The American Civil Liberties Union plans to fight newly revealed practices by the Department of Homeland Security which used commercially available cell phone location data to track suspected illegal
Recently, snowfall in north China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region attracted much attention. On the Chinese social media platform Weibo, people who have been staying at home for weeks to prevent get
As Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad pushes further into the last rebel stronghold, his armed forces, backed by Russia and Iran, are sending hundreds of thousands fleein
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) is recommending that Boeing’s software testing processes undergo a review, following the discovery of another problem with the on-board system
Listen, this week sucks. Last week pretty much sucked, too. Honestly, it’s probably time to just scrap this stupid jerk of a year and give 2021 a go. (Spoiler: that one will suck, too). But you take y
As the national conversation pushes companies to reexamine the HR processes suppressing sexual harassment and bias reporting, tech startups are looking to find a way to smooth out the process and enco
Instagram will now show you who you interact with least frequently in case you want to unfollow them. In an effort to help you keep your feed clean and relevant, today Instagram is launching ‘fo
The electronic dance song titled 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe' has been listened to more than 2.6 million times.
A legal fight by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo against a Nevada woman who wants more than the 375,000 U.S. dollars she received in a rape case hush-money settlement in 2010 should be decided by an
As Twitter continues to try to find the right balance between making its platform easier to use while also less prone to toxicity and abuse, the social media company reported mixed earnings for Q4. Tw
Using high resolution mass spectrometry, the new technology can figure out who has been taking cocaine.
Wang Chen, dean of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. /CCTV screenshot There are still a lot of patients infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) in Wuhan who have not yet been ho
French startup BlaBlaCar is sharing some metrics today. In 2019, the company’s revenue grew by 71% compared to 2018. The big difference between 2019 and 2018 is that BlaBlaCar diversified its activity
Founders – it’s time to shoot for the stars. For the first time ever, TechCrunch is hosting a brand new event TC Sessions: Space on June 25th in Los Angeles. But that’s not all, because on June 24th T
Deliverr doesn’t own a warehouse or a delivery truck, but the startup is helping e-commerce companies not named Amazon achieve Amazon-like two-day shipping. The startup does it with intelligent
More evidence is needed to confirm whether other routes of novel coronavirus transmission exist other than the respiratory droplets and contact transmission, Chinese m
Under the new measures, users who retweet or like doctored and manipulated content will be shown a warning before doing so.