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A normal if windy work day went south for one Japanese bureaucrat when documents containing residents' personal information were blown away in a real-life slapstick mishap. The official in central Japan's Aichi region was using a trolley to transport a cardboard box filled with documents from...

Google has been accused of "bundling" YouTube Music, their music streaming service, to their YouTube Premium users. The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has been conducting an investigation into this matter for over a year. According to Korean media outlet KBS, the deliberation process to...

The rape conviction of movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been overturned by New York's highest court. The New York Court of Appeals, in a scathing 4-3 opinion, overturned Weinstein's conviction on sex crimes against three women, finding the trial judge "erroneously admitted testimony of...

Major internet providers once again will have to abide by a set of robust rules of the road, prohibiting them from blocking or throttling traffic, as the FCC today reinstated net neutrality regulations. The commission voted 3-2 along party lines to adopt the rules, which broadly prohibit...

(CNN) - The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than century. There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every...

OH YES, finally! No more travel credits that expire in 6 months.

This is the clearest ever image of individual atoms behaving like a wave, as predicted by quantum mechanics. Such images could eventually be used to study this exotic and poorly understood quantum behaviour. The fact that particles like atoms can behave like waves is a key insight of quantum...

There are capsule toy machines in Japan that dispense Intel CPUs. As tweeted by @LaurieWired, one user who goes by the handle Sawara-San acquired an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU after inserting 500 Yen (around $3.25) and twisting the customary knob. The 'prize' CPU did appear to have some flaws...

YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI founded Prime Hyrdation in 2022, and while their products have become increasingly popular and profitable, the company continues to face class action suits over the ingredients in their energy and sports drinks. Prime Hyrdation LLC was sued April 8 in the Southern...

Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from changing jobs within their industries. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which...

Mercedes-Benz has become the first automaker to sell vehicles with Level 3 autonomous driving technology directly to US consumers. The EQS and S-Class sedans come with a Drive Pilot feature that doesn't require users to keep their eyes on the road, unlike Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether...

A new bill, the first of its kind in the U.S., would ban security screening company Clear from operating at California airports as lawmakers take aim at companies that let consumers pay to pass through security ahead of other travelers. Sen. Josh Newman, a California Democrat and the sponsor...

It's the other way around. High Court sets precedent, Supreme Court is now pending judgement on said precedent.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its judgement in the appeal against a Madras High Court order holding that merely downloading and or watching child pornography on one's electronic device did not constitute an offence under the POCSO and the IT Act. A bench of Chief Justice of...