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We dug through this weekend's sales to find the best deals on everything from a stylish hatchet to *Spider-Man* on PS4.

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.

The Surveillance Detection Scout can track license plates and faces near your Tesla—with all the privacy concerns that implies.

A leading mayoral candidate proposes eliminating fares on buses and light rail. Free rides are unusual in the US, but more common overseas.

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Some kids play in a band after school. Bill Demirkapi hacked two education software giants.

How do mantises see in 3D? Researchers find out by gluing tiny 3D glasses to a mantis' face and showing the insect movies.

Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes.

HarmonyOS is the very model of a modern operating system. It's also nowhere near ready for smartphones.

Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon.

Can magnets really just demagnetize suddenly and fall off a fridge? Yes—sort of, though the show doesn't quite nail it.

Be warned, though: Street snowboarding is not for the faint of heart.

Also: 'Duck Tales: Remastered' just disappeared from online storefronts with no explanation.

Opinion: Silencing forums that spread mass violence can also silence the marginalized

Video replay tech, known as VAR, is taking over soccer. Now the data is in: It's changing the game in controversial ways, and fans aren't totally sold.

Jason Del Rey, host of Land of the Giants, a new podcast all about Amazon, joins the Gadget Lab to talk about the company’s quest for world domination.

We have to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. That alone won’t fix the mess we’ve made.

After years of promise, virtual reality gets some much-needed clinical validation as a surgical training tool.

At Defcon this week, security researcher Mike Davis will show how he can pick the lock of an ATM safe in no time, thanks to its electric leaks.

DC Comics wants to block a proposed trademark for the Algorithmic Justice League, brainchild of an MIT researcher.

Apple Pay itself is safe. But the way websites implement it can cause serious problems.

Both continue to record big losses, but executives at the companies hinted in recent calls that they are trying to cut back on discounts, and subtly raise prices.

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The company’s sometimes rocky relationship with security researchers just got a whole lot smoother.

Avaya patched a problem hackers could exploit in phones. But the bad code never went away.

The adventure game gives one of Shakespeare's most tragic characters the story she deserves.

Why throw a bunch of junk traffic at a service, when all it takes to stall it out is just a few bytes?

There's not enough land to feed everyone on Earth without ruining the climate, a new IPCC report shows. Gene-edited crops could help reduce agriculture's footprint.

Sleeping astronauts look like strapped-in zombies surrounded by whirring machines and always-on lights. But for Mike Massimino, it might have been the best sleep of his life.

The series proves Netflix sees a future in martial arts action shows.

Activision Blizzard and major publishers will also boost transparency for players.

Also, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going to Netflix, and Taika Waititi has a secret film in the works.

Germany's Continental, the world's fourth-largest auto-parts maker, says it will stop investing in parts for internal combustion engines.

It takes a lot of effort, research, and efficiency to manipulate people online and influence their behavior in the real world. Silicon Valley has it down to a science.

From camp chairs to three-season tents, snag these deals while there's still plenty of summer left.

A new approach to training artificial intelligence algorithms involves paying people to submit medical data, and storing it in a blockchain-protected system.

A new IPCC report is clear: If we can’t figure out how to feed our species more sustainably, climate change will accelerate and make it harder to grow food.

Cutting out fossil fuels, which the IPCC has called for repeatedly, isn’t enough—we as a species need to fundamentally transform our relationship with the land.

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One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees.

The big phablet Note is now joined by a smaller, regular-size version of the Note handset. And there's a 5G version on the way too.

One researcher's discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing's cybersecurity.

RSA encryption has been around for decades. Unfortunately, so have bad implementations that leave it less secure.

Congress clarified last year that the CDC can use its budget for gun research, after decades of effectively banning it. But Democrats are still fighting to get actual funding approved.

Sure, Captain America and Thanos (and their superpowers) break some laws of physics. But let's see if they obey the momentum principle in *Avengers: Endgame*.

The senator and presidential candidate wants to offer $85 billion in grants to nonprofits and municipalities to bring the internet to underserved areas.

President Trump is accusing China of currency manipulation in the ongoing trade war—a cheaper yuan could erase the impact of US tariffs.

From taking inspectors hostage to making stuff up, generic drug makers can try to look like they were following the regulations while actually subverting them.