Joined a new community and discovered—to your horror—that there are no party parrots? Let's fix that.

I never knew what these charging blocks were for until my Nintendo Switch started to die in the living room.

You don’t have to pay full price for downloads, subscriptions, or even in-app purchases. Here’s how.

Many companies have pulled physical servers from the country as a mandate to collect customer data goes into effect.

Plus: A leaked trove illuminates Russia’s internet regulator, a report finds Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinian rights, and more.

Plus: Framework has a new ultra-repairable Chromebook, there's a cheaper Google Chromecast, and Amazon refreshes its Fire HD tablets.

A cache of phytoplankton at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is helping researchers reconstruct historical coastlines.

You might not be scooping poop anymore, but Whisker's app can still give you vital information on your cat's health.

Now’s a great time to upgrade your home entertainment solutions for the months to come.

Worries about polio, monkeypox, and Covid-19 are rising. Here’s how to gather your health information, even if you’ve lost the paper records.

The Maroon 5 frontman’s alleged Instagram messages are taking on a life of their own.

New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

In their new book, brothers Steven, Jay, and Bob Novella try to improve on the futurism of yesteryear by identifying 10 "futurism fallacies" that have bedeviled earlier predictions.

The company is going after cryptocurrency gambling—but will that be enough to satisfy concerned streamers?

Amid protests against the killing of Mahsa Amini, authorities have cut off mobile internet, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The death toll continues to rise.

If you want to attain high speeds without getting airborne, it helps to know a little something about friction.

The one-time Barb deals with hecklers and homophobes with the cunning of a true internet native. This week, he bought them pizza.

Plus: The Supreme Court in cyberspace, what’s up with Web3, and ghost town resurrections.

The iconic late-’90s anime isn’t as ubiquitous as that other franchise about fighting monsters. But its devoted fandom is keeping the story alive.

Plug in this bright yellow audio interface, and you can play live music with anyone within 620 miles.

Virgin Orbit will launch satellites from the country for the first time, bringing orbital flight capability to Europe.

An ambitious cable project aims to power thousands of homes with renewable energy by 2030.

An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.

Steve Case, founder of AOL, predicts the dominance of tech companies on the coasts will give way to a flourishing of startups from smaller cities.

Security firm Chainguard has created a simple, open source way for organizations to defend the cloud against some of the most insidious attacks.

This is a good example of how you make already-great wireless earbuds even better.

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly.

Meticulous turf is environmentally terrible. Yet grass does have one charm: It “sweats,” helping cool the local area.

This week, we talk about Peloton’s growing product lineup, and whether our days of sweating along to streamed exercise classes at home are over.

When “if you see something, say something” becomes “we see everything,” everyone loses.

The EU’s chief antitrust enforcer Margrethe Vestager says that US tech companies are changing their behavior as global regulators question their dominance.

These books were looking at the origins of the war between the Rebels and the Empire long before the new Disney+ show.

Extreme temperatures are the direct result of climate change, which means more intense heat events, wild fires, and droughts to come.

As a young Black woman, I saw my pregnancy treated like a problem. So I ditched the doctors for home delivery and found an alternative model for health care.

Uber and Lyft spent millions promoting a controversial ballot measure. A new study suggests it has lowered driver wages.

Yes, I got Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PlayStation Remote Play working on my Steam Deck.

Many associate the ‘America First’ movement with Trump, but its origins—and rebirth—are more complicated.

Nintendo’s latest in its paint-powered “squid game" franchise is just as fun and colorful as before, and is also a refreshing breath of fresh air.

With Crash Detection and longer battery life in Low Power mode, the wearables seem to be designed for an increasingly terrifying world.

Riffs on a wisecrack about the great Pagliacci have been around for decades. Their proliferation on Twitter says something about the human condition.

A new study shows that cycling packages the final few miles to their recipients isn’t just greener than using a van, but often quicker too.

Artists are free to create fantasies or nightmares with unrestricted image generator Stable Diffusion, but some fear a flood of AI-made horrors.

But as Ukrainians retake ground, some of the firms are erasing their online presence.

When hackers release game information early, it's the developers that suffer—not the players.

A global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness. Now a second similar pathogen is on the way.

The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps.

Duolingo's gamification made Spanish lessons fun—and helped bridge the gap with my tween.

Underneath his misguided, inflammatory bluster about MAGA and slavery, Kanye holds a radical vision for a Black future.