Apple has secured the top spot on Forbes' annual list of the World's Most Admired Companies, taking first place for the 16th consecutive year.

Over a hundred Ukrainian war prisoners have been allowed to return home from Russian captivity after a prisoner swap was effected between both sides of the war on Saturday. The swap was announced in a statement released by senior Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak, who confirmed that 116 Ukrainians were freed.

This is the first in a series of essays on consciousness & how it is fundamental to our understanding of reality. Make no mistake, reality is strange. Consciousness research, although in its infancy, is attempting to make sense of it. Something so fundamental can hopefully put the whole calamitous shit show into some kind of graspable order. So, consider this part 1.

A once in a generation green comet will zip past Earth tonight for the first time since the age of the Neanderthals 50,000 years ago. Comet C/2022 E3 will fling past our planet at a distance of about 26.4 million miles (42.5 million km). Stargazers will be able to tell the difference between the comet and surrounding stars as it will have a streaking trail of dust following it.

Right after 3, 2, 1, Shinichiro Watanabe couldn’t go anymore. The “Cowboy Bebop” anime creator revealed that the Netflix live-action adaptation of the noir series was “tough” to watch. Starring John Cho, the short-lived series was canceled by the streamer three weeks after its premiere in November 2021.

An AI has designed anti-microbial proteins that were then tested in real life and shown to work. The same approach could eventually be used to make new medicines. Proteins are made of chains of amino acids. The sequence of those acids determine the protein’s shape and function.

Hive, one of the most prolific hacker gangs in the world, had received about $100 million in extortion payments, according to government officials.

Google says it shut down more than 50,000 accounts promoting pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) disinformation in 2022 that focused on Taiwan, COVID-19 and U.S. politics. The takedowns are the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between Google and a campaign it has named “Dragonbridge.”

The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.

Seven years ago the mobile game "Pokemon Go" took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same "real-world" appeal into their new basketball game. While players of "Pokemon Go" were guided by their mobile phones to real-world locations to collect magical creatures, "NBA All-World" allows players to challenge each other to games in the street.

Employees have rallied to find out who's been laid off while demanding answers from leadership.

Robert Pattinson was discussing the pressure male actors face in Hollywood to uphold particular beauty standards when he told the ES Magazine that he once ate only boiled potatoes for two weeks as part of a weight loss detox.

A Tesla buyer who has yet to receive his car said the company reduced the cost of his order by about $12,000 after he complained about missing out on big price cuts. The man, who asked to not be named for privacy concerns but whose identity is known to Insider, ordered his Tesla Model Y last July for $72,440.

Researchers say they have determined a way to make agrivoltaics — the process of growing crops underneath solar panels — more efficient. They found that red wavelengths are more efficient for growing plants, while the blue part of the spectrum is better for producing solar energy. Solar panels that only allow red wavelengths of light to pass through could enable farmers to grow food more productively while generating power at the same time.

NASA selected a nuclear propulsion concept for Phase I development as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program for 2023. The Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP/NEP) concept is a new class of bimodal nuclear propulsion system that uses a "wave rotor topping cycle," as per a NASA blog post.

Once a Ranger, always a Ranger. Three decades after becoming an afternoon phenomenon, members of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers cast are reuniting for a scripted Netflix special celebrating the enduring legacy of Haim Saban's creation. "Our Ranger family runs deep," Walter Emanuel Jones tells EW of getting to play Zack, the Black Ranger, 30 years later.

Google will shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK on Thursday, as it issues refunds to gamers. Stadia was touted as a "Netflix for games" when it launched, in November 2019, allowing players to stream games online without a PC or console. The service will be inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January in the UK, with gamers telling BBC News they are "heartbroken" to see it go.

Chucky will keep killing it after the series was renewed for a third season. The series, which is based on the classic film franchise, returns to both USA Network and Syfy for its third run.

With the sudden arrival of ChatGPT, educators and editors are facing a worrying surge of automated content submissions. We look at the problem and what might be done.

The Last of Us launched in 2013 on PS3 as a prestige narrative experience. The game was developed by Naughty Dog, a studio that had been crucial in setting the standard for story-centric games that emulated a traditional Hollywood format. Its Uncharted games mimicked the spectacle of adventure films by way of Nathan Drake, an Indiana Jones type with the luck of John McClane. But The Last of Us saw the studio pivot from blockbuster action into a genre that dominated the early 2000s — the dystop...

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Only a dozen copies of the book were sold in one store at midnight despite staff expecting queues at the door.

The past few years have led to record wildfires across the U.S. Decades of suppressing fires has led to overgrown forests, and a warming climate has increased their intensity and frequency. Christopher Booker reports from California on community-led efforts to preemptively set controlled fires, reducing the risk from large out-of-control fires while also restoring the ecological health of the forest.