On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show how difficult it is for social media companies to moderate live footage.

Tether said its USDT token was 'backed 1-to-1 by traditional currency' but now adds cash equivalents, receivables from loans, and other assets to its reserves.

DM Tau has its own asteroid belt, and may be developing its own versions of Earth and Neptune, too.

In the not so distant future, on the shores of submerged Miami, a tale of sex, server farms, and the exploited human 'reboots' who keep the new world humming.

The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.

Adults have an impact on students' math anxiety, but that can change.

“What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.”

“This discovery dramatically changes our view on the origin of fast-moving stars.”

Jam for 114 years to celebrate π day.

Spotify alleges that Apple uses its ownership over iOS and the App Store to impose an 'Apple tax' that stifles competition.

Luckily, the natural wonder was caught on camera by a photographer.

“Tune” is an app that uses machine learning to filter what it thinks is “toxic” content, but it’s far from perfect.

Activists say efforts to “compromise” at this juncture would only weaken rules with broad, bipartisan public support.

Glocom is a front company for North Korea to sell sanctions violating military equipment. But, even after some tech companies clamped down, Glocom kept up its presence on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.

Some 4,500 years ago, the ticket to a megalithic party was a pig from your local farm.

Opportunity spent its final months building this panorama of its location, which is now its gravesite.

“It is now abundantly clear that you have failed to be good stewards of your customers’ private location information,” Senator Wyden wrote in a letter addressed to AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon.

The future of 'Judgement,' a 'Yakuza' series spinoff, is uncertain after 51-year-old actor Pierre Taki was reportedly arrested for cocaine possession.

As the threat from Disney grows, the streaming giant sees anime as a growth market.

A proposal would tax targeted ads in a bid to bring some money back to those that actually make the news.

'Crypto' is primed to be an instant so-bad-it's-good classic à​ la 1995’s 'The Net.'

"To our knowledge, this is the first reported case."

The AI research group founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman and largely funded by Peter Thiel, shockingly, will now seek profit.

Yuka the woolly mammoth died a long time ago, but scientists gave her cells a short second life in mouse egg cells.

The company says it has been working on an update to the system implicated in a deadly 2018 crash.

You can now buy the Cock Cam, a cock ring with a camera on it, for $160.

We recently got a rare look at how a company tried to source these exploits through private one-on-one deals—because the company came to us.

AT&T insisted that post-merger “efficiencies” would likely result in lower, not higher rates.

The Beresheet lander will attempt the first private Moon landing on April 11.

The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit 'send.'

Bacteria could be genetically engineered to produce industrial quantities of biodegradable polymers based on squid teeth.

A group of researchers discovered that Earth’s atmosphere extends almost twice the distance to the Moon after analyzing data gathered in the 1990s.

Someone has published the decryption key for the third layer of allegedly 9/11-linked documents from The Dark Overlord hacking group.

A newly-proposed bill could become the first legislation to ensure individuals and independent shops can repair brand-name devices in North America.

There’s a steep price to pay for mindless media consolidation and the elimination of quality, local reporting, according to a new study.

Ajit Pai's FCC insists that ignoring consumers and gutting oversight of major ISPs dramatically boosted network investment. Reality suggests something else entirely.

As well as the Fernandina tortoise, another “giant” species thought to be possibly extinct showed up this year—Wallace’s giant bee.

The public penetration test doesn’t begin until next week, but experts who examined leaked code for the Swiss internet voting system say it’s poorly designed and makes it difficult to audit the code for security and configure it to operate securely.

The experiment aimed to resolve the longstanding debate over the evolutionary purpose of zebra stripes.

The Facebook CEO's land grab on Kauai has culminated in a public auction set for March.

Two new video games look at a world ruined by nuclear war and offer two very different meditations on hope and power.

Hippocamp may have been forged by the fallout of an impact billions of years ago.

Ugly Mugs, a UK-based call screening app that helps workers avoid dangerous clients, is at risk for being shut down.

The booming industry of spyware to spy on romantic partners doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Companies need financial and tech giants to process their payments and advertise their wares.

In this week’s episode of CYBER, Motherboard talks about the complex, underground industry of breaking into iCloud-locked iPhones, which brings together thieves, coders, and hackers from around the world.

Yet again the Apple II community has found something extremely cool to do with the vintage computer.

Three big reasons why BioWare's online mech shooter still feels like it's fighting the player just days before its February 22 wide release.

“The future of our children is terrifying.”

Human computer interfaces are almost never built with transgender people in mind, and continue to reinforce existing biases.

A park safety manager reveals that three buckets of uranium ore were sitting in a museum storage basement, starting in 2000.