Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban ...

Our eyeballs have seen a lot this year. We have scrolled through a digital universe of products so vast, it has its own ...

A teen accepts a friend request from an older “fan” on Instagram. Within days, that person is sending in-game gifts, pushing the chat to a disappearing-message app, and asking for “private” pics. That ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition has ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.