How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump's agenda.

Turns out many of those fan theories about Westworld's warriors were way off the mark.

The internet had a lot of fun trying to figure out IHOP's new name last week.

A DNA site breach, a background check failure, and more security news this week.

Larry Page's flying car starts to look real, Uber and Lyft get into bike-sharing, and Elon Musk works to get Tesla on track.

Non-native animals and plants often arrive in cities by happenstance and carve out ecological niches for themselves. But if cities were more deliberate about biodiversity, they’d take in well-suited species that are struggling elsewhere.

Monitoring your roasting and grilling with an app is neat, but the Meater has quirks and flaws that keep us from recommending it.

The billion-dollar, 10-year All of Us initiative promises to sequence and study the health of 1 million Americans. But will they represent the diversity of the country's population?

Falling between console upgrades and generational changes, 2018 is all about the games, but don't pin your hopes on a mindblowing reveal.

Microsoft's Windows red team probes and prods the world's biggest operating system through the eyes of an adversary.

The strikes are a lot like on Earth, but they tend to linger toward the poles.

A second film could've explored where Han Solo got his cynical, jaded attitude.

Get a head start on your Father’s Day shopping.

Opinion: The NATO Secretary General explains how the alliance manages the dark side of the web.

Researchers find that when working memory gets overburdened, dialog between three brain regions breaks down. The discovery provides new support for a broader theory about how the brain operates.

Land Rover always delivers capability and convenience, and that means teaching its cars to drive themselves where the roads don't go.

Getting trippy with storytelling at Festival of the Impossible, an AR and VR showcase currently showing in San Francisco.

If you went into Apple's annual developers conference thinking it would be about performance, stability, and Animoji—and not new MacBook Pros—you were totally right.

For better or worse.

By expanding the case against Marcus Hutchins, the Department of Justice has signaled a troubling interpretation of cybersecurity law.

Female-fronted movies could be better if they weren't focused on roles made for men.

The computer geeks in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra celebrate ten years of music-making with a concert this weekend.

These techniques won’t quench humanity's thirst, but they’ve got serious potential to help augment water supplies in particularly dry places.

Opinion: Reigniting exploration of the world's oceans is essential to protecting our natural resources and promoting scientific advancement.

A new computer at Oak Ridge National Lab can perform 200 quadrillion calculations per second, ending China's reign.

When photographer Reuben Wu visited the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway, the sun never strayed far from the horizon.

There are different categories of incorrect physics—and each deserves its own strategy.

Before it can make its maiden flight this summer, the enormous, glorious cargo plane must survive the static ground vibration test.

Streaming services, match schedules, and more for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The Google founder's Kitty Hawk has shown a new version of its Flyer vehicle, boasting a sleek design and solid specs.

Weird, risky sci-fi has an uphill battle, and it's going to take a very long time until that changes.

On the internet, Latin American phenom Germán Germandia is almost as big as Bieber. Now he’s setting his sites on Hollywood. One thing he doesn’t want: help from traditional media.

Not like that.

The "cold trade war" between the US and China continues, with probes into Google and Facebook in the US and Micron in China.

In late May, millions of Facebook users had new posts set to public by default.

In response to employee unrest over a Pentagon contract, Google CEO Sundar Pichai offered rules for the company's use of artificial intelligence.

Rubert Murdoch and Brian Roberts aren't just trying to increase their empires; they're two men seeking the ultimate control

In a new Tech Support video, Daniel Gruchy and Gavin Free detail the method to their mania.

Terri Loewenthal uses self-made reflective optics to compose scenes that look like double exposures but are actually single shots.

Believing sharing is key to its longterm success, the Uber rival is doing everything it can to get more people into fewer cars.

Encyclopedia Britannica released a Chrome extension designed to fix Google's sometimes inaccurate "featured snippets."

Alexa knows: it's hip to be square.

After a decade of failed carbon taxes, Washington state is pushing to pass the country's first "carbon fee." Will this time be different?

Can scientists find a way to power our phones, robots, and electric cars without cobalt?

The game manages to mechanize something that role-playing games have broadly bungled: ulterior motives.

Robots that mimic humans are getting so entrancing, it’s easy to forget how ethically problematic they could be one day if we’re not careful.

It's as easy and convenient to ride the electric Yuba Boda Boda as it is to drive a car.

San Francisco still doesn’t have a new mayor. But that’s democracy for you.

Alexander Nix testified before Parliament, but provided more bluster than answers.