Each year, thousands of people worldwide use Jan. 1 as a reason to go sober through Dry January, or Drynuary, after the revelry of the holiday season passes. The idea […]

As you may remember, the largest known prime number, M82589933 (or 282,589,933-1), was discovered earlier this month. At over 24.8 million digits, it’s a long-ish number, but of course this […]

If you bought into the Dow index of blue-chip US stocks at the start of 2018, you were sitting pretty nine months later, with a gain of around 8%. Then […]

Another year’s end, another failure to send a holiday card recapping your year and wishing your friends health and happiness in the next. But fear not! No one really sends […]

Angela Merkel has big plans for Germany in the new year. In her year-end address, the chancellor focused on the country’s international role, committing to taking on more responsibilities in […]

Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars. Chandler, Arizona, is one of the Phoenix suburbs where Alphabet-owned Waymo is testing self-driving Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans, and where it debuted […]

At least one person is winning big off the video-game phenomenon that is Fortnite: Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games. Fortnite reportedly generates $2.5 million a […]

Last winter, as bitcoin zoomed to $10,000, Mike Novogratz, a hedge-fund-manager-turned-crypto-investor, proclaimed that it could “easily” reach $40,000. Then, when bitcoin broke $11,000, antivirus software pioneer John McAfee boldly predicted […]

Many people spend New Year’s Eve surrounded by lots of people, drinking and cheering and anxiously anticipating the stroke of midnight. That’s alright, but it’s not the only way to […]

American chickpea farmers had a great year in the field, planting some 330,000 acres of the legume, up from 250,000 in 2017, and enjoying ample rainfall that led to high […]