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Five GOP senators are trying to create a new rating for television shows that feature LGBTQ+ characters and topics. The group outlined their reasoning in a letter to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board. For a par...

Hubble studied a tough star that survived its companion going supernova. The data collected could help astronomers learn about how stars evolve and die.

In a win for net neturality, ISPs agreed to end their legal challenge to a 2018 Californa law that bars providers from throttling service. Telecom groups and California Attorney General Rob Bonta today jointly agreed to ...

Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft orbited and studied a comet hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, collecting data on the space rock's structure and geology. Now, the ESA is askin...

Whisteblowers are accusing Facebook of purposely blocking government, healthcare and emergency services pages in Australia in order to thwart a potential law that would require platforms to pay for news, according to WSJ...

Horror fans all know the trope: when tragedy strikes, evil spirits try to prey on the survivors left behind. (Bonus points if there's a child involved.) The Twin--the English-language debut of Finnish writer-director Tan...

In yet another indication that the U.S. is over the covid-19 pandemic--although health officials state it is by no means over yet--Lyft announced on Thursday that it was bringing back carpooling to five cities this month...

The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up for environmental justice efforts. Attorney General Merrick Garland just announced a new office of the department that will exclusively focus on the human impacts of pollutio...

There's no reason to stick with the default apps on your Android phone when there very well be many that better suit you. Here's how to optimize.

Cryptocurrency mixers are sometimes used to help online criminals launder their stolen money by hiding its true origins, and the US Treasury is now ready to clamp down on them when hostile governments are involved. The d...

Certain Apple products appear to have estimated shipping times that are far longer than they've been in the past. User-configured models seem to be the focus.

The biggest airplane ever built just flew over the Mojave desert for its fifth test flight, inching closer to fulfilling its role of carrying and releasing hypersonic vehicles.

It's been 11 months since Microsoft confirmed it's making a dedicated game-streaming device and a smart TV app for the Xbox ecosystem. The company hasn't announced many more details about either since then, but a new rep...

The Porsche 959 is not seen on the streets in the United States for quite some time -- and the reason why is both interesting and quite surprising.

While Amazon's Alexa is considered the high water mark for digital assistants, the company's smartphone predecessor could have caused a ton of damage.

Amazon fired a number of senior managers from its JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island on Thursday, only a month after workers voted to unionize. The New York Times reported that the company axed more than half a dozen senior...

A glass recycling and shoreline restoration project in New Orleans was inspired by a bottle of wine. Cofounders Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz met as students at Tulane University. One night, over drinks, they lament...

Gucci announces the adoption of cryptocurrency -- such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and a few shockers, like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu -- for use in stores.

Everyone has old cell phones sitting in their cabinet. Fortunately, there actually are a number of quite useful purposes for them.

If you've recently unwrapped a brand new Windows 11 computer or perhaps built one yourself, then you're going to have to go through the setup process for Microsoft's newest operating system--and while Cortana may have be...

Facebook feature Nearby Friends will shutter its service doors soon. Now is as good a time as any to take a look at your privacy settings in the Facebook app.

As I walked home from a (more or less) midnight unlock showing of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, I turned the last corner to get to my house, and I saw a flashing light. A group of them. There, on the corn...