U.S retailer Target's vegan offering has been branded a 'sign of major progress' by animal advocates. Target announced its Good and Gather line - which is not vegan but includes a number of vegan items - in 2019. Yesterday, the retail giant announced it was expanding the label with new plant-based protein products including beef-style patties and crispy chickenless tenders among others.

Fossilised sperm discovered inside a mussel-like crustacean that was trapped in amber 100 million years ago may be the oldest ever found, scientists say. The female ostracod was unearthed by an international team of palaeontologists. They believe it mated shortly before becoming trapped in the resin. Their findings, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provide "an extremely rare opportunity" to learn more about the evolution of the reproductive process, they added.

The moves came as the clock ticks down on President Trump’s executive order to block the Chinese-owned social media app.

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The console wars might not matter much to major PC players, but that hasn’t stopped Valve co-founder Gabe Newell from stating he believes the Xbox Series X is better than the PS5. In an interview with New Zealand television program The Project, Newell was asked which of the two next-generation consoles he believed is the best. He sharply replied: “Xbox.”

NFL officials said Thursday that all league facilities will close on Election Day, Nov. 3, to ensure that players and staff have adequate time to vote.

The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors of stock exchanges are mostly gone, replaced by windowless rooms full of servers, but the stock market is still a busy place. On the 13 US stock exchanges combined, around 50 million trades happen every day. And yet there’s another digital marketplace out there that processes tens of billions of transactions daily, one whose complexity makes the NASDAQ look like a lemonade stand: online advertising.

The U.S. economy shrank at an alarming annual rate of 31.7% during the April-June quarter as it struggled under the weight of the viral pandemic, the government estimated Thursday. It was the sharpest quarterly drop on record.

A former Apple engineer says the modified iPod secretly recorded data using hidden extra hardware inside.

A Commerce Department statement added 38 Huawei affiliates around the world to the "entity list," claiming that the company was using international subsidiaries to circumvent the sanctions which prevent export of US-based technology.

As it announces better than expected financial results, Apple supplier Foxconn is also reportedly planning to increase moving production away from China. Foxconn, which has just reported second quarter profits 34% up from last year, is now said to believe China's manufacturing supremacy is over.

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Here's how Lifetime revived the series in the '90s, leading to a renaissance that has extended to Netflix and an upcoming ABC reboot starring Leslie Jones.

A new machine learning program called MISIM can figure out what a snippet of code is meant to do and offer up new code to make it faster or more efficient.

Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do