Scientists pursuing the holy grail of energy generation are taking giant steps

Even though alcohol kills millions of people every year, humans have been imbibing for millennia. In the last few decades, wine, in particular, has gained a reputation for being good for our health. Red wine even has been linked with longevity and lower risk of heart disease.

Scientists have developed a new gene-editing technology that could potentially correct up to 89% of genetic defects, including those that cause diseases like sickle cell anemia.

A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly 400 parts per million currently found in the atmosphere.

There is an infamous chart in media circles. It shows newspaper advertising revenue steadily rising until about the year 2000. A few years later, it drops off a cliff. Superimposed on this chart is the exponential growth of Google and...

The blogosphere remains a valuable source of information and insight

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been secretly indicted by the Trump administration’s Justice Department, “a drastic escalation” of the feds’ efforts against him, the New York Times reported. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced Wikileaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and labeled Assange a “fraud,” “coward,” and “enemy.” But rather than a federal indictment, Assange deserves a tweaked version of one of Washington’s hottest honorifics.

Mark Zuckerberg hopes that one day, in the not too distant future, billions of people will use a cryptocurrency created by Facebook to send money to friends and family around the world. Mr. Zuckerberg also recognizes that his company is a major impediment to that vision.

Netflix announced this week that they have fallen short of their 7m subscriber target in Q3. Netflix faces …

Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into "smart spies."

Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, lock down who can see what you're up to.

Before the iPhone 11 series went on the market, many netizens were not optimistic about its sales. After all, the upgrade was not big, and the three shots after the Yuba were slightly ugly. Even many supply chain people are not optimistic about the sales of the iPhone 11, because it does not support 5G networks.

Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending.

Cloudflare is frustrated with the continued criticism from entertainment industry groups, which accuse the company of assisting pirate sites. In a letter to the U.S. Government, the CDN provider once again rebuts these claims, stressing that it's not obliged to shut down potentially infringing websites.

Our lives and habits are being tracked. Every time we tap in a Google search, every time we click “Like” on Facebook and every time we make an Amazon purchase, we are giving away information about ourselves: our thoughts, our preferences, our behaviors.

The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.

The 20-year-old with the 'Superbad'-inspired identification is facing numerous alcohol-related charges.

China has been unveiling a lot of new weaponry lately, but one of their latest reveals looks really, well, out of this world.

Cool policies. You ever going to enforce them?

Yes, the sudo command has a security bug. But, in the real world, it's hard to see how it could be used against you.

Except... it turns out that the latter part of Warren's "fake news ad" -- the part which she presents as truthful -- is actually false as well.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefly poked his head out of his gilded panic room on Monday to address reports that he ran a quiet lobbying campaign to reassure right-wing critics of his company that he shares their concerns. In his view, he’s guilty of nothing more than “hearing from a range of viewpoints” and “learning.”

Once you do some simple math, you learn that it's completely doable to read 200 books in a year.

Scientists develop fully autonomous robots that could end the need for workers to scale dangerously-tall wind turbines.

Elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail.

All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor. You can’t see it happening, and may have heard nothing about it. It’s being planned by engineers and coders behind closed doors, in secure government locations far from public view.

Facebook Inc's ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency...

A new report from The Guardian outlines Google's "substantial contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis." The full list of groups that receive substantial contributions from Google is available on their website.