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Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.

A new kind of analysis shows why the Barcelona team of 2009-10 stands head and shoulders above the rest. And the same approach could do the same for other sports.

Stable digital currencies—and particularly Facebook’s plans to launch one—have central bankers playing defense.

NASA has shared audio snippets of Martian quakes detected by the InSight lander earlier this year.

What makes an extraterrestrial world habitable? New tools and modeling software are providing clues.

A new model suggests the price should start high and then fall over time, in a total reversal of conventional wisdom.

As deepfakes get better, companies are rushing to develop technology to detect them. But little of their potential harm will be fixed without social and legal solutions.

Astronomers think there’s another planet in our solar system, but no one has been able to see it. That could be because it’s not a conventional planet at all.

Publicly, the platform says it’s trying to do what it can to minimize the amplification of extreme content. But it’s still looking for ways to keep users on the site.

Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, discusses how we could achieve general intelligence—and why that might make machines safer.

A new analysis suggests that dew harvesting, an affordable passive technology, could be practical in places where it has never been possible before.

A secret-shopper study shows that automated medicine is safer and more efficient than we thought.

Theoretically, Google could fire the Pittsburgh tech contractors who just voted to unionize.

And no, super-powerful computers are not about to take over

Maybe we need a cap on how many satellites internet firms are allowed to send into orbit.

Polling shows more people will need to demand action on climate change, particularly Republicans, to ensure the passage of desperately needed policies.

With help from a neural network, researchers reconstructed an image the artist created and painted over during his Blue Period.

Well-hidden sea walls, white rooftops, and community programs to monitor for signs of heat illnesses are all part of the strategy for helping the Big Apple cope with global warming.