It's getting harder to join the 1% in America. You'd need to make at least $515,371 a year to be in the top 1% of taxpayers in 2017, the most recent year for which data is currently available, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by ...

Blizzard has cancelled a launch event for Overwatch on the Nintendo Switch, just seven days after it first announced the celebration. The free event was scheduled to take place tomorrow on October 16 at New York's Nintendo Store. The first 150 f ...

After a decade of searching, the UC San Francisco scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” – lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested – have disc ...

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are rejoining for a follow-up to iconic Battle Series Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Apple has confirmed. The new Film will be called Masters of the Air, and we will see the dynamic duo team up once again as executiv ...

New research highlights the fact that sex isn't necessarily good just because it resulted in an orgasm.

Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.

Amazon doesn't just want to bring its virtual assistant, Alexa, to your home. Now, it's aiming to have Alexa come with you everywhere, by putting it on your face, in your ears, and even on your finger. At a major media event on Wednesday, A ...

An electric patch makes hairless mice grow fur and may reverse balding in men when fitted inside a specially designed baseball cap. At the moment, men who don’t want to go bald can treat hair loss using minoxidil lotion, finasteride pills or hair tra ...

President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the admi ...

Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.

The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted a G7 summit that ended on Monday - said $22m (£18m) would be released. But ...

Asia’s discount retailers are aping Japanese or Korean culture, but it turns out most of their products – and their operations – are from China. But is this necessarily a bad thing, when customers can’t get enough?

We’ve all heard about the benefits of plant-based meat alternatives: reduced cholesterol, less impact on the land, animal-friendly, etc. But in terms of its reportedly environmentally friendly practices, how exactly does it measure up to traditional ...

Companies are increasingly insisting their ads do not appear near articles or videos that contain any of a long list of words. The blacklists are becoming more sophisticated, specific and extensive. Publishers worry about the revenue hit.

As a growing number of organisations seek to become major players in today’s data-driven economy, the data centre remains one of the most important pieces of business infrastructure. However, as the ice caps continue to melt at an alarming rate, is i ...

Globalisation has led to the rise of fast fashion but at what cost to the workers in developing nations?

Researchers pledge to continue using primates in search for transplant organs

Intel yesterday announced its 10th-generation Ice Lake chips, likely to see their Apple debut in next year’s MacBook Pro models. Six of the new chips are of the class used in the 13-inch MacBook Pro and look set to offer dramatically improved perform ...

Federal agencies embraced the polygraph in the 1950s to reassure the public that they could unmask spies

Unless you’re out of the loop, it’s pretty common knowledge that China holds a monumental stake in the gaming industry. They provide a substantial percentage of the user base for popular games like League of Legends and Fortnite, making them a stalwa ...