Between April and June, world-famous social media platform Youtube banned 2596 Chinese accounts that were engaging in coordinated influence operations. The company also had banned 277 Chinese accounts in the first quarter of the year due to the same ...

President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days, three people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Seven & I Holdings Co., the world’s largest convenience store franchiser, agreed to buy Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Speedway gas stations for $21 billion, forging ahead with one of the year’s biggest deals even as the pandemic depresses economic a ...

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson has tested positive for Covid-19, the team announced in a statement Sunday. Pederson is "asymptomatic and doing well," the Eagles' statement read. He is in self-quarantine and in communicat ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube, which debuted July 19, 2000. It also marks the 19th anniversary of Apple’s announcement that it was putting the Cube on ice. That’s not my joke—it’s Apple’s, straight from the headline o ...

Russian scientists are working to retrieve a well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth from a lake in northern Siberia

China could be the second country to operate a rover on Mars.

The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree.

America today faces a terrifying danger: political correctness. It is an existential threat not just to the United States, but all of human civilization. By this, obviously, I mean right-wing political correctness. Maybe you’re surprised to hear this ...

The total case tally of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States has reached more than 77,000 in just a single day, the highest so far in the country. Some states have already ordered portable cooler or refrigerated trucks as morg ...

In a pandemic that forces us to stay home, bingeing on doom-and-gloom news feels irresistible. These health experts offer ways to break the habit.

The study, by academics at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and the LEGO Foundation, pulled together fragmentary evidence from the past 40 years to understand more about how fathers play with their children when they are very young ( ...

The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.

Apple opened iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 beta testing to the general public, allowing anyone to get a preview of the features coming to the iPhone and iPad later this fall. But as with any beta program, there will almost certainly be bugs and issues that ha ...

Democrats and some consumers are calling to boycott Goya Foods products after the Hispanic owner and chief executive officer (CEO) praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday. "We're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader l ...

Many states reopened too quickly, but the damage to the US economy may not be as bad as first feared.

After Fukushima in 2011, Germany decreed the end of nuclear power by 2022. A decision strongly criticized, especially in France, world champion in nuclear power and accused of replacing nuclear with coal, thereby increasing their CO 2 emissions. A “f ...

A rotating black hole is such an extreme force of nature that it drags surrounding time and space around with it. So it is only natural to ask whether black holes could be used as some sort of energy source. In 1969, mathematical physicist Roger Penr ...

Allocating more than £10 billion for research as part of the 2020–21 budget, the UK government seems to be well on track to boost science funding to 2.4% of GDP by 2027 as they had promised in March, an analysis by the Campaign for Science and Engine ...

John Fusco has been writing scripts for 34 years. In that time, he’s seen his work brought to life by stars including Jackie Chan and Woody Harrelson. As a producer, he has worked with blockbuster budgets totalling tens of millions of dollars, and hi ...