From safety issues to technical problems, there are many issues that need to be addressed before self-driving cars can hit the roads. But one, possibly unexpected, consequence of the autonomous cars is that they could give sex lives a boost. Barrie Kirk of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence believes people will have ‘a lot more sex in cars’, …

Google has acquired Synergyse for use as a training tool for Google Apps. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Google, companies that use Synergyse have “on average 35 percent higher adoption across Apps products, meaning those organizations are more likely to be productive, collaborative and embrace digital transformation.”

Astronomers have discovered not one, not two, but three new Earth-like planets that may be the most promising places yet to look for signs of alien life. For the first time, an international team of astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have detected three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, just 40 light years from …

David Hasselhoff has announced his engagement to girlfriend Hayley Roberts. Speaking to Hello! magazine, the 63-year-old explained that he’d popped the question to Hayley, 36, during a romantic beachside picnic in Malibu. Hasselhoff met Hayley when he was in Britain as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.

Researchers have unravelled a very, very cold case – a savage killing from half a million years ago. Tooth-marks on a 500,000-year-old hominin femur bone found in a Moroccan cave indicate that it was consumed by large carnivores, likely hyenas, according to a study published April 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Camille Daujeard from the Muséum …

Donald Trump enjoys a two-point lead over Hillary Clinton in a new Rasmussen poll. Last week, Rasmussen Reports gave voters the option of staying home on Election Day if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the big party nominees, and six percent (6%) said that’s what they intend to do for now. Clinton and Trump were tied with 38% support …

A probate hearing about Prince’s estate is expected to start Monday. The hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. in Carver County District Court. Barring any objections from the other five surviving siblings, the Carver County judge will likely go along with the request. The move will allow the bank to manage affairs at Paisley Park. However, its role would be …

Peru drug trafficker Gerson Galvez was arrested at a shopping center in Medellin, Colombia on Saturday. Colombian law enforcement arrested one of the main Peruvian criminal authorities, Gerson Galvez Calle nicknamed Caracol (the Snail), Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.

John Brennan, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has said that it would be a mistake to release the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission report because they contain “un-vetted” information that could implicate Saudi Arabia in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. John Brennan voiced his support for keeping the notoriously redacted ’28 pages’ in …

Sony is following in the footsteps of Google or Samsung with a patent for smart contact lenses. The patent, which doesn’t appear to have been approved yet, describes a “contact lens and storage medium” capable of controlling an “image pickup unit” (aka a camera). The patent describes a lens that can take images when it detects the “conscious” blink of …

The chief of staff to Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell stepped down days after it was revealed he forwarded emails containing jokes mocking minorities, Muslims and women when he worked for Burbank police. Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Angel’s resignation is a message posted to the department’s Facebook page Sunday afternoon. McDonnell called Angel’s emails, revealed last month by the …