TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making...

Meta is rolling out an Instagram subscription service for $3.99 a month, called Instagram Plus, which adds features such as "stories" that last for 48 hours, double the amount of time for nonpaying users. The new...

It may feel like the exhaustion of caring for a newborn leaves little room for romance. Now, researchers have...

Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday that Meta’s account deactivations lack due process, violations are doled out without clarity, and there’s little customer support for appeals.The board, which...

Over the past 150 years, Earth’s entire surface has been warming, except for one patch of the north Atlantic....

Online learning platform Coursera is taking a page straight out of TikTok’s playbook. The company has launched a new AI-powered feed designed to serve short-form educational content in a scrollable, personalized format, signaling a major shift in how digital...

Instagram crossed 3 billion users in 2025, and the platform looks very different from the photo-sharing app it started as. It’s now one of Meta’s most valuable advertising engines and a video-first network where Reels and carousels do the...

During the pandemic, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded a 48% spike in at-home exercise injuries. You might think that the culprit was bad equipment, but it was bad form. People had no coach around to correct it.  Researchers...

For millions of Americans, Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is a comfort show.With more than 500 episodes produced and aired over nearly two decades, it serves as a Food Network staple that runs in nine-hour blocks, with Fieri...

The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make it harder for bad actors to develop biological weapons using their technology.Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s...