It’s the first time the company has confirmed reports it was in talks to acquire the video sharing platform.

Arrest warrant issued for democracy activist Samuel Chu, with four British residents also wanted for ‘incitement to secession’

According to new data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Apple spent some $7.4 million in the first half of 2020 to lobby lawmakers on issues ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to remote learning.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, Sega’s executive director of the Yakuza games, has many good things to say about Ghost of Tsushima. Ghost of Tsushima is a worldwide hit, and it has been well received in Japan. In a recent Sega livestream (via Hachima), Nagoshi wa ...

A new breakthrough could help engineers truly crack the next phase of nuclear energy.

Campaigner Greta Thunberg says she will donate the money to projects that tackle the climate crisis.

Why has the Republican response to the pandemic been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?

Starting today, Mooby’s—a once-fictitious and now real restaurant created by director Kevin Smith—is delivering its meals nationwide through digital food marketplace GoldBelly. Mooby’s was first introduced to the world as a fictional restaurant in Sm ...

More than one million people have given up smoking since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, a survey for charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) suggests. Of those who had quit in the previous four months, 41% said it was in direct response to coronavirus ...

Apple has won its appeal against a European Commission ruling that it owed Ireland €13 billion ($14.9 billion) in taxes. The European Union's second highest court ruled Wednesday that the Commission had not proven that the company had received ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system is an extremely powerful tool, but there are still a few kinks to iron out. One of the main problems is off-target edits, which can have serious consequences. Now, researchers have found a particular mutation of th ...

Thwaites glacier is losing ice at an accelerating rate, threatening catastrophic sea-level rise

British actress Julia Sawalha has claimed she is being chopped from the upcoming Chicken Run sequel because her voice now sounds “too old”. In a statement published online, Sawalha said she has been told by producers via her agent that the character ...

Apple’s first Mac with its own ARM chips will be the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. He believes that production will start in Q4 of 2020, with an A-series powered MacBook Air arriving shortly afterwards either in Q4 2020 or ...

Today, the U.S. exceeded three million COVID-19 cases and 132,000 deaths. In several states, new hotspots have rolled back plans to reopen businesses. The novel coronavirus has — and will continue — to profoundly impact the way we live and work.

Hunger, poor nutrition and obesity not only present a health burden in developing countries but carry a hidden economic penalty that costs businesses up to $850 billion a year, according to a new report published Wednesday. Researchers said malnutrit ...

YOU ARE, WE hope, already protecting your phone with a PIN, a fingerprint, or a face (or all three), but sometimes you'll want to add an extra barrier to particular apps—if you're lending your phone to a friend, say, or if your kids or part ...

Porn star Ron Jeremy has been charged with forcibly raping three women and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents dating back to 2014, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Tuesday.

As a send-off for the cartoonist, the satirical publication has prepared an all-Jaffee issue that includes his final Fold-In.

Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what scientists hailed as a "major breakthrough".