Thousands of people got a surprise present on Christmas Day this year when a bank accidentally deposited £130 million across 75,000 transactions.

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With the successful extension of Webb’s second sunshield mid-boom, the observatory has passed another critical deployment milestone. Webb’s sunshield now resembles its full, kite-shaped form in space. Engineers began to deploy the second (starboard) mid-boom…

It may seem like electric and electrified cars are everywhere, but in the grand scheme of things we're only just getting started.

I'm no longer using Windows as the OS on my primary PC. In fact, it's no longer installed on a secondary drive. Here's why you may want to consider making the switch.

This was one of Webb's most nerve-wracking post-launch steps.

There’s been a lot of hubbub surrounding Don’t Look Up, a recent Netflix movie about a planet-killing comet heading towards Earth, but 2022 is a great year to actually look up, beginning with a meteor shower on the night of Jan. 2–3.

NASA engineer Dr. Harold G 'Sonny' White reported the accidental discovery of a real-world "warp bubble" whilst he was conducting research into custom Casimir cavities.

Police in Malaysia have shut down a bitcoin mining operation and seized 1,720 bitcoin mining machines in a major electricity theft crackdown following public complaints. "Police inspected 75 premises around the district and 30 of them were found to be carrying…

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to culture human stem cells more sooner than was previously possible.

Breaking up is hard to do—harder yet when there’s a deactivation period. Here’s how to log off every big social site, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Truth Social.

Apple's voice assistant, Siri, was stumped when a TikTok user asked it for the time in Palestine.

TikToker Erika Torres received a notification on her iPhone saying that an "unknown accessory" was "detected" near her phone.

As digital calendars around the world changed to 01.01.2022, Microsoft customers found their Exchange servers stopped processing emails.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A school district in northwestern New Mexico is providing high-speed internet to students' families, most of whom are Indigenous, in a $1.2 million deal that leapfrogs piecemeal efforts by state and tribal officials.

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Greene's account was suspended over "repeated violations" of Twitter's Covid-19 misinformation policy, the company said.

Russian watchdog says the website OVD-Info was blocked because it was involved in propaganda of terrorism and extremism

Twitter has permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account after repeated 'strikes' for spreading COVID-19 misinformation..

And kickstarted America’s computing industry.