Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected in Washington, DC on Saturday. Follow events with our live updating feed of tweets and photos from people and reporters on the scene.
For the past few decades, humans have ceded thrones to artificial intelligence in games of all kinds. Heads-up no-limit Texas Hold ’em appears to be next.
You blink about 15 to 20 times every single minute. When you do so, you eye actually rolls back in its socket, and then returns to normal when you open your eye. So why don't we feel plunged into darkness and get disoriented 21,000 times (or more) a day?
The most influential large-scale political action of the ’60s was actually in 1971, and you’ve never heard of it. It was called the Mayday action, and it provides invaluable lessons for today.
Welcome to the first installment of a new Digg series that tries to help you get your life back on track by providing a gentle nudge to buy some new things that you've probably needed for a while.
The awful truth about Wi-Fi is that all too often, it simply does not work. But what is it about these state-of-the-art wireless networks and the devices that connect to them that so often fails? A team of Chinese researchers think they've figured it out.
When they were introduced, the Kirkland brand balls instantly ranked among the cheapest on the market. But what made the balls a hot item among fanatical golfers is the revelation that, by some accounts, they perform like rivals that sell for more than twice as much.
As soon as WhiteHouse.gov and other government sites were turned over to the new Trump administration, things looked very different. Here are some of the key policies and issues, including climate change and healthcare, that went missing during the transition.
The Capitol was still under construction on March 4th, 1857, when photographer John Wood set up his wet plate collodion camera and captured the first known photograph of a US Presidential inauguration, as James Buchanan took office.
Just 6.4 miles of ice are holding an iceberg the size of Delaware onto the floating Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, and scientists warn it could cleave off the ice-bound continent at any time.
Interested in white-what hacking? Want to finally learn Photoshop? Here are five of our very best e-learning bundles that will help you hone your skills and maybe help you land a job that isn’t the worst.
Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Iceland's secret to curbing teen drug abuse, ranking fast-food chicken nuggets and the world warms yet again.
This hypothetical astronaut would only have about 15 seconds before they lost consciousness. Before they froze, they would most likely die from asphyxiation or decompression.
From spy planes to cyberattacks to the private lives of foreign leaders, the president gets access to more confidential material than anyone else on the planet. Now, it’s all in Donald Trump’s hands.
"xXx" may be the least-likely franchise revival in recent memory. Can Vin Diesel and an ensemble cast including the likes of Tony Jaa and Ruby Rose justify its reanimation? Here's what the reviews have to say.
The letter from experts comes after a much-castigated article in The Guardian from last week written by a freelance journalist, which interpreted an implementation of WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption as a major security concern.
In a dispatch from another, only slightly more fictional political reality, Netflix announced that season 5 of House of Cards will arrive on May 30th with an eerie teaser.
McDonald's founder Ray Kroc actually took control of the business from two brothers who invented a fast way of serving up food. Does "The Founder" get Kroc dead-to-rights or let him off the hook? Here's what reviews say.