A new AAA report finds that when cars with active safety features like automatic emergency braking do crash, they can cost thousands of dollars to fix.

Netflix says it does not track users' race or ethnicity. But in customizing promotions based on users' past viewing history, it can achieve a similar effect.

Elon Musk's electric car company is pulling out of Model 3 production hell, and starting to make money.

The latest big lawsuit regarding climate change alleges the oil and gas giant defrauded investors by misrepresenting the climate-related risks to its business.

News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online.

It's Halloween! Time to stay in, eat someone else's candy, and fire up some horror classics.

Devices that might be explosives targeting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and more all are caught before reaching their final destinations. Here's how.

A new class of robots, called FlyCroTugs, can lift objects 40 times their weight, using design ideas borrowed from wasps and geckos.

New research finds Nicaraguans and Hondurans are less likely to choose to crash into fit people, and those from Japan or Indonesia would rather spare the lawful. But developers say the moral quandary just isn’t very helpful.

The synthetic biology company has opened a new foundry to churn out mammal cells, first for drug development, and later to build potentially anything at all.

A leaked memo that proposes to eliminate protections for transgender individuals, in part by relying on genetic testing, is deeply problematic.

It's Halloween! Time to stay in, eat someone else's candy, and fire up some horror classics.

These "boda-boda" drivers teamed up with a photographer and fashion designer to complete their signature looks.

A new breed of start-ups aim to make a pile of money from doing good, assisted by thought leaders, foundations, and the guileless public.

Children's car seats are heavy, bulky, and potentially toxic. Wayb wants to fix that.

Netlify lets customers tap multiple cloud computing providers, and wants to connect cloud services to static webpages.

Amid concerns over how much data the company collects, Google will make it easier to understand exactly what it knows about you.

Wondering why someone was flying the decades-old T-6 Texan that crash landed in Agoura Hills? Simply put, it's a blast.

A migrant caravan traveling through Mexico is the latest news event to be weaponized online.

The NBA star's move to Los Angeles places his late-career basketball prospects squarely behind his cultural legacy.

Like so many other internet misdeeds, the notorious Triton malware appears to have originated in Moscow.

The company has spent the equivalent of $12 million on political and issues ads across Facebook and Instagram since May, more than politicians like Beto O'Rourke and Donald Trump.

Today Facebook is revealing its Messenger app's redesign, which has a bubbly vibe that a former intern dreamed up at his parents' house.

By partnering with Reddit, Patreon hopes it can convert more Redditors into patrons, helping them discover and support creators on the platform.

People generate about 70 pounds of textile trash a year, which then sits in landfills for centuries. A new fiber would decompose much, much faster.

Win or lose, you'll know before anyone else.

Even in a "Kids" profile violent content can show up when trailers autoplay. But there are ways to make it disappear.

At our recent 25th-birthday celebration, we convened a who's-who of approachable machines for the friendliest robot uprising imaginable.

These are the three key things that any person should know about the nature of science.

North think its $999 Focals are the anti-Google Glass. But can it convince people to wear them?

Getting the rest of the world online turns out to be harder than the UN anticipated, despite advances like mobile internet. Blame the patriarchy.

You don't have to spend six figures—or even buy a shiny new car—to have a lot of fun with a battery.

To call hyperinflation strictly an economic problem is to overlook its wrenching cultural implications and a general collapse in a system of values.

This isn't the way product releases should happen: quarter-­baked cookie dough that’s, what, just gonna finish cooking outside the oven?

The upcoming PlayStation 4 game builds on Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s past work to get you as far out of your head—and as absorbed into the experience—as possible.

Artificial intelligence could be the ultimate authoritarian tool. But one thing's for sure: Charging into an AI arms race against China is a huge mistake.

Instead of butane heat sources, Bodum’s Mocca uses the red-hot glow of its 430-watt halogen Beam Heater to bring the water to just below boiling.

After using an app-powered sous vide wand to cook your Thanksgiving turkey in a temperature-controlled bath, you’ll never go back to roasting.

A $1.50 wager on a "Call of Duty" match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry.

How organizers are using Silicon Valley–style tactics to get people (read: Democrats) registered to vote.

The new lower-priced iPhone XR is a good buy, as long as you don’t mind making a few compromises.

The US may be leading the discoveries in AI—but Chinese entrepreneurs are better at implementing them.

Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost," he writes.

HTC's long-hyped blockchain smartphone is finally on sale—but for now it's still experimental.

The retailer can learn a lot about shoppers' habits from its growing line of cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores.

Turkish Airlines Flight 800 went over Greenland on its way from Panama City to Istanbul, a testament to the power of the jet stream.

Netflix knows what it's doing hiring the master of macabre to tell the story of everyone's favorite puppet-turned-boy.

A new study suggests that microplastics routinely show up in our food—and our digestive tracts.

Algorithms design robot legs tailored to walk on specific surfaces. The results are at once logical, counterintuitive, and bizarre.