Threads: Meta’s rival to Elon Musk’s X launches in EU

The annual video game expo struggled to stay popular after gaming giants launched their own events.

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A staggering 180,000 species of butterflies and moths flit about this planet, yet their lone emoji avatar is a generic blue butterfly that looks like…

Researchers at University College London are using virtual reality (VR) to help with the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. BBC Click’s Lara Lewington takes a turn with the VR headset to try out the navigation-themed test devised to help identify the early signs of the disease.

PARIS — The April 6 protest had already been moving for half an hour by the time I found Rémy Buisine. The 32-year-old video journalist at French online media outlet Brut had given me his live location, but he wasn’t wearing his neon-yellow press armband yet and, given his outfit (a light, navy puffer jacket and…

eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S. Bloomberg |  Getty Images Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, according to court papers filed Thursday. The Justice Department charged eBay…

Supermarkets and other retailers are increasing switching to AI-powered digital price displays.