Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital, talks to CNN's Samuel Burke about concerns facing the tech industry - including sexual harassment, hate speech and gender equality.

Snoop Dogg is the latest recipient of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, as Variety reports. The rapper, actor, and television personality will be honored in a ceremony on November 19, with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to present him with the honor during a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Snoop will be included in the recording category. Earlier this year, Snoop Dogg announced his first-ever cookbook, From Crook to Cook. In June, he linked up with Gorillaz for a new song called “Hollywood.”

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The debate over the effects of artificial intelligence has been dominated by two themes. One is the fear of a singularity, an event in which an AI exceeds human intelligence and escapes human control, with possibly disastrous consequences. The other is the worry that a new industrial revolution will allow machines to disrupt and replace humans in every—or almost every—area of society, from transport to the military to healthcare.

Scientists know a lot about Mars, at least when it comes to what it looks like. Sound, on the other hand, is a lot more challenging, and it’s not like we have high-powered microphones listening to the wind sweep across the Martian plains. Now, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter have created an interesting piece of music that wasn’t just inspired by Mars, but was actually composed by a computer algorithm using a Mars sunrise as data.

So a screenwriter, a photographer, the district attorney of Clinton County, N.Y., and Ben Stiller drop by a small-town street corner together to see a manhole. It sounds like the setup of a joke — and that was a problem. “I got that,” Stiller said recently. “‘Ben Stiller is going to come up and make a comedy about this and make fun of us.’”

The first Food and Drug Administration-approved drug containing an ingredient derived from the marijuana plant went on sale Thursday in the United States.

Governments are reining in liberty for the eighth consecutive year, Freedom House reports

UK scientists demonstrate the practicality of identifying and counting whales from orbit.

Among other rate hikes, Spectrum customers will see the monthly fee for set-top boxes rise in November to $7.50 from $6.99.

Communication skills benefit from the great outdoors

Hubble's maintenance team was sent into a frenzy after one of their gears malfunctioned — but they fixed it in the simplest way.

Long before veggie burgers and soy lattes were fashionable, Kin was sent on a mission by the United States government to uncover the benefits of the soybean for Americans. In 1917 Yamei Kin, a Chinese-born doctor then living in New York, visited her homeland to study a crop that was virtually unknown to Americans: the soybean.

Teens are abandoning Facebook at a staggering rate, but they're still flocking to sister app Instagram, according to a new survey by Piper Jaffray. Just over a third of teenagers report using the core Facebook platform at least once a month. That's down significantly from 52 percent of teens two years ago and from close to two-thirds of teens in Spring 2016.

Fortnite Battle Royale is everywhere! The video game has become so popular that almost everyone knows about it. From moms to teachers to businessmen, so many people have heard about this popular game. This includes Elon Musk, who has recently trolled Fortnite Battle Royale players.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, went on the record for the first time to deny allegations that his company was the victim of a hardware-based attack carried out by the Chinese government. And, in an unprecedented move for the company, he called for a retraction of the story that made this claim.