Paper towels are the go-to for cleaning almost anything—from greasy messes that’d destroy your favorite dish rags to covering food in the microwave for splatter prevention. However, they’re not always ...

Microsoft is investigating several issues causing email synchronization and connection problems when using the classic Outlook desktop client. The first bug causes "Can't connect to the server" errors ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Credit cards aren't just more valuable than debit cards, with the ability to rack up cash back and travel rewards. They're also, in most cases, a lot safer. That's because unlike most debit cards, ...

Using hot water to cool supercomputers? Nvidia and others are doing it. It’s liquid cooling minus the water chillers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced early this year that the new Vera Rubin ...

The Mamdani administration is putting the questions on November's general election ballot about speeding up affordable housing to work, a stark contrast to the mayor's infamous reluctance to endorse ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reflected on his decades in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse during a podcast appearance, admitting that he used to snort cocaine off ...

On Wednesday, a fossil-fuel lobbying group called the Washington Coal Club awarded President Trump a trophy that named him the “Undisputed Champion of Clean, Beautiful Coal.” Trump took advantage of ...

In the first of BIRN’s series about war-displaced people’s enduring connections to their home countries, Nik Shala explains how his computer skills, honed as a teenage refugee in Finland, are now ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have adopted a rather confusing posture on their highly controversial immigration raids. On the one hand, they seem to recognize that ICE’s actions are a ...

Food packaging often ends up in the trash even when parts of it can be reused. There are ways to reduce that waste that only ends up overfilling landfills and creating pollution. For example, a TikTok ...