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A few small glitches marred an otherwise stellar year as SpaceX honed its reusable rocket technology.

From Donald Trump to Russian hackers, these are the most dangerous characters we've been watching online in 2018.

After the mania comes the grind.

We’re paying homage to the year’s highlights, especially the InSight Mars landing.

Syfy's new series doesn't reflect the influence of the man who wrote the novella on which it's based.

The upsides of a downgrade.

The V-22 Osprey-inspired aircraft, bidding to replace the Army's Black Hawk helicopter, has spent the past 12 months bagging a series of milestones.

In 2018, the state reimposed net neutrality, established a privacy regime, and set bot rules. Will the moves splinter the net, or will others follow?

Pour one out for this year's tech casualties.

Look back on the biggest moments in robotics in 2018, from the continued ascendance of SpotMini to the rapid rise and fall of the home robot.

This year, our readers remained obsessed with self-driving and electric cars—and one of the most famous men making them.

Progress on AI-generated visuals offers clues on how images, video, and art could power new forms of entertainment and disinformation.

This year revealed consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their information online.

The intrepid spacecraft has traveled 13 years and 4 billion miles to glimpse Ultima Thule, a cold, dark world at the fringes of our solar system.

'Bandersnatch', which hits the streaming service today, is Netflix's first salvo in a new era of storytelling.

It runs on an endless shockwave, but, sadly, it’s still in the prototype stage.

This year saw the most devastating cyberattack in history, a gang of teen hackers, and so much Mueller news.

The more smart devices that sell, the more compelling the AI technology becomes. But the virtual assistants inside still stumble.

From Marvel cancellations to 'Friends' scares, this year was just the beginning of a long, grueling siege.

In factories across the world, machines are beginning to work more intimately with humans without sending them to the unemployment line—or the grave.

Lawmakers spend the better part of 2018 talking tough to tech companies. Now the pressure is on for Congress to act.

Known as the Lockerbie bombing, in December 1988 a bomb downed a Pan Am jet, leaving 270 dead. It was the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists. As the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Robert Mueller oversaw the case. And for him, it was personal.

Life is stressful. And Amazon's voice assistant Alexa is a very convenient scapegoat.

The dealers didn’t get it, neither did most of the public. But people who loved them, really loved them.

What will happen on with sites like Twitch in 2019? Hard to say—but we have some ideas.

Feast your mind on stories about brain-eating amoebas, the science of wildfires, and a criminal twist to the genetics revolution.

Who needs a warm tropical beach when you can enjoy a hole in the ice? Definitely not the Finns.

Hustlers have always tried to get over on the powerless—in 2018, though, the tables began to turn.

Tech companies, democratic governments, and civil society need to work together to fight back against growing surveillance and censorship online.

Geneology is about to send a lot more people to jail.

Scientists studying rare creatures face a tricky conundrum—how to publicize their research without launching their subjects into the exotic wildlife trade.

The internet has been awash with misinformation for years, but researchers are finally realizing it's hard to quantify the scope of its impact.

If you’re looking for deals or unwrapped some gift cards this season, there are plenty of killer year-end sales happening.

Photographer Reuben Wu devised a creative way to shoot Peru's Pastoruri glacier at night.

Readers dived into a feminist reading of Elizabeth Holmes' downfall, a story about Silicon Valley's hidden caste system, and the perplexing case of a deadly yeast.

From 'Homecoming' to Teddy Perkins to "take me to the hole!" we've rounded up all of the year's biggest small-screen memories.

Autonomous vehicles are already on the road. Whether they're "here" depends on where you are.

Snuggle up with your favorite display technology and ignite your neurons with these recommended science books from 2018.

Elizabeth Root Blackmer specializes in macro photography of natural phenomena too small for us to usually notice.

A review of the Air Fryer, a three-month sojourn in Bing, and a user's guide to how to disable throttling on an iPhone all topped this year's list.

Astronauts on NASA's Apollo 8 mission snapped the first photos of Earth from space, forever changing how we see our place in the universe.

2018 saw the emergence of female artists whose online presence managed to be savvy without being sentimental, sensitive but still cynical.

Move over, ransomware. Cryptojacking is officially the scourge of the internet.

Low-paid workers at Marriott hotels, in part, protested encroaching automation—finding unexpected common cause with some well-paid engineers across tech.

Look past the CEO's antics, and it's clear the automaker spent the year clearing major, long-standing hurdles.

Facebook’s business model has always been to monetize user data. So why are we so shocked to learn how they did it?

Microsoft bought GitHub. IBM bought Red Hat. Those and other deals show how central open source software has become to companies big and small.

Netflix gets real about its programming, MoviePass struggles, and, of course, Yanny vs. Laurel divides the internet.

From 'Avengers' to 'Roma' it was an engrossing, and emotional, year at the multiplex.