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Facebook has been busy eliminating fake accounts, lots of them, over 3 billion. The social media conglomerate says it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service between April and September as ...

Illinois has gotten one step closer to bowing out of the time-change thing. The Illinois Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that seeks to make Daylight Saving Time permanent in the state. The bill...

The Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater back in 2012 and since then has been busy studying the surface of Mars. But what about the air? Well, Curiosity has been curious about that as well and seems ...

Facebook says it has discovered a bug that causes the platform to access iPhone cameras as users scroll through the news feed. The bug was discovered Tuesday and officials at Facebook said it is sendi...

The largest milk producer here in the U.S. has announced it’s declaring bankruptcy. Dean Foods has been around for 94 years under such brands as Dairy Pure, Organic Valley and Land O’Lakes...

This is not the kind of franchise reboot we were looking for. Two people in China are being treated for a disease tied to the infamous Black Death plague of the Middle Ages. Chinese officials say two ...

Hillary Clinton doesn’t plan on joining the presidential race, but she won’t rule it out completely. Asked about her 2020 plans during a BBC interview, Clinton responded “Never, neve...

Researchers at the University of Sussex are warning of an ‘insect apocalypse’ that could have a drastic effect on the environment. A new study claims that half of the world’s insect ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg skipped out on Wednesday’s Supreme Court session due to an illness, described by Chief Justice John Roberts as a ‘stomach bug’. The 86-year-old Justice missed out...

As you plot how to successfully pull off Thanksgiving, Google Maps has data telling us when we should and shouldn’t do certain things. Tracking last year’s data, Google Maps wants to help ...