’s The Best Jobs in the U.S.: 2019 study released this week. Indeed defined the best jobs as those experiencing the fastest growth measured by the increase in job postings between 2015 and 2018, in co ...

Despite overwhelming bipartisan support for the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund by Congress and signage into law as part of the massive John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act by President Tru ...

Apple’s latest legal fight with Qualcomm started last week and a jury verdict today spells disappointing news for Apple. The jury for the suit voted that Apple infringed on all three of the patents that Qualcomm based the case on as it seeks $31 mill ...

Android Q beta lets Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 users squeeze to launch third-party assistants. Active Edge is restricted to Google Assistant in Android Pie.

In April 2016, Venus Lockett was about to give a speech at an event she volunteered for near her home in Atlanta. She was already stressed. The previous night, she had stayed up late making her presentation, and then deleted it by mistake. As she ste ...

There is an old saying that goes “look at who they attack, and you will find out who they are afraid of.” This seems to be very true as a growing number of media companies line up to attack cord cutting. Get ready for a new flood of these attacks as ...

Lori Loughlin, charged with paying bribes to cheat her kids into college, was taken into custody in Los Angeles after turning herself in.

HOW DID J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings? The simple answer is that he wrote it. He sat down in a chair in 1937 and spent more than a dozen years working on what remains a masterwork of fantasy literature and a genius stroke of immersive w ...

Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s launching in 50 more cities.