Meme creators are locking their accounts in a secret ploy to advertisers. But can memes, built to move through the web unhindered, adapt to a walled garden?

As renewable energy picks up and electricity demand drops, it's getting way more expensive for a large part of grid to produce electricity, and that's a problem for everyone.

A study this week got people thinking that infection by *Toxoplasma gondii*, a parasite found in cat poop, could be used to prime people for entrepreneurship. We’ve got some ~~better~~ equally terrible ideas.

Amazon has marketed its Rekognition facial recognition system to law enforcement. But in a new ACLU study, the technology confused 28 members of Congress with publicly available arrest photos.

Accusations of partisan bias come at an inconvenient moment for Twitter, which is trying to clean up its platform and avoid the mistakes of other tech companies.

Self-proclaimed "cartonerd" Ken Field published a gallery of alternative election maps designed to reveal markedly different stories about the US.

One year in, Airbnb’s mission to expand service in black neighborhoods through a partnership NAACP, still holds tremendous potential—but it’s just getting started

In its heyday, the spa town of Tskaltubo drew more than 100,000 visitors each year. Today, Georgians displaced by the Abkhazian conflict call it home.

Facing a franchise known for futuristic gadgets, our mission was to consult experts to find out what’s achievable and what’s still, you know, impossible.

It's because of something called apparent weight, and you can calculate it for yourself.

Presto rethinks the staid slow-cooker with a fun and portable design.

This smart soundbar is a Trojan horse for Amazon’s popular voice assistant.

Understanding dirty pain—the kind of cortisol-spiking agony that comes coupled with blame and indignation—is a small but meaningful step in reducing suffering, especially our own.

Straws may not be the worst type of litter. But they are remarkably good at escaping from the waste stream and into the wild.

Instead of relying on a single spinning laser, the prism-based technology for self-driving cars takes advantage of how wavelengths of light arrange themselves.

An epic riddle. An eccentric storyteller. A missing person. When a man vanishes in the wilderness, his family takes to the internet to find him.

Our four-day celebration in San Francisco is going to feature some of the biggest names in tech, from Apple’s Jony Ive to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Facebook shares fell 20 percent after it said revenue growth would slow and it would spend additional billions per year to tackle fake news and other concerns.

Qualcomm planned to acquire NXP for $38 billion in an attempt to reduce its reliance on phones. China's refusal to approve the deal is the latest salvo in ongoing trade wars.

Court says crops using new gene-editing tools should be regulated just like older GMOs.

Susan Gerbic's team of over 100 editors are responsible for some of Wikipedia’s most trafficked pages about UFOs and other pseudoscience.

Netflix’s foray into sci-fi has resulted in a now-common sight: its competitors following suit. Hulu's new show is only the first King-sized salvo.

"Going from zero bodies of water to one is a big change, for sure, but the full extent of this discovery depends on what we find next."

Microsoft prioritizes accessibility with an innovative package design for its new Xbox controller for disabled gamers.

A budget robot vacuum that can get around, but doesn’t do much else.

An itch to build a better flashlight birthed a brilliant companion for cops and outdoorsy types alike.

To see how Cruise pulled off the gut-twisting corkscrew dive, we went to Airbus' helicopter flight school for our own training time.

Nearly a year after hackers stole the personal data of 147 million people from Equifax, the company details how it's overhauling security.

Take a look inside the new manufacturing plant for Moderna Therapeutics, the Boston area-based biotech valued at $7 billion.

Hue. Saturation. Luminance. Sparkle. Fixing a door ding is about way more than color. (Also: Why the sky is blue and clouds are white.)

An app for Glass aimed at factory workers can understand spoken language and respond with oral responses. Next up: image recognition.

The congressman from the heart of tech-land says Democrats must appeal to voters on voters' self-interest.

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology loved what they heard from Uber, but experts wonder if flying taxis are really ready for takeoff.

The new program will put two safety drivers in each car, and the company will deploy a system that watches to see if they’re actually paying attention.

The data was anonymized, but academics are still concerned about the ethics of the analysis.

"I Admit" is a brazen and sickening piece of pop art—and Black Twitter spared no time in calling out its hypocrisy.

The highly engineered food with GM yeast finally makes its way through an FDA maze. Not everyone is jazzed, though.

As Facebook prepares to report its most recent financial results, investors are looking past the company's plan to spend more money, which could dent profits.

The move is part a wider push to make Twitter “healthier,” which includes ridding the platform of spam and abuse.

The company is slated to loft three payloads in just 12 days with its new and improved Falcon 9 rocket.

The world's biggest browser now lets you know when you're visiting an unencrypted site.

Apple acknowledges its newest laptops have been suffering from heat-related performance issues. The company also says a fix is on the way.

A new report shows shared electric scooters are a valued way of getting around for a diverse swath of city folk, including women and low-income populations.

Scores of nuclear startups are aiming to solve the problems that plague nuclear power.

ACDC and Lamb's Bread and Ghost OG, oh my: Researchers compare the genetics of cannabis strains and find ... irregularities.

Using Instagram's "creative tools" for Stories, you can flaunt your personality and tell a story all your own.

How the anti-government tech-libertarianism of John Perry Barlow gave way to enthusiasm for wealth redistribution and a Berniecrat named Ro Khanna.

The FISA court's secrecy and complexity make it a perfect punching bag for Trump and his defenders.

The convention has taken on a new subtext than it has in previous years—and that's probably for the best.

Facebook is caught between the legal definition of "hate speech" and the more expansive common understanding of the term.