The world's first hybrid embryos, including genetic material from both pigs and humans, have been created by a team of International scientists.

If you've picked up a new phone recently, chances are you have a couple of instant messaging clients installed on it. I've got eight — too many. In trying to cut down the number of ways I talk to all my different friends and acquaintances and coworkers, though, I've convinced two of my most regularly used group chats — one on Facebook Messenger, and one on iMessage — to move over to Signal. And that's because Signal is the best messaging service out there — here is why.

It's been a rough week for environmentalists in America, but buried amidst a torrent of reports detailing the Trump administration's war on climate science, one uplifting energy story has garnered comparably little attention: The United States may be getting a second offshore wind farm.

This week as an article in the New Yorker detailed how New Zealand has become the hottest spot on the planet for rich Americans to buy property. The New Zealand Herald even discovered that billionaire Peter Thiel, a member of Donald Trump's transition team, acquired citizenship and owns hundreds of acres there. "Buying a house in New Zealand" is now so common for the wealthy that the phrase has become code for having a backup plan for when the world turns to shit, as one mega rich investor told the New Yorker.

But amazingly, there was a brief period in the 19th century when it looked like New Zealand might join the United States. And there were a lot of perfectly logical reasons for it.

While not even George R.R. Martin himself is too sure about his prediction of a 2017 release for the long-awaited Winds of Winter, we now know at least one tale from the world of Westeros will see print this year: As part of an upcoming fantasy anthology book.

Two infants diagnosed with an aggressive and previously incurable form of leukaemia are now in remission, after British doctors say they cured the babies using so-called "designer cells".

Video: Put them in charge of a couple of tons of metal, plastic and petrol, and people do some stupid things. Dash Cam Owners Australia has put together another compilation of Australians being morons on our roads — and this month, we're actually kinda playing catch-up, because we missed a bunch of these late last year. Our bad.

There are all kinds of reasons you might want to minimise the power draw of your laptop or desktop. To save battery, of course, but also to keep your electricity bills lower and reduce your impact on the planet. Here are all the ways you can knock down the amount of power your computer is drawing.

Marvel is teaming up with the company behind Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy and Hitman to create a big-ticket line of new video games — and they're kicking off with Earth's Mightiest Heroes in The Avengers Project.

If you live or work somewhere with terrible mobile reception, you've already felt the pain of trying to make or receive a call and having it drop out or go straight to voicemail. Optus has finally switched on its solution to that problem, letting you make calls over whatever high-speed Wi-Fi network you're connected to — at least if you're using one of Samsung's Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge phones.

When Tesla announced last fall that an updated Autopilot was set to roll out, company founder Elon Musk turned heads when he said new vehicles would be equipped with fully-autonomous hardware. The update's here, but it's being implemented with less-pizzazz and more caution; Tesla enthusiasts may be wondering what's going on. Only a 72km/h max for Autosteer? Here's what's going on.

A visual effects company has claimed in a lawsuit that Faraday Future owes it $US1.8 million for a graphic presentation that was designed to promote this month's launch of the automaker's first production vehicle.

Vin Diesel has high hopes for a solo Groot movie. Sonequa Martin-Green and Scott Gimple discuss whether Star Trek: Discovery could mean a grim fate for Sasha on The Walking Dead. Dan Harmon discusses why Rick and Morty's third season isn't done yet. Plus, new footage from The LEGO Batman movie. To me, my spoilers!

It's 2.5 minutes to midnight. We're all screwed.

Video: More alien romance is almost a certainty in Mass Effect: Andromeda. There'll be some new races to horizontal tango with. And are those space pyjamas or what?

Remember how Donald Trump hammered on Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State? During the election, Trump went as far as wanting to put "Crooked Hillary" behind bars, because having staffers use emails not monitored by the government could be a bad thing. But according to a new report from Newsweek, key Trump staffers are all have using accounts running on the Republican National Committee's private email server.

On Gotham, we've got a young Bruce Wayne who isn't Batman yet. And it's unclear as to whether mega-maniac Jerome Valeska will become the Joker destined to become the Dark Knight's arch-foe. But the Fox superhero show is going to have them fight anyway, because there ain't no rules in its weird little pocket universe.

Universal has bought Michael Bay's new future dystopia project Little America. The movie is apparently set the near-future where a Trump-like president has bankrupted the country, China has called in its debts, and Americans are migrating to China looking for work. It's also being described as "sci-fun." I have some questions.

The people at the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube have run out of stuff to smash into oblivion, so on their side channel, Beyond the Press, they have decided to just start dumping garbage into lakes.