Repair is one of the secret keys to a better life. Repairs keep our gadgets in use longer (saving our pocketbooks) and divert e-waste from landfills or toxic recycling processes (saving our planet). Repair is an engine of community prosperity: when you get your phone screen fixed at your corner repair shop, your money goes to a locally owned small business (my daughter and the phone screen guy's daughter go to the same school and he always tut-tuts over the state of my chipped and dented ph...

Mitsubishi has developed a new indoor lighting system that mimics blue skies, sunrises and sunsets. The company hopes the system will prove popular in offices and homes that lack natural light. BBC Click's Dan Simmons finds out more.

The Columbus, Ohio, Police Department has released bodycam footage from a police officer who got a call about two young black men with a gun. When Officer Peter Casuccio arrived at the scene, he found an 11-year-old and 13-year-old boy with a realistic BB gun. Casuccio had an tense exchange with the boys about the dangers of carrying a gun, saying he could've killed them.

What if an international panel of climate change scientists issued a nearly 900-page five-alarm report, warning of looming droughts, floods, famine and tens of millions displaced by rising waves in the coming decades—and no one listened? That’s pretty much the state of the Republican Party as it heads into the 2018 midterm elections. Few have even mentioned the issue of climate change at all, and those that have are almost entirely skeptical that climate change exists at all.

A highly anticipated meeting happens Friday night. It's not the inner-city showdown between Adams and Washington under the lights; instead, it marks the first time the Eagles' honorary captain joins them on the sidelines. He's a toddler from New York state. "It's the same as having an 18-year-old or 17-year-old captain. It's really the same thing. Treat them no differently. He's one of us. He's a part of the team," said Ira Armstead and Jackson Joyce...

Hundreds of people are killed by police in the US each year, and much attention has been paid recently to the high proportion that are black. But there's another disturbing trend that is rarely discussed. It was shortly after 05:00 when three West Milwaukee police officers broke into the home of 22-year-old Adam Trammell to find him naked and bewildered, standing in his bathtub as water from the shower ran down his body.

People can die simply because they’ve given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to new research. The study, by Dr John Leach, a senior research fellow in the University of Portsmouth’s Department of Sport and Exercise Science, is the first to describe the clinical markers for ‘give-up-it is’, a term used to describe what is known medically as psychogenic death.

Lindsay Lohan got a fist in the face after accusing a Syrian refugee family of “trafficking” and trying to take the children from their parents. The viral video, which is believed to have been filmed in Moscow and posted to Lohan’s Instagram account, starts with the actress approaching a family in the street and saying to her viewers, “I just want to show you a family I met, a Syrian refugee family. I’m going to introduce you to them.”

A new report from BuzzFeed News highlights how the “Siri Suggested Websites” feature in Safari can surface “debunked conspiracies, shock videos, and false information.” Essentially, when users would type things such as “QAnon” or “Pizzagate” into the Safari search bar, the browser would suggest related “low-quality information.” The Siri Suggested Websites feature in Safari surfaces content from websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia based on the search term being typed into the search bar.

Bethesda -- the makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout -- has granted the wish of a 12-year-old boy named Wes with a rare type of cancer to see Fallout 76 by bringing the game to his house to play months before release. Wes has been in a fight against stage-four neuroblastoma for most of his life after being diagnosed with the form of cancer at just five years old.

MIT professor Dina Katabi is building a gadget that can sit in one spot and track everything from breathing to walking, no wearables required.

News aggregators like Google would be required to pay media companies a so-called "link tax" when sharing their content.

Out of Microsoft’s first party titles, Forza Horizon 4 is certainly the most anticipated one right now. The third installment already garnered widespread acclaim and developer Playground Games is looking to build on that by expanding the feature set and delivering a stunning British backdrop to the game. Speaking with GamesIndustry at Gamescom 2018, Aaron Greenberg (Global Product Marketing Manager of Xbox) said that the expectation is for Forza Horizon 4 to become the biggest and best-selling...

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the body fails to change the way it treats America. "If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," Mr Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News. The WTO was established to provide rules for global trade and resolve disputes between countries. But Mr Trump, who has been pushing protectionist policies, says the US is treated unfairly by the body.

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Norway in have discovered a network of brain cells that expresses our sense of time within experiences and memories. "This network provides timestamps for events and keeps track of the order of events within an experience," says Professor Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate and director of the Kavli Institute, which is based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). This area of the brain where time is experien...

Power has been restored to all of Puerto Rico for the first time since Hurricane Maria struck nearly 11 months ago, officials said Tuesday. The island's electric utility announced that crews working in the southern city of Ponce reconnected the last neighborhood that had been offline since the Sept. 20 storm knocked out the U.S. territory's power grid.