Global demand for gold declined in the second quarter and the first half of this year overall, but demand for gold as an investment rose to a record as holdings of exchange-traded funds reached a record high in late June, according to a report by the World Gold Council released …

The findings also suggest that exoplanets found within habitable zones may be susceptible to the ice age. At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was enclosed in a layer of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in rapid succession, somewhere around 700 million years …

Microsoft has released a new application called Family Safety, which offers parental controls between devices for Android, iOS, Windows and Xbox. After being in beta testing for a few months, this week Microsoft, through The edge, officially launched its new parental control and family management application, Family Safety. Traditional parental …

The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report how bad the second quarter was on Thursday, in its first estimate of gross domestic product, the economy’s most comprehensive measure. Economists surveyed by Refinitiv expect an annualized decrease of 34.1% between April and June. That would be the worst contraction since the …

A senior SpaceX director shared a photo of the next Crew Dragon spacecraft assigned to launch NASA astronauts and confirmed that the vehicle is almost ready to send to Florida. At the bottom of SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California rocket factory, the Crew Dragon capsule, believed to be C207, assigned to the …