A new study of Baffin Island's glaciers suggests that modern temperatures represent the warmest century in 115,000 years.

Internal Facebook documents obtained by Motherboard show specific steps and strategies taken by the company to fight content moderation issues that may spike during an election season.

Rather than discuss whether buttons are good or bad we should instead examine who gets to push them and who doesn’t.

The studio will alter dialogue and a cutscene after fans complained that the expansion forced the protagonists into a straight marriage.

Could I treat one of America's most treasured cultural products like an overdue book report by playing a video game instead?

"Big Bertha," a lunar rock that was picked up by Apollo 14 astronauts, originated on Earth 4.1 billion years ago, according to a new study.

The bug might have been trapped in amber that became “opalized” over millions of years.

Retro Studios, the team behind the previous Metroid Prime games, is now working on the game.

Temperatures in Port Augusta soared to 49.1ºC (120.4ºF) on Thursday, making it the hottest spot in the country.

As temperatures in North Carolina dropped this week, some residents appeared frozen in ice.

Billionaire Michael Dell was caught apparently unaware that the top marginal tax rate in the US used to be as high, and higher, than what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed.

'Soulless 4,' a ridiculously complex 'Guitar Hero' track, was completed with an unbroken streak for the first time ever.

Forcing a competitive video game to render shitty graphics is cheating, and ‘Battlefield V’ is banning players for doing it.

After Motherboard’s article, a large group of senators wants two government departments to fully investigate the business dealings of telcos and their data sharing arrangements.

A viral video shows a terrorist promising holy war on America from inside the latest migrant caravan. It's the story of the year—and in this future, that may be all that matters.

The island has just one submarine cable that provides internet access for the entire island.

Network investment is down, layoffs abound, and networks are falling apart. This isn’t the glorious future Ajit Pai promised.

Solar Foods says its protein powder is “completely” disconnected from agriculture. But its currently low production yield of 1 kg per day raises red flags.

The popular strategy game is a difficult challenge for AI. At 1 PM EST today, DeepMind will demo its AI on 'Starcraft 2'.

Your life will be so much easier if you force yourself to learn keyboard shortcuts.

UN Environment investigated environmental protection laws around the world from 1972 through 2017 and found the biggest challenge is a failure to properly enforce the laws.

The founder says the charge is ‘baseless,’ but that hasn’t stopped employees at some of the most important infosec companies from posting misogynistic comments in a closed Facebook group.

A team of Columbia researches finds that the climate tipping point may come sooner than we think.

“The giant impact of a rocky planet was required to deliver the unique composition of life-essential elements to Earth.”

Zumigo, which sold the location data of American cell phone users, wanted the FCC to remove requirements around user consent.

Google’s main source of revenue is ads, but Chromium developers claim the change is necessary to enhance user privacy and control.

The iPhone maker's filing to UK-based organization CDP shows how the company expects to adapt and thrive as severe weather events become more common.

Nest's weak password requirements helped him pull off the hack.

Users shouldn’t feel obligated to help Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants police hate. But experts say it’s still worthwhile.

Teams will compete in 10 tournaments in Europe for the chance at a €100,00 prize pool.

It was the first time an impact has been captured on film during a total lunar eclipse.

Harris’s record as a prosecutor and FOSTA advocate makes sex workers question who they’d vote for if it were her against Trump for president.

Capcom's ground-up remake of the 1998 survival-horror game makes the case for reimagining more classic titles.

A report by Chinese authorities on Monday alleged that He Jiankui violated ethics and research integrity in editing the DNA of human babies.

Climate change could disrupt nearly half of the world's groundwater supply within 100 years.

Another version of the “Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act" in Arizona would charge people $20 to remove a porn block from their devices.

For the past 25 years, scientists have struggled to explain how large and unexpected waves are created.

Ocasio-Cortez crashed a Twitch stream raising money for a charity that focuses on helping transgender children.

Apple security expert Jon Callas, who helped build protection for billions of computers and smartphones against criminal hackers and government surveillance, is now taking on government and corporate spying in the policy realm.

Human anatomy still contains many mysteries.

We discuss the behind-the-scenes process of how we learned AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint were ultimately selling users’ location data to bounty hunters, and Senator Ron Wyden explains what he plans to do next.

Alphabet’s Jigsaw has a new quiz to test your ability to distinguish phishing emails from regular, benevolent ones.

'Planet Nine' is thought to be 10 times larger than Earth, but what if it wasn't a planet at all?

The UAE was found to be blocking LGBTQ content using a pre-set category in Netsweeper's software. Amid pressure from rights groups, the company says it's disabled that category.

Either the Moon is telling the audience something about Wayne Hays, or the show made a really stupid mistake.

The F-35 jet is an ever-expanding boondoggle, and now the Pentagon wants it to shoot down nukes.

On January 20, a total lunar eclipse coincides with a supermoon. Here’s how to catch it if you have cloudy skies.

A new government watchdog report says the Pentagon has paid states billions of dollars for counter-narcotics operations without ever asking what would be done with that money.

Thousands of people say that a years-old CNN news feed from the morning of the September 11th attacks has been resurfaced by YouTube's recommendation algorithm.

The Senator expressed “disappointment” and “disbelief” at CEO John Legere’s unfulfilled promise to end the sale of geolocation data to “shady middlemen.”