With extreme weather disasters making headlines almost daily this summer, Congress appears ready to start spending billions of dollars to fight climate change. The bipartisan infrastructure deal currently making its way through the U.S. Senate includes notable first steps meant to address the climate crisis, including billions for flood control, fire prevention and sea-level-rise mitigation.

Samsung's huge Odyssey G9 gaming monitor just got a big upgrade this year. The 2021 Odyssey Neo G9 relies on QLED technology to achieve 2,000 nits brightness.

Microsoft officials are warning ongoing component shortages have affected and will continue to impact its Windows, Surface and Xbox console businesses.

So far this year, there has been no shortage of photography-worthy celestial events centered around the moon. After a super pink moon in April, a total lunar eclipse in May and the Strawberry supermoon in June, it may seem that nothing can match that, until the upcoming eclipses towards the end of the year. Yet, this full moon comes with a worrying aspect and a warning.

Game-by-game report: Novak Djokovic won his sixth Wimbledon title after a four-set victory over Italian Matteo Berrettini

Environmentalists in recent days have expressed outrage over the eight-year prison sentence handed to Jessica Reznicek — a nonviolent "water protector" who pleaded guilty to damaging equipment at the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa — while calling the fossil fuel companies who knowingly caused the climate emergency the real criminals who should be held to account.

DMX officially died from a cocaine-induced heart attack that caused a lack of blood circulation to his brain, a source from the Westchester County medical examiner’s office told Vulture. “It was cardiac arrest for a period of time, so there was no circulation to the brain,” the source said, later explaining that acute cocaine intoxication had “caused this chain of events.”

At time of writing, exactly one federal party leader has publicly condemned what is now a quite astonishing church-burning epidemic in Indigenous communities in four provinces. In a tweet on Monday, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole called it “appalling,” which it surely is at a bare minimum. Such acts may or may not “undermine the important discussions” with respect to reconciliation, as O’Toole claimed; we don’t yet know who might have set these fires or why.

A wireless pacemaker that can dissolve in the body has been created for patients who need only temporary help to regulate their heartbeat. Since the first pacemaker was implanted in 1958, millions of people have benefited from the devices. According to the national audit for cardiac rhythm management, 32,902 pacemakers were implanted for the first time in the UK in the year 2018-19 alone.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss which has left him "looking emaciated" is said to have broken the nation's heart "so much". The tightly controlled state media quoted an unidentified resident of the country's capital Pyongyang who said recent images of Kim had upset people across the nation.

There have been few moments in the history of work as pivotal as the one we find ourselves in now. It took a pandemic to normalise remote working, and, despite the fears of many CEOs, most organisations saw no demonstrable loss of productivity. Now, the global workforce is demanding its right to retain the autonomy it gained through increased flexibility as societies open up again. Pre-pandemic, it was not uncommon for an employer to ask staff to justify their need to work from home. Post-pandem...

Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Naval Medical Research Center partnered with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Acuitas Therapeutics to develop a novel vaccine based on mRNA technology that protects against malaria in animal models, publishing their findings in npj Vaccines.

Retinal tissue has been regrown in three patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with geographic atrophy or dry (atrophic) AMD in a Phase I/IIa study conducted by Lineage Cell Therapeutics. “This has the potential to offer a whole new paradigm to treat the disease,” Brian Culley, CEO of Lineage, told BioSpace.

CD Projekt Red, the maker of The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077, and other popular games, said on Friday that proprietary data taken in a ransomware attack disclosed four months ago is likely circulating online. “Today, we have learned new information regarding the breach and now have reason to believe that internal data illegally obtained during the attack is currently being circulated on the Internet,” company officials said in a statement.

More than 100 members of Australia's mafia and bikie underworld have been arrested in the nation's biggest-ever crime sting, police say.

Great apes – humanity’s closest relatives, are predicted to lose a “devastating” 90% of their homelands in Africa in coming decades, according to a study. All gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are already endangered or critically endangered. But a combination of the climate crisis, the destruction of wild areas for minerals, timber and food, and human population growth is on track to decimate their ranges by 2050, the scientists said. Half of the projected lost territory will be in natio...

MOTORCYCLE security is constantly having to look at ways of staying ahead of ever-more ardent criminals. Be it through high-tech tracking systems, or ear-splitting alarms, the firms behind security devices are having to get more and more creative – and now it seems devious!