Remember all those times men said that women-led superhero movies didn’t have an audience? Well, get ready to laugh in their big dumb faces: Captain Marvel, the first female-led film of the MCU, is on track to earn an estimated $140-$180 million its opening weekend. Within the first 24 hours of advance ticket sales, Captain Marvel was already one of Fandango’s top three MCU pre-sellers, trailing Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War.

Is this the start of ‘orbital entertainment’?

Chevrolet Bolt EV sales decreased in the United States while increasing in Canada, Mexico and South Korea in the third quarter of 2018.

President Donald Trump is now the “proud” owner of a government shutdown — his third. And he doesn’t seem to mind. The threat of an extended shutdown is far less of a concern to the president than not making good on his central campaign pledge to build a border wall and looking like a fraud, according to White House aides and Trump allies. Trump spent the weekend digging in on his position behind closed doors, meeting with hard-line conservatives and signaling through his top aides that ...

After this year, let's forget these things ever happened.

Historians really figured out the platform this year, and we’re all smarter for it.

Net neutrality proponents now have less than two weeks to convince 38 House lawmakers to support an effort to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality. Seventeen of those votes could come from Democrats who have yet to sign on—all of whom have received significant contributions from internet service providers such as Comcast.

Around the world attitudes towards the use of cannabis are shifting. Mexico's new government plans to legalise recreational cannabis use, as does the incoming government of Luxembourg. Meanwhile, New Zealand's leaders are considering a referendum on what their approach should be. As public opinion - and that of governments - changes, it seems increasingly likely that other countries will follow, raising questions about how they work together to manage the use and supply of cannabis.

Each day in India’s capital New Delhi, hundreds of thousands of people take the quiet subway across the widely crowded suburbs to reach their work. The quietness is interrupted every few minutes as the train reaches a station and an ever-growing population jostles to find a seat. Seconds later, everyone returns their attention to their smartphone screen, resuming the comedy sketch they were watching on YouTube.

A Dutch church has been holding a service for over 800 hours to protect an immigrant family from deportation because Dutch law forbids police from entering places of worship while a service is ongoing. The Hague's Bethel Church has been holding the ceremony around the clock since 1:30 p.m. on October 26, the church said. It is trying to protect the Tamrazyan family, who fled Armenia in 2010, CBC and CNN reported. The family has three children.

If you haven't been following the Fallout 76 news, there was a rather large uproar about the duffel bag that shipped with the $200 Power Armor Edition. The bag was advertised as canvas, but it was replaced with a cheap-looking nylon version with no warning from Bethesda beforehand. Naturally, Fallout 76's biggest spenders were unhappy about this bag-switching, and Bethesda's solution of giving a measly 500 Atoms as compensation for that substandard bag just made things worse.

Nine companies will vie for a share of more than $2 billion dollars to build small landers to carry experimental payloads to the lunar surface.

Life on earth is being wiped out by humans living beyond the planet's means, according to conservation organisation WWF. Their latest global report claims wildlife is dying out faster than ever and says nature needs international "life support". Between 1970 and 2014, 60% of all animals with a backbone - fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals - were wiped out by human appetites and activity, the report says.

In the latest issue of Genome Research, a group of North American scientists have, for the first time ever, published a full map of the cannabis genome. Among the myriad of interesting insights to glean from the chart is the finding that the genes that encode for THC and CBD production evolved thanks to bits of DNA introduced by viruses that infected the plant and successfully colonized its genome millions of years ago.

Wherever humans go, our bacterial companions will follow. That’s as true in space as it is on Earth, and while we’ve known that microbial astronauts are present on the International Space Station, one group of researchers has just found a new reason to worry about them.

Over the course of 2018, the IT and cybersecurity industries have endured some impressive highs, as well as concerning lows that include high-profile data breaches and hacks, major scams and exposed vulnerabilities. Security and privacy issues remain a concern, and 2019 will see the industry finding ways to expand on major breakthroughs such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) while it copes with the security issues that arise from them.