A Motherboard investigation has found that around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data.

Documents show that bail bond companies used a secret phone tracking service to make tens of thousands of location requests.

Last year, 14 natural disasters caused at least $1 billion in damage each.

After discovering that honeybees understand the concept of zero, scientists tested the insect’s ability to spot gains and losses.

EA’s new battle royale game is all about the joy of movement, teamwork, and fantastic superpowers.

In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to "unlock iCloud" from iPhones.

Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol.

The revolving door spins yet again as consumer ally quickly shifts to lobbying for big telecom.

Come get them.

When Islamophobia, inequality, and climate change collide, well, this is How It Can Happen Here.

On Monday, the World Magnetic Model was updated to account for the north pole’s eccentric behavior, after a delay caused by the US federal shutdown.

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"Mountain people are really getting hit hard."

Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX owes customers roughly $190 million CAD in cryptocurrency, but its deceased founder controlled the funds, the company claims.

Phytoplankton blooms tint the oceans green, which means their response to warmer waters will shake up the ocean color scheme.

Some 50 million Indigenous peoples died during the 16th century, a collapse that caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to drop.

A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks is the first person to be sentenced for the crime.

Prominent right to repair advocates are teaching the basics of the movement and how to get in touch with legislators during live YouTube town halls.

Congressman Will Hurd is the only Republican representing a district along the border, and he wants to use technological solutions to secure the border and possibly close the digital divide.

How might we feel if we're forced to watch the execution of our future robotic counterparts?

A new study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that 14 billion tons of ice have almost entirely disappeared from Thwaites Glacier in the last three years.

“They lied to the State of Nevada, misled a federal court, and jeopardized the safety of Nevada’s families and environment,” Governor Sisolak said.

Motherboard has identified a specific UK bank that has fallen victim to so-called SS7 attacks, and sources say the issue is wider than previously reported.

The “moderate to severe” vulnerabilities discovered by the hacker LimitedResults have since been fixed, according to the smart bulb company LIFX.

TikTok is not immune from engagement-hungry algorithms that dominate the internet as we know it.

Some cosmologists have predicted the existence of “walls bounded by strings” in the aftermath of the Big Bang, and now a team of physicists have created these quantum structures on Earth for the first time.

Antarctanax shackletoni, or the “Antarctic king,” is an iguana-sized ancestor to dinosaurs and modern crocodiles.

Massive merger debt forced company to raise rates, only driving users to cut the cord even faster.

When researchers measured the welfare of hundreds of people who left Facebook for a month, they found they were happier, less politically informed, more active in IRL activities, and less likely to go back to Facebook.

Expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline could spell trouble for salmon populations and the orcas that rely on them for food, experts say.

Just keep it.

“If it does disappear from these shores, it is gone from the planet.”

Google is taking steps to make it harder for someone to push a malicious update that disables the security features on an Android phone.

Black holes swallow everything that comes in contact with them, so how do plasma jets manage to escape their intense gravity?

Bell wanted the privacy tools—which can also be used to access geo-blocked media—to be made unlawful under NAFTA.

This week on CYBER, we talk to Jek, who tells us the tricks of her trade.

The unsettling costume was dreamt up by an employee at the agency that oversees America's nuclear stockpile.

The extent of the damages are still unknown.

By shutting down the Wii Store Channel and not letting users download old games, Nintendo is once again showing that in the modern digital era, you don’t actually own the things you buy.

Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chellie Pingree penned a letter to the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft schooling them on climate change.

The cryptic lives of gray wolves in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park are revealed through stunning GPS location maps.

LSD appears to cause information to disintegrate as it is passed through a neural circuit that determines how we process internal and external stimuli.

"The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries."

A leading explanation for the different patterns seen in Earth’s northern and southern auroras has been ruled out.

A new bug allows anyone to listen in on your iPhone and, for now, there's no fix.

“We didn't even have enough money to build a second dome to protect our second telescope! Yet we still managed to make a discovery that is impossible for the big projects.”

Ham-fisted attacks on internet pirates may actually be counterproductive, researchers warn.

The prolific musician and author explains why writing a transcendent piece of music remains essentially human.

According to the CDC, there’s a salmonella outbreak in 11 states that has been linked to contact with hedgehogs. Hedgehogs are cancelled.

Our planet's core probably started solidifying in the late Ediacaran period, which recharged the magnetic field in the nick of time.