As countries around the world struggled to control the disease, they imposed temporary strikes. Scientists now use satellite and ground-collected data to understand what this gap in human activity can tell us about the atmospheric cocktail that creates urban pollution. Most of the preliminary data was shared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December. It is already known that human activities have significantly been reduced in April due to a dramatic drop in greenhouse...

WhatsApp users around the world made more than 1.4 billion voice and video calls on New Year's Eve 2020, which is the highest number of calls in a single day on the platform, according to Facebook. While New Year’s Eve has always caused great sharpness in usage on Facebook’s sites, the COVID-19 pandemic is making new records. WhatsApp invitations to the New Year celebration have increased by more than 50 percent compared to the same day last year, according to the social media company. Other...

Emma Stone is going to be a mom! After months of rumors that she was pregnant, the 32-year-old Oscar-winning actress was found touching her baby bump while walking with a friend. This is going to be the first child for Emma and her husband, Dave McCary. Their marriage was re-confirmed in September last year after several rumors that they had secretly tied the knot. The pregnancy rumors started in September after these photos of the couple came out. Emma has recently pulled out of a high-profile...

Saweetie makes her professional TV debut this month by starring as bossy rapper Indigo in the Yara Shahidi fronted Freeform sitcom Grown-ish. The show will officially return to the network on January 21st. Shahidi’s character Zoey Johnson has officially dropped out of college, becoming a full-time celebrity stylist for rapper Joey, who plays himself as a recurring guest star on the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the teaser clip shows Johnson working for his protégé...

Among the most complex cosmic dances that astronomers have ever seen, the three rings of gas and the circle of dust are three stars. GW Orionis, a galaxy about 1,300 light-years away in the Orion galaxy, locks a pair of young stars in close-up do-si-do, with the third star orbiting both. Around all three stars is a broken-disk of dust and gas that could one day form planets. Unlike the flat disk that led to the planets in our solar system, the GW Orionis disk consisted of three spirals in which...

'Evermore' tops the Billboard 200 for the second frame. Taylor Swift has topped the Billboard Artist 100 rankings (dated January 2) for the 43rd week in a row. She holds at No. 1 on the strength of her LPs Evermore and Folklore. Nielsen Music / MRC Data says the former spends its second week on the Billboard 200 with 169,000 equivalent album units, the latter eight weeks (53,000 units), eight weeks later. With the 2014 release of the chart, Swift has topped the Artist 100 for more...

Selena Gomez has a big problem with Facebook. The 28-year-old singer took to Twitter to share a video hosted by BBC News with Imi Ahmed, CEO of the Digital Hate Center, saying that social media companies like Facebook are doing everything in their power to reduce misinformation about COVID-19. But really, they did nothing. " Selena then shared her own message with the video, slandering Facebook for allowing "lies" to spread on their site. Selena wrote that “Scientific disinformation has...

Battlefield 3 is finally free ... the tyranny of official servers. After five years of growth, Venice Unleashed, or VU, has finally gone public. Mod Reverse-Engineers use Battlefield 3's server code not only for privately hosted servers, but also for creating a platform for each type of mod. VU allows you to configure dedicated servers, including mod tools, which is a blessing in disguise as Official Battlefield 3 servers have been battling cheats for years. That said, before this you could only...

Cardi B is a rapper, fashion icon and now ... fortune teller? The star on launched a new Instagram page called @cardibtruthteller, in which she promotes "inspiring 2021 readings" from December 26 to December 31. “2020 has been a rough baby,” says the bio. "Let’s get that astral plane looking tight." The rapper, who confirmed the news on Twitter, said she's really going to say good luck next week, which is not the "surprise" she recently been teasing though.

Stream Winter Sales started today, Epic offers more games than anyone plays in a year. GOG has got its own freebie, and the Humble Store offers a Humble Choice premium of six dollars a month for six months' subscriptions. But if this isn’t enough to keep you occupied enough during the holidays, there’s one more thing to the Blizzard pile: the Hero Shooter Overwatch is free to play until January 4th. Overwatch has gone free a myriad of times before, but, not for two solid weeks. The...