In the wake of the massacres in Sri Lanka, the government imposed a social media blackout. This may be a turning point in the way we think about how to control big platforms.

An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream.

The Twitter CEO says in an internal email that it's "important to meet heads of state in order to listen, share our principles and our ideas."

The creator of the “time well spent” movement disappeared for a year, but now he’s come back with a new phrase and a plan to stop technology from from destroying free will, creating social anomie, and wrecking democracy.

Social media can provide vital information in a crisis, and there's evidence that blocking it does more harm than good.

The company is no longer in the business of Prestige TV—at least, not single-mindedly. What happens when a platform becomes an industry?

'Killing Eve' and 'Santa Clarita Diet' aren't the first to center female criminals, but their tone and confidence are a post-#MeToo internet-y revelation.

It's easier to follow rules when you know why they exist. In this case, you can calculate the force of an object hitting a melon to see why hard hats matter.

Opinion: Robots seem to be the solution to the last-mile problem. But mechanization will likely come for a different part of the process first.

Across the US, women are being paid to donate their eggs to aspiring parents. The business is well-paid, under-regulated, and little-studied.

The Trump administration wants to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Tech companies and privacy advocates think that’s a bad idea.

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful with who's generating your cryptocurrency keys.

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The smartphone giant has delayed the release of the Samsung Galaxy Fold after early review units of the folding smartphone began malfunctioning.

When you dig into the Mueller report, a lot of important details start to jump out.

Everyone in the Seven Kingdoms is about to make history, for as long as that still exists.

Two employees who helped organize a walkout of thousands of workers say they've either been demoted or been told to drop concerns about ethics.

The special counsel's report exposes the extent to which not just Russia but Donald Trump's own associates grifted the president.

Also, this weekend's box office totals are bleak.

Let's enjoy the planet in all its glories.

The decoding at the core of Inkle Studios' latest is an elegant, simple system, one wrapped in a truly beautiful game.

MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson on why the Westworld dystopia is (hopefully) far off and why you should never use a telepresence robot to tell someone they’re dying.

If you instruct Google Assistant to “talk like a Legend,” it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend.

A explosion of new technologies has companies flooding the auto industry en masse—again.

At a startup run by autonomous vehicle mastermind Sebastian Thrun, the dream of flying cars is starting to become reality. But expect flight delays.

Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous.

Ridership on the city's bus system is plummeting, so the transit agency is redesigning it—with the help of location data from about 5 million cell phones.

Need to rent a car for the day? Take mine. But my bed? I'd rather sell a kidney.

Clip you phone into one of these controllers to play _Fortnite_ and more—with no latency and plenty of joysticking.

Companies use recommendation engines to tell you what to buy, read, and watch. But those algorithms aren’t your friends.

The world's premier traffic-busting app has a plan for when traffic never ever gets better: get us all to share commutes, and become ... friends?

Fully autonomous cars may never arrive. But we'll all benefit from self-driving tech while we wait.

Recently, the business of getting paid to promote a company via your social media has spread pandemic-like.

The emergence of worker-owned apps could save the gig economy from itself.

Where new headsets like the Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Pro really shine is their ability to help us interact more freely with other people.

From a mouse that continuously charges to a luxuriously cushy headset, this desktop gaming equipment will help you unleash your full potential.

A back seat that transforms into a throne, front seats that swivel to face one another—Nissan's IMs concept shows what designers do when tech liberates them.

Genesis shows off an electric two-seater it may never build, Elon Musk takes a step toward a really big tunnel, and Uber gets another $1 billion investment.

Also, 'Game of Thrones' is back, y'all!

Opinion: Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence could predict risks of premature death. But the health care industry needs to consider another risk: unconscious bias in AI.

A decades-long fire in Pennsylvania revealed some unexpected twists in how microbes survive in harsh environments.

Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices.

VR and cannabis might seem like natural complements, but to combine them strips both of their transformative power.

Plus a Martian crater, a nebula in transition, and a glorious cluster.

The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news.

More horror films should have families like theirs in the future.

To escape from under that cumulus cloud of candy-colored chocolate, browse the best Easter tech deals on the Echo Dot, iPad, Garmin Fenix, and more.

Well, a tunnel that passes underneath it, to be more specific. But conservationists have reservations.

A slavery-themed ad for Ancestry.com exposes the awkward relationship between America's darkest history and the current boom in family-tree building.

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