Big-budget, blockbuster games had a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day on Tuesday. An unfortunate fluke? Or the beginning of the end?

Stephen Poloz puts his signature on newly printed Canadian money. Could he one day also put his digital signature on Bank of Canada e-cash? The central bank said Thursday it’s exploring the “potential merits” of getting into the e-money business amid ...

Extremely low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown are present in ocean water offshore Northern California, researchers announced Monday (Nov. 10).

The one who reads... Treading lightly in the illustrious footsteps of Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio version Go the F-ck to Sleep, Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston will lend his voice to the profane nursery rhyme’s sequel.

Ukraine's military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.

California just voted to release all their drug prisoners and will no longer allow felony convictions for drugs! Wow and Wow! Peace, Love and NeverGetBusted.

Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives.

What would it take for your car's navigation system to turn you into a gold-star road warrior? Only the right kind of drive.

Maine has reached a settlement with a nurse who was briefly quarantined in her home after treating victims of Ebola in West Africa, allowing her to travel freely in public but requiring her to monitor her health closely and report any symptoms.

As many as 50 senior members of the North Korean government and military have been publicly executed so far this year, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.

Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis, receives the Czech Republic's highest honour at a ceremony in Prague.

An Amazon River legend says that its famous pink river dolphins sometimes become shapeshifters and assume human form to seduce unwary travelers and lure them to a magical city called Encante. The catch is that this city is underwater. Once you’ve bee ...

Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found. The research provides crucial new evidence that it is these jets of "radio-frequency fe ...

A Q&A with filmmaker Laura Poitras on the release of her latest film, Citizenfour, which chronicles her involvement in the Snowden revelations.

This week brought a post by Matt Yglesias at Vox in which he says, more or less, it’s a good thing that Amazon is bringing the publishing industry to its knees. I’ve made my position on Amazon clear, but even beyond my baseline antipathy toward the o ...

Kids from poorer neighborhoods keep coming to trick-or-treat in mine. Do I have to give them candy?

The writer and puzzle master Martin Gardner, who died in 2010, was once said to have turned dozens of innocent youngsters into maths professors - and thousands of maths professors into innocent youngsters. Maths writer Colm Mulcahy looks back at the ...

Once a year, Elimelech Ehrlich travels from Jerusalem to Lakewood, N.J., with a cash box and a wireless credit-card machine. During the three weeks he typically spends in town, Ehrlich — a white-bearded, black-suited, black-skullcapped, wisecracking ...

Starbucks is giving its workers raises, free food and the ability to show off their tattoos.

Malaria killed more than 600,000 people in 2012. Time to rachet up the war on bugs.