by Ashley Cullins

False claims about voting and election security are flourishing on Facebook, despite the platform's pledge to curb such content.

As real artificial intelligence technology advances toward Hollywood’s imagined versions, the question of moral standing grows more important.

One of the worst things humanity can do to the planet is to move around on it.

In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.

The accession of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court will cement a conservative majority that is likely to give polluting industries freer rein, limit the ability of citizens to sue, and call into question the very basis of the EPA to issue and enforce regulations.

The survey found that the average American now spends 3 months per year on their phone, or about 4-6 hours per day, or 6-8 hours for teens.

Capsaicin is the compound responsible for determining just how hot a variety of chili pepper will be; the higher the capsaicin levels, the hotter the pepper. There are several methods for quantifying just how much capsaicin is present in a pepper—its "pungency"—but they are either too time-consuming, too costly, or require special instruments, making them less than ideal for widespread use.

Contaminated water that could soon be released into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contains radioactive carbon with the potential to damage human DNA, environmental rights organization Greenpeace has warned.

There are plenty of reasons to declutter your online traces. Here's how to tidy up.

Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees, officials said.

Fusion power is the technology that is thirty years away, and always will be – according to skeptics at least.  Despite its difficult transition into a reliable power source, the nuclear reactions that power the sun have a wide variety of uses in other fields.  The most obvious is in weapons, where hydrogen bombs are … Continue reading "Impatient? A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive"

Earlier this week, Tesla sent out its “full self-driving” software to a small group of owners who will test it on public roads.

At least people will see what kind of car you're driving... into a ditch.

President Trump on Thursday posted his full interview with "60 Minutes" ahead of its scheduled air time in an apparent attempt to undercut the news program after he walked out on the interview, bristling at questioning from jo

The big lesson of 2020 is that everything keeps getting more dishonest.

It's been requested for years and in the making for months, and now the day has finally come: The Nightly version of Firefox for Android supports

Quibi struggled to meet its subscriber goals, and only had about 500,000 as of a few weeks ago.

An advanced artificial intelligence was able to post to Reddit and interact with other users for more than a week before anyone realised it was a bot. The AI posed as a human user under the username ‘thegentlemetre’, posting to Q&A forums AskReddit and AskScience on subjects ranging from suicide to “hot milfs”. Some of the posts received hundreds of upvotes, including one about homeless people living in elevator shafts.

Campaigners say sale of drugs should be nationalised to undermine organised crime

PayPal has partnered with cryptocurrency company Paxos to launch a new service. PayPal users in the U.S. will soon be able to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies. More countries are coming soon. PayPal plans to support Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin at first.

According to President Trump speaking at a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, “nobody gets hacked.” You don’t need someone who covers security day in and day out to call bullshit on this one. “Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password,” Trump said, referencing the recent suspension of...

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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders are searching for direction, with the market more-or-less treading water since the summer. The bitcoin price, hovering around $11,400 per bitcoin, has been trading broadly in line with equity markets in recent months—with groundbreaking announcements, including payments company Square SQ +0.7% buying bitcoin, failing to much move the market.

Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year.

Provide files, templates and resources for your website or blog visitors to download. Monitor them, count them, password protect them and more. Easy guide.

America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, but they also tend to undo settled expectations and create chaos. The real question is not whether there will be major technological changes, but whether societies can learn to better handle the disruptions that follow.

Rhonda Fleming was known for her red hair and green eyes, earning her the title of "Queen of Technicolor."

During last week’s Apple’s iPhone 12 event, the Cupertino-based company was proud to tout its environmental initiatives. Its offices, data centers and stores currently run on 100% renewable energy and the company is aiming for net zero “climate impact” by 2030.

The SpaceX founder will update his grand vision at the Mars Society virtual convention.