China has enough coal-fired power plants in the pipeline to match the entire capacity of the European Union, driving the expansion in global coal power and confounding the movement against the polluting fossil fuel, according to a report.

Suspended animation could save lives Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. Samuel Tisherman, at the University…

After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens.

At the College Street market in Kolkata, India, independent booksellers fear the arrival of a massive mall.

The beleaguered office-sharing start-up is laying off employees in an attempt to right-size the business.

Recently, my colleague introduced me to QMK 1, an open-source keyboard firmware. Like many non-trivia C projects, macro is heavily used everywhere, especially in keymap files 2. It didn’t bother me much since I have been programming C for many years. But…

City dwellers tend to live longer if they are in leafy neighbourhoods, according to a study that links green areas to lower rates of premature death

The troubled office space company is slashing its total work force as it sells businesses and outsources some jobs.

A VR Return to Half-Life. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.

The meeting took place during Zuckerberg’s most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra.

Plaid envisions a fully inclusive fintech ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live. Throughout 2019, we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress towards achieving this goal. We strengthened our institution coverage in Canada, made…

Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear.

Some of us—not naming names here—really appreciated Marie Kondo’s take on clutter. Maybe we didn’t thank our sweaters for their service before donating them to Goodwill—and we’re still finding that folding method a bit tricky—but we found her bestselling…

By Emma Young. People who opine on issues in order to impress others are more likely to get into conflicts.

Fastmail, now 20 years old, keeps evolving to make your life easier.