Believe it or not, the robocall crisis has stabilized. But like email spam, it's never going to go away entirely.

With its insistence on fairness, neutrality, and community consensus, the online storehouse of knowledge is a model for a more perfect union.

The mellifluously named Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect is tearing an asteroid apart, and it could also save the Earth from asteroid strikes.

Opinion: The average big construction project is overdue and over budget. A dose of automation could help.

Changeaview.com, the new home for the 700,000-member discussion group, adds custom features that go beyond Reddit's capabilities.

It doesn't sound like the worst idea...

The social network says it shows users the most “relevant” ads, but a new study suggests the system perpetuates bias.

Plus: Mar-a-Lago mishaps, Airbnb's creepy camera problem, tax-season phishing scams, and more.

So Twitter's a hellsite. Now what?

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Two passports, three voice recorders, one gas mask: How journalist Kenneth R. Rosen reports his stories from conflict zones in the Middle East.

Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in selling cloud services to other companies, but its efforts to catch up may be hindered by its own ethics policies.

It's on track to open at $200-250 million domestically, clobbering box office buster *The Force Awakens*. But another *Star Wars* movie is on the way.

If climate change ends up coming for your home, you could move inland. Or you could decamp to tessellated platforms floating on the ocean.

As in, he doesn't think kids should play it. Oh, and Snapchat is getting mobile games now, apparently.

Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches.

Google says its planned Dunant cable from Virginia to France will transmit 250 terabits per second, enough to zap the Library of Congress through it three times a second.

A dude jumping on a moving trampoline is a great excuse to dive into the unexpected properties of projectile motion.

When the ethos of eating meets the pathos of puppies, so many tears flow. What there’s considerably less of, though, is science.

Amazon reveals new skills for its voice assistant Alexa, a sign of its growing interest in health care.

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The always-exciting electric carmaker suffers its biggest drop in deliveries yet in the first quarter.

Employees confronted CEO Satya Nadella after weeks of complaints on an internal discussion about lack of advancement and sexual harassment.

Also, the internet is poking a lot of fun at the 'Joker' trailer.

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Electric vehicles consume more energy than gasoline-powered rides during manufacturing. Audi’s new E-tron plant tries to change that.

Chinese developers publish a license aimed at disrupting "996," a 12-hour, six-day work schedule common among startups around the world.

Missoula County, Montana, commissioners are expected to approve a resolution that would require bitcoin mines to offset their energy use with renewables.

To produce a malaria vaccine, technicians have to decapitate and dissect individual mosquitoes. Now they've got help: the mass mosquito guillotine.

Online scammers love to target taxpayers, and their schemes range from posing as the IRS to pushing malware and fake tech support.

An algorithm that rates the quality of embryos better than specialists do is a first step toward making IVF easier for women.

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Firms that contract with Google will have to pay workers $15 an hour and provide health care and parental leave benefits.

A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersecurity risks.

No dark matter? No problem! Two galaxies that appear devoid of the mysterious substance could be strong—if ironic—evidence of its existence.

Opinion: Congress needs to pull the plug and end the authority for the CDR program.

Unusual DNA helped make Lil Bub a cat celebrity. Now that genetic data could improve medical care for cats without millions of Instagram followers.

A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers.

Amazon and Walmart have deals on the standard iPad, and two iPad Pro models.

Why do vehicles coming toward you (and moving away) make that characteristic sound? Let's explore.

A new pocket photo book celebrates one of Great Britain's most iconic landmarks.

Lyft leads an expected wave of big IPOs, from Uber, Pinterest, and others. These firms are stronger than the dotcoms, but that doesn't make them good investments.

Bunnies are now avatars of evil—but what did they ever do to us?

Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.

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Inbox was a great email app until Google killed it Tuesday. Fortunately, there are plenty of others out there.

It's about the hardware, yes. But more and more it's about the AI inside the scarycute dogs and humanoids.

Lego's newest STEM set uses bright colors, friendly shapes, and a simple coding environment to get 11- to 14-year olds into robotics.

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