The financial space was rocked by the news that German fintech group Wirecard filed for insolvency owing €3.5bn. Not only a financial failure but also a seemingly “elaborate and sophisticated fraud,” according to EY, the company’s auditor for more th ...

President Donald Trump's campaign is making a solemn vow to supporters that he will never allow the destruction of iconic statues located in foreign countries. The Daily Beast reports that the Trump campaign over the weekend sent out a new ad fe ...

The walled garden is getting a few more gates.

No more General Lee in Forza games.

Netflix has pledged to allocate about 2% of the $5 billion it holds in cash — some $100 million — to "financial institutions and organizations that directly support Black communities in the United States," the company announced today.

A face mask mandate would not only cut the daily growth rate of new cases of Covid-19, but could also save the U.S. economy up to 5% in GDP.

Asteroids and comets pose "one of the most significant risks to human civilisation", it is claimed.

Evelyn Forget was a psychology student in Toronto in 1974 when she first heard about a ground-breaking social experiment that had just begun in the rural Canadian community of Dauphin, Manitoba.

A study argues that it is not enough to invest in green technologies; the world's affluent must stop overconsuming

During the coronavirus lockdown, a fifth-grade teacher, Linda, contacted me asking for help. She teaches in a school district in Southern California where over 80 percent of the students qualify for free lunches. Linda was struggling with students’ n ...

Your Prime Day shopping spree came with free, fast shipping — but experts say there’s a hidden environmental cost that doesn’t show up on the checkout page.

We're happy to confirm that Cyberpunk 2077 will be backwards compatible with both next-gen consoles!

Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning woman who survived being shot by the Taliban, has completed her degree at Oxford University. Yousafzai, who is 22, tweeted early on Friday morning to say she had finished her studies. "Hard to expr ...

They're built for privacy and community—and that's just what makes them dangerous.

Bright radio signals from Titan indicate the presence of ancient lake beds in its tropics, a new analysis finds.

The public performance of white supremacy is key to upholding it.

Police confirm that Katherine Williams-Dunning, the country star's daughter and granddaughter of legendary singer Hank Williams, died on Saturday evening.

IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it's concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling.

Astronomers have discovered an activity cycle in another fast radio burst, potentially unearthing a significant clue about these mysterious deep-space phenomena. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extragalactic flashes of light that pack a serious wallo ...

A new report says that total consumer debt today is now $1.6 trillion higher, in nominal terms, than the previous peak of $12.68 million during the 2008 financial crisis. Here’s what you need to know.