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An undersea cable designed to serve hedge funds and made possible by climate change is bringing speedier internet access for isolated schools in Alaska.

Complaints filed in Europe claim internet companies categorize users based on potentially sensitive browsing habits, and then use those labels to target ads.

Plus: Making public transit work better for women, the government shutdown messes with air traffic control, and more.

As the US government shutdown limped to a temporary end, social media couldn't stop watching the fallout.

The physics of ferromagnetism has long befuddled scientists, but a familiar puzzle is getting them closer to an answer.

JLab's wirefree, fully wireless earbuds sound fantastic and are cheap, too. They cost less than $50.

Everything's cute and cuddly until someone gets trampled by a feral pig.

Being an astronaut is mentally and physically grueling—which is why people with disabilities, who adapt to challenges every day, are perfect fits.

The sudden fall of Facebook sharing has led to the rise of something else: private messaging.

Plus, Saturn’s awesome—and useful!—rings.

Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news.

The Amazon founder spent his summers reading Asimov and has named pets and companies after 'Star Trek' characters.

This year's Crystal Cabin nominees offer new ways to make the most of precious space.

Now is a great time to pick up these Android phones, robot vacuums, videogames, and more.

Dominique McLean has been winning fighting-game tournaments since his early teens—but now SonicFox, as he's known, has turned a knack into a dynasty.

Network effects dictate how one flight delay ripples out, but our air traffic system is so complex that scientists still grapple with how it all works.

The shutdown will have longterm effects, likely pushing aging air traffic controllers to retire and slowing the training of their replacements.

Facebook's effort to combine its major chat platforms could create minefields for users who rely on end-to-end encryption.

YouTube wants to remove videos promoting conspiracy theories and other false claims from recommendations, but that’s easier said than done.

Swimmers (and triathletes) can't monitor their hydration as easily as other athletes do, but a new underwater sweat sensor offers a way.

When it comes to delivery robots, design is almost as important as function. Matt Simon and Arielle Pardes discuss Amazon’s new robot, Scout, on this week’s podcast.

The group behind the software program that conquered the board game Go beat a world champion at real-time-strategy videogame StarCraft II.

The indictment of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone allegedly sheds new light on where the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks intersected.

In the trailer for *Spider-Man: Far From Home*, the villain Mysterio appears to form a giant monster out of water. Let's calculate how much power that would take.

Photographer Daniel Szalai uncovers the intensely regulated production of Novogen Whites, premier eggs used to test new vaccines.

The gaming device has always had fans, but Switch last month beat out Xbox and PlayStation, selling more than any other console in December this generation.

The second phone from the gaming hardware brand almost reaches the next level, but not quite.

The number of EVs on American roads is likely to triple in the next few years. Some places have more prep work to do than others.

To get the bottom of how screens affect our mental health, we need to demand a lot more of the tech giants who possess our data.

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues.

In a speech at Davos, financier and philanthropist George Soros warned of the dangers of combining government and corporate AI efforts.

A remake of the 1998 zombie thriller finds its tension in scarcity—and ever-more-powerful undead enemies.

The weed killer dicamba is emerging as a big culprit in the mass die-off of bees.

It could be technical issues or the government blocking Microsoft's search engine. Regardless, the service is back online.

CEO Sundar Pichai pledged to support workers who walk out, but his lawyers say that employees shouldn't be allowed to use company email to organize.

Opinion: The apocalyptic clock remains fixed at two minutes to midnight—as close as we've ever been to catastrophe. That's not close enough.

The streaming service drops (some) prices as Netflix increases its own. Also, there's a 'Riverdale' spinoff and new music on the way.

On the Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, conservationists scramble to destroy every last invasive rodent before the ecosystem descends into chaos.

The docs show a festival that lived and died by social media.

If you don't need a lot of bells and whistles (or Wi-Fi), this reliable, gorgeous baby monitor is a great option.

Google’s proposal would render some ad blockers and other tools ineffective, forcing developers to make changes.

They’d be difficult to engineer, and expensive to boot. But they’re part of the company’s master plan.

Automation may create as many jobs as it destroys, a new study finds, but men, younger folks, and minorities hold positions that are particularly vulnerable.

At the seventh annual iteration of the convention, fans paid homage to favorites from Sailor Moon to 'Coming to America'’s Prince Akeem.

The streaming firm leaves the Internet Association, a tech industry group, and joins the MPAA, underscoring its growth as a content creator.

The company's new six-wheeled delivery bot is built to ferry Prime packages.

Three tech giants, including Microsoft, sponsored a libertarian conference that included attacks on the science of climate change.

The company is one of the partners in Uber's bid to fly the skies.

In separate incidents, hackers exploit poor password hygiene to terrify camera owners.

The social network announced a policy change to allow for removing entire groups of fraudulent pages at once—even when they all haven't broken the rules.