By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, biologist Aubrey de Grey has achieved mathematical immortality.

This year, it won't be all fun and games for Mark Zuckerberg.

The company that invented the automobile is getting ready for a world where batteries, sharing, and robots rule.

A 21-month study finds that as users are fed more ads, they listen less; some subscribe, but not enough to compensate for lost ad revenue.

The second episode of Season 2 of 'Westworld' finally shows the places beyond the parks.

The massive deal still has to be approved by regulators, and that may not be as easy as it sounds.

The European Space Agency's craft has already has catalogued more than 1 billion stars.

In other big internet news, President Trump went on 'Fox and Friends' and Kanye West is back on Twitter.

There are a ton of claims around AI and cybersecurity that don't quite add up. Here's what's really going on.

Opinion: Customers should be in charge of the information companies have about them, and companies need to be liable if they misuse it.

Whether you're hunting for a 200GB MicroSD card or a new laptop, we've got a dozen tech deals to check out this weekend.

Author Mary Rickert's short story collection 'You Have Never Been Here' is influenced by real-life crime tales—and it's more intense because of it.

With the official end of the Airport era, it's time to let a new router into your life. Preferably mesh.

A major DDoS for hire site gets taken down, the CIA has a card game that you can play soon too, and more security news this week.

By the time the US figures out the source of E Coli, many more people will have gotten sick. Making our food supply traceable could speed things up.

Flying people to baseball games is exactly the kind of thing LA's Office of Extraordinary Innovation was meant to consider.

Republicans concluded that Trump's campaign didn't collude with Russia, but the president is far from off the hook.

Google cofounder calls advances in artificial intelligence "the most significant development in computing in my lifetime,” but warns of ethical concerns.

Popularized by misogynists, fueled by white supremacists, and now espoused by the most popular rapper in the world.

This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, we hear about Lauren and Arielle's adventures with Snap's new Spectacles.

Want to see the future? Try squinting through Spectacles.

In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.

Joy Reid may have very well been the target of a malicious breach. Or she's just the latest person to blame hackers for her past mistakes.

If her new album says anything, it’s that all she ever needed to be was herself.

Here's the fundamental physics behind every class of robots in the showdown.

Plus: why self-driving car developers should be aiming lower.

It’s a molecular Parent Trap: Stick two atoms in a vacuum chamber, and steer them together with lasers.

More companies like Uber and Instacart are using Checkr, which promises streamlined background checks through automation and integration with hiring apps.

More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks.

The latest Honda hybrid uses two motors, an engine, and a bevy of buttons, paddles, and pedals—and can leave drivers feeling like symphony conductors.

From posting "boner killers" to helping law enforcement, victims of nonconsensual pornography are fighting back.

Facebook ads will appear on TV, online, in movie theaters, and on public transit and billboards.

No Words With Friends for British Airways pilots, it's all about fuel calculations, safety notices, and maps.

The culmination of 10 years and 18 movies is something that's virtually impossible to repeat.

Some small animals can produce bullet-like accelerations—could robots do it, too?

A new search tool on Pinterest aims to surface more content showing people of all skin tones when you search for beauty tips and products.

Genetics pioneer Jennifer Doudna has launched the first commercial Crispr platform for detecting disease-causing DNA.

Can these 41-foot-high walls protect the country from another tsunami?

The social network Snap, Inc has refreshed its Spectacles wearable camera. They're improved—and more expensive.

Advocates say attacks on science and deregulation would continue under the agency's number two.

The German automaker struck a deal to purchase lidar laser sensors from the solid state startup.

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a devastating catastrophe in one of the country’s largest nuclear power plants. The cleanup will take decades, and it’s no job for humans.

Facebook's growth accelerated, despite concerns about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the #deletefacebook movement, and potential advertiser defections.

After the ultra-funky i3 and i8, the German automaker is bringing its batteries into the mainstream.

Benefits of robots: 1. They never get tired. 2. They can lift very heavy things. 3. They can walk through (controlled) conflagrations at the University of Michigan.

Facebook's vice president of ads described a simple picture of how advertising works on the platform. The reality is far more complicated.

The newest Google app is a simple and easy to-do list named Tasks.

Startups building artificial intelligence software don't have millions of images like Google, Apple, or Facebook; so they fabricate images to train the algorithms.

Snapchat isn't just introducing games. It's building the next computing platform, one piece at a time.

Researchers didn't have to hack Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to use it for eavesdropping. They just took advantage of the system in place.