A woman who suffered a broken leg while hiking in Tujunga was able to call 911 despite not having cell phone service due to a new and innovative feature on the iPhone 14. Juana Reyes was hiking with friends in a remote part of Trail Canyon Falls in t ...

Meta has set up a taskforce to counter child exploitation after a news report said Instagram helped promote networks of accounts trading child-sex content. The photo and video sharing app owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta allowed pedophiles to ope ...

Twitch has apologised, after a backlash over new advertising rules. The Amazon-owned livestreaming service had said it would restrict the size and type of ads used by streamers who create content on Twitch. This would have substantially reduced the w ...

Thousands were in attendance for the annual parade in Elmwood and festival at Canalside.

Retired naval officer Joseph Dituri has spent more than three months living inside a 100sqft pod in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to research the effects of pressurised environements on the human body

Wild dingo populations have less dog lineage, with a significantly greater proportion of pure dingoes than previously thought, according to new research, challenging the view that pure dingoes are on the decline due to crossbreeding. The findings, pu ...

The Church of Scotland will have to close hundreds of churches in the coming years, the Kirk's trustees have warned as it stages its annual General Assembly. The gathering of Kirk leaders - including new moderator Rt Rev Sally Foster-Fulton - be ...

Between April and May, the birch pollen season is in full swing. Eyes water, throats sting, noses run: doctors call these immune reactions "allergic rhinitis." In France, nearly one adult in three is said to suffer from a pollen allergy, ac ...

Researchers have looked at nearly 27,000 studies to identify the biggest factors causing sperm damage. This is what they found. Men’s reproductive capacity has fallen drastically in recent decades - and a new analysis of thousands of studies has reve ...

When she was introduced as a Marvel villain in Guardians of the Galaxy, I didn’t think much of Nebula. The trope of the ‘evil sister’ filled to the brim with resentment had been done countless times before, and even when she had a little redemption a ...

E-commerce behemoth, in the midst of aggressively cutting costs including laying-off 27,000 workers, reported revenue growth

Tom Brady wasn't laughing during this comedy special. According to comedians Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen of the Dudesy podcast, the retired NFL star's company TB12 sent a cease and desist letter after an hour-long animated comedy special sh ...

Authorities have reportedly recovered more than 20 bodies as they continue to investigate an alleged starvation cult. Kenyan police began exhuming the remains on Friday from a site in Shakahola forest in Kilifi county, to the east of the country.

I recently wrote about an app called Shortwave and its AI summarizer feature, which turns long, bland emails into short summaries with most of the core details intact. I’ve gotten used to that convenience to such an extent that I now want a summarize ...

Although dark matter constitutes 85% of the mass of the Universe, precisely mapping its occurrence has always been more or less impossible. Indeed, this dark matter originally stems only from a disturbing margin of error in certain calculations when ...

Olaparib targets cancers with BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutations, stopping cancer cells from being able to repair their DNA, which in turn causes the cancerous cells to die.

Poor, poor, Horizon Worlds. According to Facebook-turned-Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the company's metaverse of dead-eyed avatars has been all but abandoned by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who, in an added blow, is instead said to be spending the bu ...

Be careful what you wish for: you might actually get it. In the spring of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, governments around the world, including Canada, pushed harsh measures that have rarely been used in peacetime, including lockdowns and ...

Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of his hair. The study's lead author is Tristan Begg, a final year Biological Anthropology PhD researcher from ...

Cyclists are now the single largest form of transport counted during peak times on the streets in the City of London. According to Forbes(opens in new tab), a detailed report has been filed(opens in new tab) to the transportation committee of the Cit ...