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First-world quality of life for all is out of reach without an efficiency shake-up.

Republican senator: data breach incident “raises red flags within this committee.”

From a stream in Florida to a pet shop in Germany and on to Japan and Madagascar.

Here’s what to do after landing on a page that freezes your browser.

Will exist outside all original and Rian Johnson trilogies.

According to a colleague's notes, Uber’s co-founder sought "pound of flesh."

Equifax’s new free phone app can “lock” your Equifax credit report. Just beware of typos.

"I would really like to emphasize that the odds of success are not super high."

Apple is also exploring options for those who paid full price for new batteries.

Google’s ban on lock-screen ads probably has something to do with it.

Plus deals on several Amazon devices, a Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit, and more.

This hybrid crossover can do 50mpg.

Google's computational photography special sauce is open to any app on the Pixel 2.

Charter's "gigabit" is 940Mbps down, 35Mbps up, with prices of $105 to $125.

Two approaches set constraints on what these planets might look like.

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may take the stand today.

More than 200 arrests, thousands of accounts and websites seized for "illegal speculation."

The drugs are made by international companies, but they’re not approved anywhere.

As much as $50,000 taken from infected machine in Connecticut, prosecutors say.

Charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor; allegedly began at SeekingArrangement.com.

Thousands of panels across South Australia will work together

“I feel super optimistic. But I feel as though that optimism has no basis in fact.”

ISPs can’t block or throttle traffic if they sell broadband to state agencies.

Pai's FCC takes credit for broadband deployments that began under Obama.

The Store-only version of Windows becomes an installation option instead.

European national science academies report warns tepid emission cuts not enough.

Worm-like infection targets devices that have seldom-used port 5555 open.

Neanderthals in Tuscany charred wooden tools with fire in order to shape them.

See the dueling presentations each side gave on Day 1 in the Waymo v. Uber trial.

Two of the big streaming TV services cut out at critical moments in the game.

Selloff comes after another bank bans use of its credit cards for buying Bitcoin.

And things get wickedly complex in small populations.

The app was restored only after Telegram removed the content.

Dated for Memorial Day 2018; now with longer, dialogue-filled version.

On Day 1 of Waymo v. Uber, Uber says Waymo’s "actual claims just don’t hold water.”

Server-wide cutscene event seems to have been activated prematurely by a glitch.

"Samsung is above the law and the court" says national assembly member.

Markets treat a tether as though it's worth $1. But what if it's not?

Often hilarious, always informative, this history of rocket science is a must-read.

Judge: case is about trade secrets, “not whether or not Uber is an evil corporation.”

The Lightning network could enable much cheaper and faster bitcoin payments.

A new book provides stories of sex and beauty, from the lab and from the field.

Frame-by-frame video analysis suggests records were actually set using emulator

“It’s like instant replay in the NFL; I can tell what happened.”

Musk's Boring Company sold 20,000 flamethrowers in five days.

Defense acknowledges sexual contact, says client “had no idea” witness was a minor.

Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw next week.

In this study, being in one of the control groups was fatal.

Analysis of photos show a railgun system being installed on a Chinese amphibious ship.

Wave Broadband says it had to pay big bucks to avoid losing sports networks.