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In response to President Trump’s executive order that suspends the admission of refugees into the US, and temporarily bans people from seven Muslim-majority nations, Google has pledged $4 million in support immigrant organizations. According to USA Today, the money would be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees / UN Refugee Agency (UNHR).

A political candidate's online support isn't always in the open, and Hillary Clinton wouldn't mind changing that. In her presidential campaign concession speech , she indirectly thanked "secret, private" Facebook support groups like Pantsuit Nation, a 3 million-strong outfit she'd messaged (through her digital team leader) on election day. At the same time, she didn't want supporters keeping their message bottled up in these groups -- she wanted them "coming out from behind that" to make sure their "voices are heard." You can see the statement below at the 15:15 mark. Both statements were brief, but they acknowledge both the importance of social networking in modern political campaigns as well as the problems it can create. The very fact that millions of supporters had their own space to discuss the campaign and political issues is relatively novel, and opening it to the public could easily have invited trolling and h...

With an anti-regulation crusader on his transition team, the FCC's Net Neutrality rules will likely be gutted. On January 20th, Donald Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States. With a Republican-controlled House and Senate behind him, things in this country are going to change... a lot. One of the things that might be on the chopping block early in his administration is Net Neutrality. This is obviously an issue near and dear to our hearts here at Engadget, and it's pretty safe to assume that the rules instituted by the FCC in 2015 will be gutted by a Trump administration. In 2014, he described the concept as a " top down power grab " that "will target the conservative media," and compared it to the Fairness Doctrine -- referring to the FCC rule eliminated in 1987 that required broadcasters to present contrasting views on topics of public interest. While it might be tempting to dismiss those vaguely paranoid sounding declar...

China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer using locally made microchips, a survey said Monday, the first time the country has taken the top spot without using US technology.   AFP Photo / Paul Kuske The Sunway TaihuLight machine is twice as fast as the previous number one, which was built in China with chips from US firm Intel, the Top500 survey of supercomputers said on its website www.top500.org.

A few months ago, a Trump GOP nomination seemed impossible. But now, it seems inevitable. When Donald Trump announced his campaign, I thought there was no way anyone would support him after the comments he made about Mexican immigrants. When he offended women with his comments about debate moderator Megyn Kelly, I thought his campaign would be over. When he called for a ban of all Muslims, I thought that would be the last straw. But again and again, Trump has gained more support.

People coming out of the subway at the October Fields station on the outskirts of Moscow saw a horrifying scene on Monday. A tall woman in a black hijab was holding up a small human head by its hair, yelling, “Allahu Akbar!” and threatening to blow herself up. Some witnesses, understandably, panicked. In the last two decades Russia has suffered from dozens of terrorist attacks that have taken the lives of hundreds of people. Two female suicide bombers killed 40 people and injured more than 100 in separate bombings on the Moscow subway in 2010. But this one had it’s own particularly gruesome aspects.

Donald Trump won primaries in Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Massachusetts, claiming the first five Republican victories on Super Tuesday as the New York businessman extends his dominance in the 2016 primary. With no wins so far, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were fighting to emerge as the leading Trump alternative. Contests in Vermont, Oklahoma and Arkansas were too close to call as the first polls closed, while voting continued across four other states. Trump's first five victories came as the GOP front-runner looked for a sweep on a Super Tuesday marked by panic from Republican leaders.

An interesting craze is catching like wildfire among the India’s youth. It’s not quite as puzzling as the “planking” fad that swept through the western world in 2011, but it is proving to be just as unexpectedly dangerous. Since 2014, at least 49 deaths have been linked to selfies, but a disproportionate 19 of these deaths have occurred in India, where a trend the press is calling “Selfie Fever” is running rampant. In response to this phenomenon, Mumbai has ordered that it will be illegal to take selfies in 16 particularly at-risk zones throughout the city. The Guardian is citing the source of India’s selfie problem as “a thirst for social media self-aggrandisement” that’s fueled by such things as newspaper coverage of celebrity selfies and a competitive drive to take more and more creative and unexpected selfies in strange places and at bizarre angles. Also contributing to this figure is India’s large and growing population (1.25 billion) and a booming smartphone market...

Nasa has reported that a truck-sized meteor slammed into the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 41,600mph on 6 February 2016, exploding with a force equivalent to 13,000 tonnes of TNT – nearly matching the 15,000 tonnes force of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb which levelled the city of Hiroshima in 1945. Luckily, the point of entry into the Earth's atmosphere was 600 miles east of Rio de Janeiro and the ensuing impact was too small to generate a tsunami. No-one was injured and there were no eye-witness reports. However, what concerns astronomers is the fact that no-one saw the meteor coming.

Man casually walking along the street with a woman's blood-stained head in one hand and an axe in the other sounds like stuff out of a horror movie... but it's what locals saw in an Indian city on Friday.

Stephen Hawking has said that mini black holes could potentially provide enough energy to supply the world's electricity demands – but could also destroy the planet. He made these comments as part of the BBC's Reith lectures. The special series on black holes looks at the physicist's ideas about these collapsed stars from which nothing can escape.   Stephen Hawking In the latest talk – a full transcript of which can be found here – Hawking said that 'mini' black holes, with the same mass of a mountain, would give off enough electricity to power the planet.

US equity markets gained ground early on 3 February, with Wall Street looking to bring a two-day losing streak to a halt, after a steady recovery in oil prices seemed to boost investors' confidence. Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.46% to 16,227.46, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were 0.34% and 0.27% higher respectively, with stocks on track to recoup part of the previous session's energy stocks-driven losses. Having fallen below the $30 (£20.6, €27.4) a barrel threshold again on 2 February, oil prices rebounded, as Brent crude gained 3.05% to $33.75 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate rose 2.89% to $30.77 a barrel. "Crude oil has been bouncing up and down along with the rise and fall of rumours surrounding meetings about potential production cuts," said CMC Markets analyst Colin Cieszynski. "Yesterday's [2 February] denials sent crude oil lower but signs that Russia still may be willing ...