Choosing widgets and designing your own app icons takes time—but it’s worth it to nail that aesthetic.

Some employers are relying on rapid tests to reopen. The outbreak around President Trump shows the shortcomings of that approach.

Twitter has announced new changes to combat misinformation. It should go further by checking and flagging the president's tweets—before they wreak havoc.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

The Hulu comedy riffs on the trope of reliving the same day over and over again.

The next season had already been greenlit—which makes it hard not to wonder if the streaming service is rethinking its strategy.

Plus: a plan to break up Microsoft, anonymity on the internet, and a baffling balcony address.

The brand’s new Strung technology uses a robot to place thousands of individual threads across a sneaker’s upper.

Using a network of sensors, researchers found that the Los Angeles high-rises most likely to rock in a future quake aren’t downtown.

This week, we gather survival tips from the author of a book about how the always-on lifestyle has driven many of us to the breaking point.

Federal scientists want to study how the virus interacts with wildlife—but they say a Trump appointee is stopping them.

Checking your blood oxygen is a very reasonable addition to Apple’s suite of health features.

Wooing clients over lunch is out. So companies are deploying software to analyze Zoom pitches and make recommendations.

Here’s the psychology and political science behind why the embarrassing presidential and vice presidential debates were so anxiety-inducing.

A performative post-election ban won’t solve anything. But cutting off the platform’s data-driven rage machine will.

Regeneron’s new Covid drug looks good in early trials, and Trump has called it a miracle. That doesn't mean it’s going to work.

Even if the social network's new policies work perfectly, Q followers can still camouflage their activity or move to other platforms.

Internal emails and employee interviews shed new light on what Congress has learned about Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

While it's still far more common on PCs, mobile ransomware has undergone a worrying evolution, new research shows.

No one should be latching on to a 15-year-old's speculations about the White House Covid-19 outbreak.

To answer this question, let's take a look at something called the Three-Body Problem.

Thinking of buying a Sony console for the first time or upgrading? Here’s exactly what you can expect.

My backlog is huge, and I'll bet yours is too. Here's how I actually get through it, without sucking the fun out of playing.

The Osmo Mobile 4 smooths out your videos and makes it easier to get cinematic pans and sweeping shots.

In all eras, we’ve tried—and mostly failed—to police the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable.

Need an excuse to pick up that shiny mechanical keyboard or button-laden gaming mouse? Look no further, we can help.

When I was bedridden, video games kept my mind off the pain and anxiety—and kept me going.

When he was VP, Biden helped turn the 2008 financial crisis into an era of environmental funding. Here’s what he could do if he gets another shot.

The company, launched by Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey, is building software to connect multiple Air Force systems—allowing officers to act more quickly.

On Instagram and Facebook, members of a wonderfully obsessive community organize every aspect of their lives—through pandemics and protests—with binders and stickers.

A false report on Twitter exploded into a call to arms. Then a bus, carrying a family and two dogs, rolled into a remote Northwestern town.

As soon as an insect landed on the vice president's head Wednesday, Twitter collectively lost its mind.

Tonight marks the only time that Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will debate each other during the campaign.

Covid-19 infects people in “bursts” like the one at the White House, and this administration hasn’t just made that easier—it made it inevitable.

After brute-forcing its way to dominance in so many industries, the tech leviathan may finally have met its match.

The latest Gboard feature needs to know as much as possible about your digital life to work—but doesn't share that data with Google.

The media knows it screwed up in 2016 with John Podesta. Here’s how it should do better in the final weeks of the 2020 race.

More potential young voters are on social media than enrolled in college full time.

From Donald Trump to Lindsey Graham, Republican leaders' attacks on online content moderation are baseless—and authoritarian.

Looking to level up? The excellent recipes in this book can help you unlock the tech-assisted, and often tricky, technique.

A new report, cowritten by a workers union and an advocacy group, says that the company has limited fiber upgrades to wealthier areas.

California’s privacy law says businesses must respect universal opt-outs. Now the technology finally exists to put that to the test.

Dozens of case reports have hinted that the coronavirus might trigger the onset of diabetes in people with no history of the disease.

One simple tool gives you the power to build your own custom time-saving keyboard shortcuts. Here's how to set it up and get through that drudgework faster.

A report by a House subcommittee takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.

The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well.

It’s called A Holly Dolly Christmas.

Blumhouse’s new sci-fi thriller is goofy, soapy fun.

This folding electric bike will get you from A to B without fuss, and it’ll fit in the tiniest apartments.

Only a fraction of them believe the conspiracy theory’s most outlandish claims, according to new polling.