What makes movies that are sad or scary so popular? For that matter, why do people enjoy roller-coasters, bungee jumping, or any of the countless other activities that seem to serve no purpose except to make people feel terrified, however briefly? Is there a positive benefit to exposing yourself to these kinds of intense negative experiences? According to recent studies, there may be.

The hours we spend scrolling through our smartphones appear to be changing our skulls. This may be the reason why some people — especially the younger crowd — are developing a weird, bony spike just above their necks.

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained DDoS attack, which was traced back to IP addresses in China. It’s widely believed this is an attempt to disrupt citizen protests in Hong Kong, which are being coordinated using Telegram’s messaging group feature. The so-called #612strike protesters are against new Chinese extradition laws, saying they threaten Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous region.

Over 2 billion people use Facebook each month, and with good reason. Facebook connects far more people than would be able to interact regularly in person or otherwise offline. Many Facebook users view this medium as a way to solicit and receive support from large numbers of people. Both in person and online, self-disclosure can be an important way of forging intimacy in relationships.

It’s not just you, it’s nearly everyone. Roughly 88% of Americans use a second device, like a phone or a tablet, while watching TV, according to the longtime internet researcher and venture capitalist Mary Meeker. She released her annual internet trends report today (June 11).

Scientists are still debating when and where dogs were domesticated, but there’s one thing most of them agree on: Early canines were working animals. Dogs evolved from gray wolves earlier than 15,000 years ago—before humans settled down in permanent villages—and they likely helped us hunt small game like deer and rabbits and pulled sleds or other transport equipment across vast plains.

A swarm of meteors heading toward Earth could have the potential to cause a catastrophic impact, a new study from Western Ontario University says. The so-called Taurid swarm is a recurring event that some scientists believe could have played a role in the biggest Earth impact of modern times, in 1908, when a space rock slammed into Siberia with enough force to destroy an entire forest.

But mixed feelings about the internet persist, according to Mary Meeker's latest annual report.

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

The Raptors defeated the Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to clinch their first championship in franchise history.

It used a Shazam-like technology to identify soccer games

A five-year-old boy and his grandmother have died after three cases of Ebola were confirmed in Uganda in a "truly frightening" phase of the spread of the virus.

At a conservative estimate, people around the world are consuming a credit card's-worth of microplastic every week, according to a new study.

In the wake of a slew of fatal accidents involving elderly drivers, the government plans to create a new driver's license system that limits senior citizen

18 minutes is all that it takes to understand Bitcoin better than most people. In 18 minutes, you will have a good understanding of how hash functions, Public Key Cryptography and Merkle Trees are brilliantly used in Bitcoin. The purpose of this post is to provide a semi-technical guide to key aspects of Bitcoin’s technology.

Rather than go to court, Alex Jones has decided to settle with Pepe creator Matt Furie for appropriating the use of his cartoon frog in InfoWars merch.

Getaway in Brooklyn was comfortably full for a Saturday night, when I came in to try my first "shrub" — an acidic beverage made from vinegar, fruit, sugar, club soda and zero alcohol.

Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subscription start-ups.

Every pay-to-stream video company is fighting a “battle royale” for your attention, and not all of them will make it. Former Amazon Studios strategist Matthew Ball says Netflix and Disney are safe bets to land on the winners list, but now as an outsider looking in, he thinks there’s a strong argument that Amazon will be up there, too.

For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.

Microsoft has had a blockbuster E3 with numerous exciting gaming announcements. One that will appeal to its long-time fan base will be the freshly baked Age of Empires II Definitive Edition that has been fully remastered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its launch. The refresh brings high-res 4K Ultra HD visuals along with remastered audio to bring it into line with Age of Empires Definitive Edition which launched in 2017.

Microsoft has quietly taken down a massive facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of roughly 100,000 people. The images were gathered from search engines and published in 2016 to a dataset called MS Celeb and used to train facial recognition systems around the world, including by military researchers and Chinese firms such as SenseTime and Megvii, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

Newspapers’ sites had until recently been among the few major English-language outlets still regularly accessible in mainland China.

Netflix is still winning the war for consumers' hearts.

Massive crowds are causing environmental degradation, dangerous conditions, and the immiseration and pricing-out of locals.

Anytime young people get together, the pics start flowing.

Researchers say Pfizer should have published Enbrel analysis. Pfizer says its decision was based on science.

A homeowner trying to plug a nest of angry wasps with a hammer and stake created the spark that started the biggest fire in state history, Cal Fire says.

If Android becomes more fragmented, Google thinks everybody loses