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ViacomCBS has named George Cheeks as president and CEO of CBS Entertainment group starting March 23.

“It might be a song, a recipe, a manifesto, maybe I could help you with your homework”—M.I.A.

On his first proper album in five years, Tom Jenkinson patches together a passel of vintage hardware to revisit the breakbeat mayhem and drill’n’bass hijinks of his early years.

On his masterful new album, Dan Bejar moves like a ghost through his familiar and inscrutable universe.

For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

A special program called The Last Mile has software engineers teach prisoners computer coding so they can be prepared to land tech jobs once they are released.

A San Francisco startup may have the solution parents have been seeking for years. Free phone service—without an expensive monthly contract.

It is relatively easy to clone parts of an image with photo editing software to remove objects and backgrounds or even to duplicate objects. A skillful digital artist will be able to do this almost seamlessly. Such artists with malicious intent can use cloning tools and to fake and forge images and detecting such distortions of the originals can be difficult even to those trained in the art themselves.

Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes in 2016 to an estimated 4 billion tonnes by 2050 as consumer-oriented urban populations grow. As population growth increases consumption and waste, managing this waste is becoming an ever greater challenge. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to develop smarter and more effective ways of managing and reducing waste.

New year. New emoji.

To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise.

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois.

Researchers at Penn State are looking at innovative ways to improve energy storage in an effort to better utilize renewable energy technologies.

Those who momentarily shuffled off this mortal coil returned with positive perceptions of what they discovered on the other side—a finding that encourages researchers to dig deeper into the ways people describe near-death experiences, according to a joint study between Western and the University of Liège (Belgium).

Hoaxes about the coronavirus are spreading as fast, if not faster, than the actual virus on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and the social media platforms are scrambling to contain the global outbreak.

The San Francisco 49ers are going to win the Super Bowl. That's what Amazon Alexa says anyway.

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, got billions richer in minutes Thursday as Amazon shares soared in extended trading on news of a killer quarter driven by strong holiday sales.

What impact will self-driving cars have on public health? The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has taken part in a study that analyzed the potential risks and benefits of autonomous vehicles for public health. The conclusions of the study, published in the Annual Review of Public Health, indicate that this new type of mobility could benefit public health if the cars are electric and the model used is based on ride sharing.

"The symptoms of this disease early are fever, and cough, and respiratory," the CDC's Nancy Messonnier said on Wednesday. It's a lot like the flu.

The coronavirus crisis has exposed cracks in Hong Kong's already overburdened healthcare system.