The chief executive of social media platform Parler, popular with American right-wing users but which virtually vanished after the U.S. Capitol riot, posted a brief message on the company's website. Parler's app, however, remains offline.

European study led by the Max Planck Institute uses AI as a mental health tool.

There was a distinctly Christian nationalist presence at the U.S. Capitol riot. Some leaders are trying to publicly reject it -- but others are staying silent.

According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, ownership of the patents was transferred to Huawei on December 23rd.

A Twitter campaign has been raising concerns over the fate of a Turkey-based Syrian YouTuber, who posted a 30-second video saying she will have to stop posting videos on the platform, without providing any more details before silently sending the digital call for help.

The idea of Japan introducing a universal basic income, recently floated by one of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s economic advisers, has caught the eye at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is stirring worries about job security and social inequality.

John Matze and Jack Dorsey, the CEOs of Parler and Twitter were at at odds with each other, and posted on their own sites about Apple's ban of Parler.

Roku says its Roku TV line was the top-selling smart TV OS in the US and Canada throughout all of 2020, using NPD data to illustrate the company’s powerful standing. “Roku TV held 38 percent of market share in the US and 31 percent in Canada, based on available data from January 5th through December 26th, 2020, maintaining the lead spot in both regions,” the company said in a press release today.

As Trump-supporters stormed the US Capitol, VC Twitter buzzed with investors calling on each other to stop doing deals with Jared Kushner.

Hundreds of students are feared missing after gunmen raided a secondary school in north-western Nigeria. The attackers arrived on motorbikes and started shooting into the air, causing people to flee, witnesses said. They targeted the Government Science Secondary School - where more than 800 students are said to reside - in Katsina state on Friday evening.

Ben Bova was a hard-science guy — and a passionate space program booster — and his visions of the future encompassed a dizzying array of technological advances (and resulting horrors or delights), including cloning, sex in space, climate change, the nuclear arms race, Martian colonies and the search for extraterrestrials. In newspaper articles, short stories and more than 100 books, he explored these and other knotty human problems.

When Christians mindlessly harrumph about the supposed “war on Christmas” in swiftly secularizing American society, their understanding of U.S. history seems a bit thin.

We will see a shift in the way people play, work, learn or simply hang out in 2021. Some of this connection will move into the Metaverse, a digital place where people seamlessly get together and interact in millions of 3D virtual experiences. Early iterations of the Metaverse emerged in the 1980s with VPL Research’s DataSuit and Linden Lab’s Second Life in 2003. However, it started to feel very real in 2020 as several platforms have been envisioning – and building – their own versions of...

“This is our bear hut,” the short, vivacious woman shouted through a hand-held loudspeaker, her smile creasing her forehead with deep wrinkles. A blue hat was perched on her head and her short tunic, embroidered with pink geometric designs, was tied sharply at the waist. She pointed at a wooden structure made of round logs, raised high above the ground on stilts.

Tesla fell just shy of hitting CEO Elon Musk’s goal of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020, the company announced Saturday, having shipped a record 499,550 throughout the year — or 99.91 percent. Tesla said the final tally could vary by as much as 0.5 percent, though, so it’s possible that it will eclipse the 500,000 mark by the time it reveals the ultimate figures in its full year results, due out at the end of January.

After Robin Williams died in August 2014, aged 63, a lot of people had a lot of things to say about him. There was the predictable speculation about why a hugely beloved and seemingly healthy Hollywood star would end his own life, with some confidently stating that he was depressed or had succumbed to old addictions.

A significant number of Americans believe misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus and the recent presidential election, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. Forty percent of respondents said they believe the coronavirus was made in a lab in China even though there is no evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.

Thanks to low local levels of COVID-19 infection and fully operating cinemas, the anime feature has smashed nearly every one of Japan's major box-office records, becoming an inescapable cultural phenomenon in the country.