Facebook is ubiquitous, yes—but we shouldn't put it on the same regulatory plane as telecom giants.

On a new health portal, 23andMe encourages customers to share how they manage common health conditions. It’s not hard to see who gets the better side of the deal.

Investigators says Flight 1380's engine showed signs of "metal fatigue," and now airlines are hoping to find similar problems before they cause another disaster.

New research from Princeton University exposes vulnerabilities in the social network's universal login API.

Audit by PwC came two years after Facebook learned that a university researcher gave personal data on millions of Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica.

A spandex-clad superhero keeps beating Atlanta Braves fans...even when they have a huge head start.

With the Moto G6 and E5, the king of budget phones has no plans to abdicate its throne in 2018.

From climate change to reforming white supremacists: At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, it's about the medium and the message.

In the wake of privacy scandals, Facebook users are newly realizing their data makes the company rich. What if platforms paid them for their contributions?

With tons of amenities, the DNA sequencing giant hopes to attract the Bay Area's top life science talent.

Vinebot is part of the first generation of advanced “soft robots,” which promise to go where no traditional robot can tread—literally.

We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.

A new web browser standard may spell the end of passwords, but all the big websites will have to play along first.

Coming attractions for economy fliers could include actual lie-flat beds, just not in the cabin.

The only upside to Puerto Rico's island-wide blackout is that engineers and aid groups could rethink it from the ground up. They may have to.

Critics say Facebook is using design tricks to win users' permission to collect personal data under new European rules.

One person died on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 after an engine failed and blew a hole in the cabin at 32,500 feet.

The OURSA security conference offered a place for diverse voices in security, a counterpoint to the corporate hegemony of RSA.

The new incarnation of the satire magazine will never be able to compete with the pace of the internet, but that's not the point.

Could you actually see invading Star Destroyers from the surface of a planet?

Researchers use off-the-shelf robot parts to piece together one of those Stefan Ikea chairs.

Think twice before you tell your iPhone to trust that laptop when you charge it.

An FCC program promised to bring high-speed internet to remote schools. Instead, they've mostly gotten red tape.

These simple, battery-free devices provide an easy way to securely verify that it's really you who's trying to access your online accounts.

Terms of Service; Didn't Read summarizes the terms you've blindly agreed to, and offers discussion around what they mean.

The TED conference has always been a place of high-stakes emotional manipulation. This year, it all feels darker.

These are the best deals we found this week.

New results from a decades-old experiment were initially touted as further evidence for dark matter. But independent scientists have cast serious doubt on that claim.

Colleagues joke that Jeff Dean increased the speed of light. Now he's charged with taking Google's artificial-intelligence efforts in new directions.

It's not the only discombobulated city struggling to divide precious space.

CCleaner owner Avast is sharing more details on the malware attackers used to infect legitimate software updates with malware.

Inaudible signals that your phone can hear—but you can't—are often based on ad hoc tech, which makes for risky security.

Philosopher René Girard's theory of "mimetic desire" explains much of the Facebook congressional hearings.

By accepting Verge, Pornhub could help make cryptocurrency transactions in general more mainstream.

Elijah Hurwitz visited the region this winter amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

The young chef explains his wood-fire cooking technique ahead of the opening of his new Chicago restaurant, Pacific Standard Time.

The black-and-white game is a minimalist triumph, paring the 2D adventure genre down to only its most compelling, most satisfying components.

Celebrating what might have been the very first podcast to capitalize on the medium’s unique capacity to conjure intimacy.

Cargo-shipping regulators have struck a historic deal to set their dirty fuel-burning industry on a low-carbon course.

A few ways to help keep the footage of your kids away from mean old hackers.

Inside the sprawling new facility that wants to help small cannabis farmers survive the invasion of Big Cannabis.

A new breed of chips incorporate artificial intelligence into relatively cheap cameras, enabling new apps but also more ubiquitous surveillance.

Watching pornography in virtual reality changes the experience dramatically: You feel like you're actually there. That triggers empathy rather than distance.

TESS is designed to find and study the exoplanets closest to Earth.

Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.

By scolding Russia for what looks like typical espionage, the US and UK are blurring red lines in cybersecurity.

White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce will follow homeland security advisor Tom Bossert out the door, leaving the Trump administration adrift on cybersecurity policy.

The new Pixar movie has a trailer that makes you think about how teaching math *really* works.

A new holographic technology promises to replace expensive medical imaging. But it might also blur individual human identities.