Innovation

The crackdown on vaping has made its way to Apple's App Store. According to a report from Axios, Apple is removing more than 181 vaping apps and games related to vaping from its app marketplace following a governmental crackdown on vapes and…

Google is becoming the latest tech company to invade the financial services industry. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company is readying an effort to launch Google checking accounts. Is the move anything more than a shameless attempt…

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent Stanford University researcher Bill…

If you needed another reason to put forth all the effort you possibly could toward reducing the effects of climate change, one may very well have just surfaced. When it comes to the health impact of the climate change, there's one particular group…

On Nov. 4, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it planned to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 196 countries adopted in 2015. The pact is designed to keep global temperatures from…

Rampaging wildfires in Australia have reached the suburbs of Sydney, prompting officials to evacuate residents and tourists in some areas. Homes within the city, located in the state of New South Wales (NSW), are in danger due to the extremely…

Everything old is new again. Just as Disney+ and Netflix are sucking cash from our wallets each month in part by appealing to '90s kids nostalgia, Motorola is hoping that you still fondly remember flipping open the Razr back when phones still had…

It's early in the morning, you've just been shaken awake by your alarm, and it's time to get ready for the day. Without thinking much about it, you probably grab your phone and navigate to your weather app of choice so you can figure out what you'll…

The first next-gen Nintendo Switch-exclusive games in the Pokémon series, Pokémon Sword and Shield, are about to debut on Friday, November 15. Critics have already spent a few weeks with the games, however, and dozens of reviews have finally hit the…

Schools and local businesses have shuttered during what has become the second worst flooding in Venice history. The exceptionally high tides, known as acqua alta in Italian, have flooded more than 85 percent of the lagoon city, taken an elderly…

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that we need to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 if we want any hope of limiting the damage done by climate change. We aren't off to a great start. A new report…

Black holes are mysterious, strange, and a little scary. As it turns out, they may very well be bullies, too. Astronomers recently noticed a star careening through the Milky Way at nearly 4 million mph which is a surprising 10 times faster than the…

What do you do when you hear a pained, otherworldly growl that sounds like a creature from a western fantasy game? You take out your camera and record it, of course. That's what a family in Ontario, Canada did while out hunting. In the middle of…

Ask people to think of a nuclear disaster and they'll probably come back with the name Chernobyl. The 1986 explosion of a Soviet Union reactor that resulted in the immediate death of at least 50 people has cemented itself in modern memory, but…

Hillary Clinton believes male leaders are intimidated by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. The Independent reports that the former secretary of state shared her opinion Sunday night while speaking to daughter Chelsea about their book The…

The Trump administration has made denial of science its calling card, but now it is going a step further. Under a new proposal put forth by Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published by the New York Times, policymakers won't just…

During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in line for donated meals. These images were reminders that for an estimated one out of eight Americans, food…

If you spend any modicum of your time on the internet, or even dabbling in the tech world, you've no doubt seen mentions of "AI," or artificial intelligence, here and there. In the past few years it's become something of a buzzy catchword in the…

Google holds more of your data than just about any other company, including Facebook. It knows your online browsing activity, your spending habits and a plethora of personal information about you — and now it seems Google's coming for your health…