00:50 Residents in Maui were asked to evacuate their homes or shelter in place as major flooding caused a dam failure on the eastern part of the Hawaiian island. The entire state was p
A security vulnerability in a popular iPhone call recording app exposed thousands of users’ recorded conversations.The flaw was discovered by Anand Prakash, a security researcher and founder of
The impending Coinbase direct listing is a fintech debut to watch. The cryptocurrency-focused consumer trading concern is set to become a public company on the back of a strong 2020, and a particularl
Napster launched as a controversial peer-to-peer filesharing service – but is now legitimate and has floated on the stock market. /Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo One of the music industry's most i
03:18 5G is different than previous generations of mobile tech and people should give it some time to grow up, Sihan Bo Chen, greater China head of the Global System fo
A rare moonflower has bloomed in Cambridge, U.K. and is believed to be the first time the flower has ever bloomed in the country.The moonflower, whose scientific name is Selenicereus wittiiis, is
01:00 The building that was once the popular Trump Plaza Casino was demolished in Atlantic City Wednesday morning. Former President Trump opened it in 1984 but it began to decline afte
YouTube has a host of big product updates coming this year, and it just detailed a lot of them in a blog post from Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan. Google’s streaming video site plans to expand
The World Health Organization has alerted six countries to watch out for potential Ebola cases after fresh outbreaks in Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo, a spoke
The new Netflix series “Lupin” is a loose adaptation of the Arséne Lupin stories by Maurice Leblanc, but it’s set in the present day, with a hero who’s inspired by the exploits
Reddit raises more funding, Shopify expands payments to Facebook and a study suggests that the Apple Watch might be able to predict COVID diagnoses. This is your Daily Crunch for February 9, 2021.The
Four days away from the Spring Festival's Eve, the fourth joint rehearsal of the 2021 Spring Festival Gala was held in Beijing on Sunday.China Media Group's Spring Fest
You’d be forgiven for being skeptical about the iPhone 12’s stellar performance this past quarter. It’s been a rough couple of years for smartphones — a phenomenon from which not even Apple was immune
The People's Bank of China HQ in Beijing, China. /CFP China's monetary policy will stay steady in support of economic growth, Yi Gang, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), said at th
Artists from contemporary circus company Cirk La Putyka put on a performance inside a closed bar in Prague, Czech Republic, January 21, 2021. /VCG Passers-by at streets can watch the pe
Its maker says it "opens up alternative treatment options" that may allow more patients to be cared for outside of intensive care.
Virgin Orbit scored a major success on Sunday, with a test flight that not only achieved its goals of reaching space and orbit, but also of delivering payloads on board for NASA, marking its first com