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.

This year's nominees push the form to its limits or apply a new frame entirely, heralding a golden age for such works.

Taking a page from film noir spycraft, a team of researchers found a way to photograph an object while pointing a camera in the opposite direction.

The Apple CEO wants to bring data brokers out of the shadows. Don't expect them to go quietly.

Using a small domino to topple a taller one, you could in theory take down a domino the size of a skyscraper. Here's how it would work.

On Tuesday, the Amazon founder's space company will send a rocket aloft carrying nine NASA payloads on a suborbital flight.

Way more men than women are taking LA's Expo line, and new research helps explain why.

Researchers are beginning to explore how we might tweak wastewater treatment to capture CO2 instead of emitting it, slowing the ravages of climate change.

Thanks to the Super Bowl, every Sonos TV speaker for your home theater is discounted right now, including the Playbar, Playbase, Beam, and Sub.

The all-seeing Amazon, Google, and Facebook have every incentive to help the national security state undermine privacy, free speech, and democracy. We’ve read this book before.

Pop-out cameras! Foldable displays! Hole-punched notches! This year, phone-makers are swinging for the fences.

The French data regulator fines Google $57 million for not properly gaining user permission to personalize ads.

Today's svelte laptops, smartphones, and tablets may look nothing like the clunky machines of yesterday, but they owe them everything.

In a new filing, the US Department of Labor says Oracle underpaid women and minorities at its headquarters complex by $400 million over four years.

When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.

Unprecedented Oscar nods for Netflix and Hulu, 'American Gods' returns, and more of the week's top culture news

Fender's new American Acoustasonic Telecaster has a unique digital system onboard that gives it a tremendously varied sonic palette.

Visually impaired creators are a lifeline for those who share their disability—and they’re educating and making allies of sighted people along the way.

The deluge of notifications. The crowded list of channels. If it's all too much, follow our guide to Slack happiness.

It's peak flu season, and almost 10 million people across the US have already been sickened by the virus.

A new study finds that male and female job seekers need different kinds of peer networks to get ahead.