A California couple has been criminally charged for their role in igniting last year’s destructive El Dorado wildfire after they used a pyrotechnic device during a gender-reveal party. The blaze torched close to 23,000 acres (9,300 hectares), destroyed five homes and 15 other buildings, and claimed the life of a firefighter, Charlie Morton.

We should all be worried about the latest Catholic scandal.

Much of the internet has stopped working amid a widespread outage across different apps and websites. Airlines including Delta, online stores such as Amazon, games including Call of Duty, streaming services such as HBO Max and a range of banks were unavailable, according to tracking website Down Detector. Follow all the latest updates here.

We’re seeing a ton of new games, and many of them blur the lines between video games and other types of activities.

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) secretive research unit said on Friday it will launch Intrinsic, its new robotics software and artificial intelligence project, under the Google parent's segment that houses futuristic businesses such as Verily and Waymo.

The largest increases occurred in Slavic, Baltic, English-speaking and Latin American countries.

These buyers often come armed with the kind of financial firepower ordinary Americans can't hope to match, housing experts say.

Apple is widely rumored to be planning a new iPad mini with a significant redesign, including a larger 8.5-inch to 9-inch display with slimmer bezels, a Touch ID power button instead of a home button, a USB-C port instead of a Lightning connector, and more.

Scientists now have absolute numbers for the thickness of the Red Planet's crust, mantle and core.

With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?

Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, in a move that’s designed to prevent potential harassment and spam on the platform. The feature, which is rolling out over the next two weeks, also stops accounts from accessing any files you’ve shared with them in the past, and removes any of their past files from your drive.

Physicists have demonstrated a large-scale, programmable quantum simulator, featuring a precisely-arranged two-dimensional array of 256 quantum bits (qubits). Designed by a team headed up at Harvard University, the system uses arrays of highly focused laser beams to trap individual atoms and drag them into desirable arrangements.

Mercedes-Benz laid out Thursday a €40 billion ($47 billion) plan to become an electric-only automaker by the end of the decade, a target that will push the company to become more vertically integrated, train its workforce and secure the batteries needed to power its products. Mercedes has provided …

Switzerland's 15th-Century farmers and vintners had a dangerously creative solution to irrigating their mountainous land that's still in use today.

The Murdoch-controlled cable news network “continues to put Americans at risk by pushing anti-vax hysteria,” TLP declares.

The device detects the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the gas that makes breath bad - experts in Daejeon, South Korea report.

Weekly jobless claims unexpected moved higher last week despite hopes that the U.S. labor market is poised for a strong recovery heading into the fall. Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 419,000 for the week ended July 17, well above the 350,000 Dow Jones estimate and more than the upwardly revised 368,000 from the previous period, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The enhanced rain is created using drone technology that unleashes electrical charges into clouds in order for them to clump together and form precipitation

Oxford University researchers urge people to reduce consumption by three-quarters or give it up

Artificial intelligence has been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. Proteins are essential building blocks of living organisms; every cell we have in us is packed with them. Understanding protein structures is critical for advancing medicine, but until now, only a fraction of these have been worked out.