It's a lot to ask of one episode, but here's what should happen.

Google has been known to fire employees for leaking company information. But it hasn't investigated several recent high-profile leaks.

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A Florida man was killed March 1 when his Tesla collided with a tractor trailer that was crossing its path. A government report says the Autopilot feature was activated.

Opinion: As online extremism migrates to real-world violence, some suggest letting law enforcement intercept encrypted messages. But that’s a dangerous proposition.

A philosophy professor explains that it all comes down to the machinations of two very different types of writers: plotters and pantsers.

The next season comes to Netflix on June 5. Also, Fox has a new show about a wicked Alexa device.

Charges against 10 men across Eastern Europe associated with the Goznym malware crew reveal global law enforcement's reach—and its limits.

Working entirely in-camera, Christoffer Relander juxtaposes neon-lit street scenes with pristine wilderness.

The New Balance 5280 shoe is designed to deliver top performance in a particular type of competitive event: a high-speed, one-mile road race.

Dyson's V11 Torque Drive and Animal cordless vacuums will plow through your home's dust bunnies like Furiosa through a pack of hapless War Boys.

Levels of heat-trapping methane are rising faster than climate experts anticipated, triggering intense debate about why it's happening.

Fearing isolation in case of disaster, the Blue Lake Rancheria teamed with researchers to develop a one-of-a-kind microgrid. Here's how they did it.

An industry group representing Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple, urged EU policymakers not to draw "red lines" around specific uses of AI.

Scientists are trying to crack the code of how smell works—and create robots that can sniff out the world's secrets like a dog.

There will never be another show like it again.

The latest aircraft vying for a piece of the not-quite-realized aeromobility space takes a big step toward becoming a reality.

The first satellites of Elon Musk's mega-constellation Starlink are heading to space, but the satellite internet project faces tough economics on Earth.

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FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a set of rules to combat robocalls. Don't get your hopes up quite yet.

The German automaker plans 70 electric models by 2028. So it's building a gigafactory to ensure it has enough batteries.

The new shooter from Avalanche Studios and id Software attempts to hybridize two disparate game design approaches—and neither of them fully work.

Google will replace any Titan BLE branded security key, after disclosing that a nearby attacker could use it to compromise your accounts.

Advertisers say that Google makes it far too easy to accidentally run ads in countries under US sanctions like Iran, North Korea, or Syria.

Fans are setting their Charles-branded makeup on fire, but his feud with Westbrook is about public loyalties—not business.

A very bad vulnerability in Windows XP could have serious ramifications, even with a patch.

A better understanding of the acoustics of screaming could help scientists understand how and why humans shriek—and add a new dimension to the surveillance state!

Astro's pro controller works wonderfully on PC, but lacks basic functionality on PS4.

In the sharing versus ownership debate, this new electric scooter makes a convincing argument for buying one.

A new report documents changes to government websites—some subtle, some sweeping—that researchers argue undermine the Affordable Care Act.

An experiment with a paperclip reveals both its elastic and plastic properties, a distinction that's key to how any material compresses or deforms.

The space agency's new budget amendment has been called a "down payment" on what will be needed in future years to fund the program.

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Other cities, including Oakland, and Somerville, Massachusetts, are also considering bans on the technology as a threat to civil liberties.

Whether or not you've heard of VSCO, your iPhone snapshots could benefit from their photography science.

Two different groups of researchers found another speculative execution attack that can steal all the data a CPU touches.

OnePlus delivers a notchless, all-screen phone with a pop-up camera. But should you buy it?

All it took to compromise a smartphone was a single phone call over WhatsApp. The user didn't even have to pick up the phone.

The retail giant needs more third-party delivery partners to bring packages to your door.

Driving a tram into a ball such that it knocks down pins—tram bowling, naturally—raises some physics questions: What does the speed of the ball depend on? What's its change in momentum?

The carmaker's new climate plan is bold—for a company. But it falls short of recommended emissions cuts and shows the limits of corporate self-policing.

We don't think much about where our waste goes, but the history of what we do with poop is also the history of how we grow food.

Microsoft announced plans to use the bitcoin blockchain to create a "digital identity" that could be used to access sites and apps across the internet.

We reached out to a bunch of experts to ask them about the tools they love. Here’s what we heard back.

After I was digitally shamed on Twitter, I posted my phone number. What I got in return was the kindness of strangers.

I came for the hostility, then the social network offered me something I never expected.

Anti-abortion laws lean on the heartbeat as a defining moment of aliveness. But at six weeks, it indicates little more than cells and electrical activity.

Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.

The still-to-be-named product will be a part of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 line of laptops.

The National Security Council has gained enormous influence over the last few decades—thanks in no small part to better tech.