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The board’s first content moderation decisions show how impossible its task—and Facebook’s—really is.

If anywhere could use innovation, it’s Miami—one of the country’s most unequal, environmentally vulnerable cities.

More than 60 years after the incident, scientists say they have new evidence pointing to a peculiar kind of avalanche as the culprit.

Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Forces” could be abused.

Mike Pence promised to land on the moon in 2024, but that’s fallen out of reach. So what now?

Though the game has a fraught history, it was a true indie darling. And now it’s back, having aged surprisingly well, actually.

From coded memes to deepfake porn, abusive disinformation campaigns are sliding past moderation tools. Platforms, Congress, and employers need to help women fight back.

The pandemic is hitting unhoused people especially hard. But the efforts that sprang up to address it could change their fates for the better.

San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities have enacted moratoriums on government use of the tech. New York looks like a harder sell.

Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.

To achieve true unity, we must contend with the underlying cause of our division—decades of conspiratorial messages, and sophisticated networks to spread them.

Big grocery chains relied on app-based delivery companies at the start of the pandemic. Now grocers’ priorities have shifted.

Yes, you can use devices from different brands. And yes, location definitely matters.

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.

Silicon Valley’s problem is not an excess of frat-house behavior. It’s much worse.

During the pandemic, thousands of women have skipped scans and check-ups. So physicians tapped an algorithm to predict those at the highest risk.

A global operation has taken down the notorious botnet in a blow to cybercriminals worldwide.

This light, versatile, and low-maintenance bicycle has reconciled me to the existence of gravel bikes.

Life is chaos, but needing to control a fictional story can be stressful too.

Educators have lobbied to be prioritized for the Covid-19 vaccine, but they've also made the ethically questionable call to continue to wait to reopen.

The British audio brand's carbon fiber noise-canceling headphones have become my favorite quarantine companion.

Uncover the marvels of the Ancient language and explore the Nebula and the secrets contained within this indie game.

If the president wants to win the race on 5G and other technologies, he'll need more than the support of America's traditional global allies.

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction turns a century of neologisms (and neosemes!) into a redefintion of the genre.

Across the globe, SARS-CoV-2 is evolving ways to evade the immune system and become more infectious. Blown pandemic response plans are to blame.

The sweeping campaign took advantage of the collaborative spirit among researchers, with an unknown number of victims.

What began as a Facebook group, and then a chat on Discord, soon became a massive campaign to remedy grueling working conditions across the industry.

On Facebook, videos of people reporting disturbing side effects from the shots have been viewed by millions. Fact-checking efforts can't keep up.

Most analogies for racism as a pathology oversimplify its blight. Better diagnosing it means knowing how to treat it.

It’s not just a nostalgia thing. Sifting through the past often leads to something new.

Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires a huge wartime-style investment.

What if things escalated? What if communications were knocked out? What if cyberwar was just the start? A note about this special six-part series.

“We've got a ship in duress that hasn't sent out a distress signal. Something doesn't add up.”

Mega-sites need a lot of personnel and pose problems of access and equity. But other vaccination campaigns might point us in the right direction.

DALL-E drew laughs for creating images of a daikon radish in a tutu. But it builds on an important advance in computer vision with serious applications.

The storied outdoor brand has introduced a new trail running shoe with speedy—and controversial—carbon-fiber plates in the soles.

And getting rid of it will take a lot of work.

The company's latest subscription product combines outdoor fitness with podcasting, though you'll need an Apple Watch to enjoy it.

Like its spiritual predecessor, Amazon’s new show is full of secrets. Unlike it, the series doesn’t get bogged down in solving mysteries.

This scenario is very similar to a classic physics problem—but with more Martian armor.

The flagship (and expensive) Elevate has rotating drivers for when you play Dolby Atmos-supported movies or shows.

The studies are in, and for many patients convalescent plasma should be out. So why do doctors having such a hard time letting go?

Machine learning programs trained with patients’ own reports find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.

Scientists find that cyanobacteria cause sediments on glaciers to clump, thus absorbing more sunlight. It's not great news for fans of lower sea levels.

The country has turned inward more than ever, leaving the true impact of the pandemic a mystery.

Three-dimensional computer simulations have solved the mystery of why doomed stars explode at all.

Zombie versions of Adobe’s troubled software can still cause problems in systems around the world.

Plus: A security company creeper, Biden’s cyberteam, and the rest of this week’s security news.

The line between browsers and password managers is blurring.