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Pierre Deny -- who played fashion boss Louis de Léon in "Emily in Paris" -- died Monday after complications from ALS.

Five villagers stuck in a flooded cave in central Laos for more than a week were found alive, rescuers said Wednesday, but two others are missing.

More than 220 people have died and there's no sign the spread is slowing.

GENEVA — The number of cases of Hantavirus linked to a cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak has increased to 13, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.“Spain reported a new case among the passengers who are in quarantine, which bring…

HONOLULU — The defense attorney for a tourist from Washington state accused of hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal says his client was trying to protect sea turtles and has since been physically assaulted, threatened and doxed

For the first time, a blood test has been added to the list of the American Cancer Society’s recommended screenings for colorectal cancer.

Luca di Montezemolo shared his brutal opinion about Ferrari's first electric car, calling Luce a type of car that Chinese automakers won't copy.

Besides the new mobile app fully rolling out today, Google Health is joining the Google AI Pro subscription.

Agentic AI is driving the next wave of growth for tech.

The bloc’s executive is pushing back on U.S. ownership of a critical space asset.

It's an attempt to turn the massive buildout of AI infrastructure into a proving ground for new technologies.

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Kyle McDonald's jet tracker exposes wealth inequality by monitoring private jets, and questions who has access to critical information.

Agreement with union ends wrangling over how to share spoils of boom at memory-chip maker

Chinese territory enjoys surge of investment from mainland as wealthy spread assets across different jurisdictions

Taiwan prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at least one shipment of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China after first exporting them to Japan, people familiar with the matter said.

The gains are viewed as part of a broader rotation away from expensive AI software names and toward companies supplying the hardware backbone of the...

Nvidia's CEO said on Wednesday the chip company plans to invest around $150 ‌billion a year in Taiwan, terming it the "epicentre" ‌of the AI revolution and...

A person familiar with the matter says Canada has reached a deal to export liquefied natural gas to Germany from a planned Pacific Coast terminal. The official confirmed Canada will sign the agreement with Germany’s SEFE, which stands for Securing Energy for …

Volvo, which is majority owned by China's Geely Holdings, said it can now move forward with its expansion plans for its U.S.

After years of waiting, Dragon Quest 12 has finally resurfaced. Square Enix shared an update in celebration of the series’ 40th anniversary today. Dragon Quest 12 was revealed five years ago today.

Mina the Hollower looks like a nostalgic throwback, and it undeniably is, but its thoughtful design and larger sensibilities make it play and feel like a contemporary video game – one that has taken the right lessons from the medium’s history.

Square Enix has announced Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC (Steam, Microsoft Store). A release date was not announced.

More details about Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition has apparently come to light via the latest leak. In the newest update, we’re hearing about how the game will be improved from a technical standpoint on Nintendo Switch 2. billbil-kun previously claimed t…

It's finally almost time for the conclusion of Street Fighter 6 Season 3, and they're looking to go out with a real bang.Capcom just revealed the server maintenance times for Street Fighter 6's incoming update that ...

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

Windows 11 update KB5089573 is now generally available as Microsoft's non-security preview update for May, and is packing genuinely notable performance improvements.

This week, Epic Games published a concept-art image showing what appeared to be a Porsche vehicle dropping into Fortnite. However, it was quickly removed after players theorized it had been made with the use of generative AI. And while Epic has since offered …

Apple launched a new Digital ID feature in the Wallet app last fall, and now it can officially be used for age verification purposes.

PlayStation has unexpectedly pulled the plug on Destruction AllStars, a live-service game released during the PS5's launch window.

The Pokémon GO June 2026 events schedule is here! In June, featured Pokémon are Kartana, Celesteela and Necrozma. A variety of different Pokémon will be featured throughout the month, and there is a whole host of in-game events to look forward to!

“It’s certainly not made in the USA," CNET managing editor Patrick Holland said.

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two...

The Dose: May 27…

Rotavirus can cause severe watery diarrhea and vomiting, especially among small children between the ages of 3 months to 3 years.

The American Cancer Society is adding some new testing options to its screening guideline for colorectal cancers – and for the first time, that includes a blood test.

Proponents say the drug can help with sleep and pain, but there’s little research surrounding potential long-term effects of daily use.

Although rare diseases like Ebola are concerning, experts say that most public health preparation for the World Cup has been focused on familiar issues – but ramped up to match the scale of the event.

Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are treated. By combining vitamin K with component…

Pacific Crest Trail hikers have reported gastrointestinal illness in California, but county health officials have not publicly confirmed a broader outbreak

The research on nutrition and brain health is more nuanced than most headlines suggest, and these 20 foods have the strongest evidence behind them

Elsevier has retracted a 2021 study claiming sudden infant death syndrome is linked to vaccines over concerns the paper might influence patient care. The single-author study, by longtim…

A dietitian reveals what happens when you take vitamin D every day. Learn how daily supplements support bone and immune health if you have a deficiency.

A small clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers has put a Salk Institute idea to the test in patients: that activating the vitamin D receptor can help reshape the protective environment surrounding pancreatic tumors in ways that could m…

As the rate of GLP-1 prescriptions in the U.S. has risen, the obesity rate has dropped.

Millions of people suffer from cartilage loss and arthritis. This could be a breakthrough to relieve a lot of pain and suffering.

While humans are acquiring new skills that entail performing coordinated movements, such as walking, playing an instrument or skateboarding, their brains are known to continuously detect mistakes and correct movements over time. This gradual acquisition of ta…

If we continue as we have been, the prospect of our children living shorter, less healthy lives than we do is a real possibility.

A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port. In a written statement Tuesday, Oceanwide Expeditions says the extra work is being carried out on the advice of the GGD local health…

Patrick LaRochelle remains asymptomatic and in isolation in Prague as the number of suspected Ebola cases reaches 1,000

Stevee Williams, a restaurant manager in Houston, was preparing for her sister’s wedding when anxieties bubbled up about how she would look in her bridesmaid...

"The importance of preserving strength, physical function and lean mass generally increases with age," says Cedric X.

A sweeping new review of decades of research has reached the kind of conclusion your pancreas could probably have offered for free: alcohol contributes to a startling range of diseases,…

"Many disorders that increase dementia risk also disrupt the brain's sleep rhythms. Our work suggests these may not be separate phenomena."

At age 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik's multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry her grandchildren.

Dermatologists share 10 common causes of itchy skin, from dehydration and allergic reactions to pregnancy, nerve issues, and when to call a doctor.

In 1988, a forest pathologist named Greg Whipple, working for the United States Forest Service in eastern Oregon, was investigating a pattern of tree deaths in the Malheur National Forest. The trees were grand firs, ponderosa pines, and other conifers the For…

"We might have detected one of the various small systems that contributed to form our Milky Way."

With the Apollo Guidance Computer shut down to save battery power for reentry, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the lunar terminator in a window crosshair and timing engine burns with an Omega Speedmaster wristwatch.

In July 1979, after debris from the re-entering American space station Skylab came down across a stretch of Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance issued NASA a 400-dollar ticket for littering. The detail that the popular version tends to drop, and the one…

Galileo, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, and on 11 April 1991 its large high-gain antenna failed to open as commanded. The mission was not abandoned. Over the following years a workaround was built, centred on new software both on the sp…

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct evidence of auroras on Neptune, according to findings published in Nature Astronomy, with lead author Henrik Melin of Northumbria University. The observations were made using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph…

In 1964 and 1965, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories spent roughly a year trying to track down a faint, persistent noise in their antenna. They checked the electronics, they considered the sky, and at one point they cleaned out a pair of nes…

Nature - Bottom-Up Synthesis of Molecular Nanodiamond from Nanographene

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story.

A health scare prompted the first ever early return from the International Space Station for a medical reason. Does it change the plan for deep space missions?

Researchers from the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research are celebrating the publication of a vast new treasure trove of gravitational wave detections, hailed as a milestone marking the coming of age of gravitational astronomy.

A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic field.

Earth’s largest volcanic system, hidden in mountain chains under the sea, has long been assumed to erupt only quietly. The shallow seafloor off Iceland tells another story.

A crop of new startups has raised billions to see if AI can upend how scientific research is conducted.

At 01:16 Paris time on 25 June 1998, during routine maintenance operations, controllers lost contact with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, known as SOHO, a joint spacecraft of the European Space Agency and NASA built to study the Sun.

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and forces of the universe. By studying incredibly rare particle tra…