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Despite the astonishing size of Wallace's giant bee, the species was lost to science for 40 years. This is the story of its dramatic rediscovery.

The less we touch our food, the further we get away from its significance.

At the same time, I found a better way to make a point.

A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one. But it raises civil liberties concerns that have largely been dropped from the border debate.

Microsoft executives have urged lawmakers to set restrictions on the technology, but the company is opposing a Washington state bill that would do just that.

Samsung's S10 line may have impeccably beautiful displays, but previous-gen Galaxy phones—and other Android options—deliver the goods for less.

New reports say that Robert Mueller will be "wrapping up" his investigation soon. Here's what that might actually mean.

The brand-new Galaxy S10 line, Galaxy Buds, and—wait—does that phone fold in half?!

Here’s what it means when your phone says it’s using 4G, LTE, or even 5GE technology, or why you can’t make a call when you have five bars.

It's finally here, and it'll cost you $1,980.

Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren't using the Facebook app.

Samsung’s new flagship phone can be unlocked with an in-display fingerprint sensor, and has its own neural processing unit.

A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine.

This essential tool lets you measure the electric current and voltage of a circuit. Here's what you need to know to use it correctly.

An infusion of cash is kicking off the next set of gravitational wave detectors, which will help physicists map the universe in richer detail.

Join us for the 10th birthday party of Samsung's Galaxy phone.

Dull tours of supermarkets and mundane shots on YouTube and Instagram are warm and relatable—and also push back against the envy industry.

China is on track to deploy high-capacity fiber-optic cable across much of Eurasia and lock out American companies. The US sorely needs a way to compete.

The probe with the famous name may soon have a new claim to fame, by crossing the Arctic Ocean on the longest underwater robot journey yet.

The CEO says his Autopilot system will be "feature-complete" this year, and ready to ferry snoozing passengers by the end of next year.

The automaker's new feature taps into light timing data to let drivers ride the “green wave” and breeze through town.

The final two shows of the streaming service's Marvel partnership got the axe.

Neil Burnell's photographs of Wistman's Wood in Devon, England evoke comparisons to 'Star Wars' and 'The Lord of the Rings'.

The VR-1, from Finnish company Varjo, isn't exactly cheap, but its resolution is so high that many companies are eager to get it.

The National Weather Service will soon introduce a new forecasting model, but meteorologists are saying it's worse than its predecessor.

We know you would never leave your child unattended in the car. But if you did, this seat would tell you—over and over again.

We should not be creating conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates.

A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours.

The assumption goes that lab-grown meat will drastically reduce emissions of beef production. But you know what they say about assumptions.

Sharks are renowned for their wound healing, lifespans of 70-odd years, and low rates of cancer. Their genes could reveal their superpowers.

Nuking a grape produces sparks of plasma, as plenty of YouTube videos document. Now physicists think they can explain how that energy builds up.

That's the rumor. It sounds possible—but also kinda hokey.

With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.

Corny? Maybe. But sharing our characters' journey in games like Kingdom Hearts 3 is prelude to a world in which virtual and real inextricably coexist.

We found the best tech bargains for the long holiday weekend from Apple, Google, Amazon, Dyson, and more.

Rich Benoit stumps for the right-to-repair movement, pushing uncooperative manufacturers to make it easier for owners to fix stuff themselves.

Using data scraping, network analysis, and machine learning, the Science Fiction Concept Corpus includes more than 2,600 books written since 1900. Here's what we found.

More than a century later, the quaint term is back as a basis for long-­overdue safety standards in autonomous vehicles.

Now, in a perversion of the Time Stone worthy of Thanos, *Captain Marvel* is coming out the first week of March. March! Great Gregorian gods, why?

With its pioneering mesh support, ingenious tilt mechanism, and conspicuously engineered design, the "dotcom throne" has survived and thrived.

While the eye is superior at perceiving sizes and ratios, the ear is better at detecting patterns that occur over *time*. Enter: sonification.

Stay safe, warm, stylish, and caffeinated as you Bird.

I was ashamed by my inability to readjust to new grammar. If I didn’t, my failure would exact social costs, registering as unintended dis­respect—or worse, bigotry.

Virtual assistants do their jobs better thanks to Wikidata, which aims to (eventually) represent everything in the universe in a way computers can understand.

Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies keep injecting more and more smarts into our daily tasks. Will we become indistinguishable, or truly free?

A new batch of food-­focused investment firms are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into fast-casual startups—powered by AI and data-mining apps.

The latest version of Redmond's dextrous desktop combines thoughtful design and premium guts to boost your productivity—no matter what you do.

Plus: We bid adieu to the Airbus A380, Amazon makes a move, and we take a tour of the gear that keeps Nascar racers on the oval.

The internet also said "hello, again" to more government shutdown talk last week.

A long-standing mystery in neuroscience is how the brain attaches a timestamp to our memories. Researchers now may have identified a neural mechanism.