Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Surrounded by reporters, Jason Van Dyke said nothing as he and his attorney walked into the courthouse at 26th Street and California.

Microsoft released its latest Windows 10 Mobile preview build on Nov. 18, and users who are on both fast and slow ring of Windows Insiders can now avail of the update. It carries the build number 10586 and is said to be the RTM version of the Windows 10 Mobile OS. The Windows 10 Mobile preview build 10586 is almost …

Randy Houser Ejects Fan From Kentucky Concert After Fight. At his concert in Corbin, Kentucky on Friday, Houser stopped the show when he spotted a fight in the crowd. He had some strong words for the out-of-control fan and then had him removed from the show. The audience cheered as Houser waited for security to arrive.

Extreme weather caused nearly $2 trillion in economic losses. Natural disasters have killed more than 600,000 people and left behind trillions of dollars in damages in the last two decades, the United Nations said Monday. The five countries hit by the highest number of disasters, according to the report, were the United States with 472, China with 441, India with …

Pebble smartwatches have long offered more functionality with Android phones than they do with iOS devices, but today iOS Pebble users are gaining a nifty new feature. Pebble has announced Text Reply for iOS, a beta feature that lets iOS users reply to incoming text messages from their Pebble smartwatch. Replies can be dictated by voice or selected from a …

BlackBerry Priv is the Canadian company’s latest high-end smartphone, which ships with Android as its operating system out of the box. If you based in the UK, you’ll be glad to know that you’ll be able to purchase the handset from ShopBlackBerry’s website.

A baby who has spent the past two months in a Miami hospital after his premature birth on a cruise ship reached his final destination in Utah. Haiden Morgan was born three months early while his family was on a 7-day cruise. With a due date of Dec. 19, Haiden only weighed 1 pound when he was born, and doctors …

Exposing people suffering from depression to bright light shortly after they wake up improves their well-being, a study has found. “These results are very exciting because light therapy is inexpensive, easy to access and use, and comes with few side effects,” said Dr. Raymond Lam, a UBC professor and psychiatrist at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, a partnership …

Scientists in California say they have genetically engineered mosquitoes that cannot be infected with the malaria parasite — and they’ve done it in a way that virtually guarantees the trait will spread quickly in a population. Using a groundbreaking gene editing technique, University of California scientists have created a strain of mosquitoes capable of rapidly introducing malaria-blocking genes into a …

A yoga class at the University of Ottawa was allegedly cancelled over concerns of cultural appropriation and oppression. The university’s Centre for Students with Disabilities is claiming ”while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students … there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.”

The State Department issued a Worldwide Travel Alert Monday , citing an increase in terrorist threat as Americans head into Thanksgiving weekend. The travel alert urges caution for any Americans traveling abroad, coming in the wake of a terrorist attack in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people.