Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?

The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That’s about to change.

New consoles mean new titles. Time to strap in and get ready to play.

First of all, you have to stop thinking and kind of become a robot.

Gimmicky message services like Cameo treat goodwill as a friendly contagion, something anyone can catch and spread. Just don’t let the money run out.

On an internet built around excess, lo-fi hip-hop channels have created a community for minimalist escape.

A study finds that algorithms learn to associate words with other words. “Democracy” can equal “stability”—or “chaos.”

The accelerometers give scientists information about whether animals are swimming, walking, running, or even sprinting up a hill.

In The Sims, you can ideally design a whole new life. These modders and designers found the game fell short of that promise, so they're picking up the slack.

The president pledged to defend the truth, but how far can he go without impinging Americans’ rights or undermining his cause?

It started as a way to restrict autocompletes on Shutterstock. Now it grooms search suggestions on Slack and influences Google's artificial intelligence research.

I'm ready for a partner and kids—and if you're a little more mindful while playing, you just might realize something about yourself, too.

Amazon's founder is stepping down to focus on other projects, like the Bezos Earth Fund. Here's what he can do to help fix the mess humans have made of the world.

From secret aspirations to custom graveyards, YouTube creator and transgender artist Juno Birch spills the tea on Sims 4.

Amazon has made a lot of helpful, but also bizarre, stuff during CEO Jeff Bezos’s reign. Here are some of our favorites.

Researchers have found that most calls to disrupt videoconferences originate with the participants, especially in high schools and colleges.

The massively popular game gives players the freedom and autonomy to backstab one another—but also build connections.

The world’s most popular browser is about to make it a lot harder for advertisers to track your online activity.

Internet regulators around the world conflate the two, which strains international relations.

Bloober Team’s newest horror title is a bad deal at $50 but a great way to pass a weekend on Game Pass.

We're all having a tough time right now, but these apps, podcasts, and websites can provide a lifeline.

As emerging mutations threaten the progress made against the pandemic, scientists and regulators are racing to figure out a process for updating shots.

A federal office that collects outbreak data, models epidemics, and spreads the word to the public could keep the next Covid from being another Covid.

It appears that not only Russia but also China targeted the company, a reminder of the many ways interconnectedness can go wrong.

Andy Jassy, who helped create Amazon Web Services in 2006 and has run it since, will take over as chief executive later this year.

The retail giant agrees to repay almost $62 million in tips to drivers for its Flex delivery service; the company used the money to meet its promised hourly wages.

A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated.

You should never drive in a car with no windows. But if you ever do find yourself in one, you can use physics to get your bearings.

Ren Klyce had to experiment with a lot of new ideas to make David Fincher's movie sound old.

The pandemic, and the resulting supply chain damage, has kicked retail bots into full gear.

In correcting every imperfection and sharpening every blur of his epic fantasy trilogy, Peter Jackson has violated a fundamental law of nature.

Warehouses, factories, and hospitals are deploying more robots, often made by different companies. That can lead to communication problems.

A humble card game, Android: Netrunner has the same roots as Cyberpunk 2077— but went in an entirely different direction.

Motorola's new phones will meet the most minimal of expectations.

Recognizing you while your face is covered is still pretty tough for a computer.

Distribution plans that favor people with time and internet access hurt Black and Latinx people disproportionately.

“So much was happening and yet they had no news. Everything had been compromised.”

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Sex and violence sells, I guess.

In Fake Famous, journalist Nick Bilton sets out to document how easy it is to manufacture celebrity online.

This month's focus is on reporter Mohamad Mosaed, an outspoken critic of the Iranian government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The president hopes electrifying the federal fleet will create jobs and encourage motorists to ditch gas-powered cars. But no automaker is ready yet.

The GT220 have the excellent audio quality the company is known for, and they fit better than most of the competition.

Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This ask the same questions about the internet. Their answers sound nothing alike.

On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.

Unemployment is high, and many pre-pandemic jobs will not return. But the US spends a smaller share of its economy on training than most developed nations.

Claiming that deplatforming racists violates First Amendment rights shows a distorted understanding of how speech, race, and power work online.

To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.

Don't let your resolutions flame out. These tech tools help keep you on track.

Fed up with pandemic-fueled meal-prep anxiety, I asked the Gray Lady to send me a weekly email telling me precisely what to buy and cook. It was the right move.