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Image: Activision TiMi Studios, the Tencent-owned developer of huge mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile and the MOBA Honor of Kings, earned a staggering $10 billion in revenue in 2020, according to an April 1st Reuters repo...

Facebook has been repeatedly accused not just of anticompetitive business practices but also of strategies that violate users’ privacy in order to make a profit. In that context, it’s almost ironic that the latest dr...

Recently we reported on a haul of 2,200 new exoplanets from the 2 year primary mission of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But that is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of exoplanet hunting.  If calc...

A spectacular drone show recently brought even more light to Shanghai's already colorful skyline, creating a new world record in the process.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos anticipates additional negotiations with China at a conference in June, building upon an agreement on lunar exploration announced in February. SpaceNews

Apotex Corp has announced the voluntary recall of Guanfacine Extended-Release Tablets in 2mg strength over the possible risk of ‘trace’ contamination with an antipsychotic medication called Quetiapine Fumarate. The d...

A new study suggests that masks and a good ventilation system are more important than social distancing for reducing the airborne spread of COVID-19 in classrooms. The research comes at a critical time when schools and u...

Supreme Court 1 (Verge Stock) In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle's Java code when building Android. "Google's copying of the API to reimplement a user interfac...

Though we don't quite have the technology to make three-dimensional holograms a reality yet, companies like PORTL and Microsoft are working on it. But a third company decided to forego the traditional approach and came u...

The central core of our galaxy is not a friendly place for star formation, and yet new observations have revealed almost four dozen newly-forming systems. These results challenge our understanding of the complicated phys...

Engineers at Duke University developed an entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly designed to skim across the water’s surface and react to environmental conditions. The robot, called DraBot, is entirely electronics...

As we communicate more digitally, governments encroach more on our privacy. End-to-end encryption cannot be taken for granted.

The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our current knowledge of elementary particles and their interactions. The standard model is not complete; for example, it does not describe observations such as gravity...

Is someone else in your household hogging the big screen TV? Would you like to game in a different room without lugging your console around? If you've managed to get your hands on a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X, or an...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft moved from one docking port to another on the International Space Station April 5, marking the start of a busy month spacecraft arrivals and departures on the station. SpaceNews

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have demonstrated for the first time that animal DNA shed in the environment can be collected from the air. Researchers say the proof of concept study opens the potential ...

The majority of scientists are, I'd wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon, or kidneys, or whatever. Conduct little experiments, marginally expand the stockpile of verifiable human...

It is no exaggeration to say that the study of extrasolar planets has exploded in recent decades. To date, 4,375 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,247 systems, with another 5,856 candidates awaiting confirmation. In re...

Hacked data on over 553 million Facebook users was leaked online over the weekend, including names, birthdates, a Facebook user's relationship status, the city where they live, their workplace, and sometimes even email a...

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times' Kara Swisher, on her podcast "Sway," Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about Apple's feud with Facebook, its stance on privacy, Apple's legal battle with Epic Games, and possib...

Apple will continue to equip more of its Macs with variations of the Apple M custom processor launched last November. The M1 powers the late 2020 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, with Apple planning to transition all ...

Patterns and anomalies in big data can help businesses target likely customers, reveal fraud or even predict drug interactions. Unfortunately, these patterns are often not easily observable. To extract the needles of use...