The former Google X project is now its own Alphabet company, and just signed its first commercial agreement with Telkom Kenya.

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Trump has denied or downplayed Russia's attempts to influence US democracy three times this week—and that has very real consequences.

New York City’s latest bill is part of a long campaign pitting hoteliers against the home-sharing site. But success in New York is crucial—regardless of the consequences and costs.

Amid frequent customer data exposures, Amazon Web Services is pushing to spot errors and promote access control.

The European Commission ruled that Google had unfairly used its Android operating system to harm competitors and consumers.

Amazon's Prime Day is over, but rivals like Walmart are still holding huge sales on Fitbit, Beats headphones, video games, and more.

Amazon Prime Day 2018 has ended, but there are still some great deals going. We've collected the best post-Prime Day deals, including some from Bose and Fitbit.

Reddit wants to bring its communities closer together. Its solution: throwing it back to real-time chatrooms.

Jeff Bezos may be the richest man of the modern age, but he built his e-commerce empire by playing freely with new ideas—not disrupting swaths of industries

In just 15 years, roughly 4,000 miles of fiber-optic cables in US coastal cities could go underwater.

French artist Guillaume Hebert creates hybrid images that blur the differences between media.

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright's research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he's taking on the the world's biggest platforms before it's too late.

Crypto-developers—ironically, a community devoted to eliminating centralized authority—could use more traditional vetting structures.

Horror sequels, a Momoa-shaped tsunami, and the Spider-Man we've all been waiting for—SDCC may be light this year, but there's plenty to look forward to.

Decades ago, Section 230 gave tech companies sweeping power to police content on their platforms. Now some lawmakers want that power back.

It’s retreated, but the risk of what happens with a grounded iceberg is almost luck of the draw.

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Colorado's Mike Coffman signs a petition to force a vote on a measure to restore the Obama-era rules. Backers still need about 40 more members to sign on.

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Truthbrary.org is the website of Dr. Billy W. Ruddick, a character Cohen plays in Who Is America?, but the conspiracy theories it aggregates are taken from across the web.

Eleven of them behave a lot like Jupiter's other moons, but the twelfth one is weird (in a good way).

The automaker's ReachNow car-sharing service now lets users book rides with pro drivers, putting it in competition with and Uber Black and Lyft Lux.

Some fantastic gear for gamers is on sale for Amazon Prime Day, including consoles, headsets, PCs, accessories, and games.

The comics industry, and its fans, are no longer the underdogs.

A good remix can provide a thrilling encounter with an already fantastic game—and that's what Sega's latest accomplishes with a new gameplay mode.

It took thousands of years for humans to breed a pea-sized fruit into a beautiful beefsteak tomato. Now, with gene editing, scientists can change everything.

You may not have heard of Safe Browsing, but it's made the web more secure for over a decade. Here's its story, from the people who built it.

A new facial recognition tool by RealNetworks aims to keep kids safe in school. But privacy experts fear the unchecked surveillance of kids could go awry.

Inrix's 'Road Rules' platform lets cities compile details about things like stop signs and school zones in a computer-friendly format that any self-driving developer can fold into its software.

FCC Chair Ajit Pai, long seen as supporting the deal, suggests sending it to a judge–often a graveyard for merger proposals.

Workers in Europe, upset by talk of cuts in pay and benefits, plan walkouts during one of the retailer's biggest promotions.

Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio both cast President Trump's appearance in Helsinki as a major setback in the fight against Russian interference in elections around the world.

By refusing to acknowledge Russia's role in election interference, Trump has given it the green light to continue.

The actor has reportedly signed on to join J.J. Abrams' next 'Star Wars' movie.

You can make a physics model that teaches you tons about running.

Roku's new $199 wireless speakers are matched with an optional wireless button you place in another room and use as a voice remote.

Extreme heat already kills more than 100 New Yorkers yearly. That could rise to thousands a year by 2080.

Transmitting data makes steady, low returns. But the telecom giants want a grander life: in high-risk, high-reward, high-margins media.

Cops in LA, NYC, and beyond are using software from Elucd to figure out how the sentiments of the people they protect.

The special counsel has collected a mountain of evidence in the Trump-Russia investigation, but so far only a tiny amount of it has been revealed in official indictments. Here are nine areas where we should expect answers as the inquiry unfolds.

Maker of e-cigarettes is trying to convince regulators that it wants to push away the teens that made it famous, just as its trying to raise billions.

You don’t typically find philosophical bickering at an FDA public meeting. But then again, lab-grown meat is no ordinary topic.

President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court got a lot of gums flapping on the internet last week.

Leila Jeffreys photographed majestically colorful members of the Columbidae family in Australia.

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To tackle real issues, legislators first need to understand them—and they need help. That means it’s time to reboot the Office of Technology Assessment.

Engineers at the Google sister company Wing spent more than a few hours searching for just the right mechanism that would let their drones safely deliver packages.