A notice on the website of Backpage.com said it had been seized by multiple federal agencies. The site was at the center of a debate over amending a bedrock internet law.

It's good that Facebook is addressing its many privacy woes, but reacting rather than planning leaves some fixes feeling half-baked.

The Facebook CEO's constant apologies aren't a promise to do better. They're a symptom of a profound crisis of accountability.

Laptops are getting mobile processors and behaving more like phones. How will that change the way we use them?

The social network will now require ads about political issues, not just elections, to be verified. It will also begin vetting Pages with large numbers of followers.

An atmospheric river means this weekend is going to be as wet as an entire typical April.

After years of media reports and complaints, Instagram recently moved to restrict hashtags related to opioids and deleted some accounts.

DHS this week confirmed that Washington, DC is littered with fake cell tower surveillance devices, but nothing will likely be done to fix it.

A Tesla wreck, an EPA rollback, and a city simulator

Surfing the web on your phone is about to get a whole lot better.

An algorithm tailored to individual brain activity shows it can boost memory with electrical zaps.

Insuring against hacks and breaches can be a lucrative business—but also presents unique challenges.

Kersti Kaljulaid, Estonia’s youngest and first female president, lays out her plans for moving the country from a traditional state to a digital society.

A Google team created an app that asks users in India and elsewhere to identify household objects and public places, to boost the accuracy of its image-recognition services.

In which a physics professor very severely overthinks his daughter's science homework.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally agreed to appear before Congress—which means he might finally get at the real issue behind Facebook's woes.

Need a cram session before the next Marvel movie? This one won't break the bank.

Finally, construction is finishing on the delayed barrier to protect the city from high tides. But how well will MOSE actually work?

Kai-Fu Lee, head of the investment firm Sinovation Ventures, is training Chinese professors to teach artificial-intelligence techniques.

WIRED columnist Susan Crawford on why the AT&T-Time Warner merger is bad for competition, bad for content, and bad for consumers.

Cambridge researchers point to an 1816 precedent that could fundamentally change how "dirty" Bitcoins are tracked.

The alleged teen trend exists only in the articles reporting its trendiness. What went wrong?

Racebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the fixes to Facebook's data-sharing woes will be a "multi-year" process.

Users can't log into the dating app after Facebook adjusted its app integration policies.

San Bruno police identified the attacker as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a woman in her late thirties from San Diego.

New methods of controller use are merging the gaming world and the real one—and Nintendo is leading the charge.

Fin7, also known as JokerStash, Carbanak, and other names, is one of the most successful criminal hacking groups in the world.

Poorly regulated stem cell treatments have blinded some macular degeneration patients. But a new technique is showing therapeutic promise.

New research confirms that the river's worst floods aren't just the result of bad weather—they're the result of bad engineering.

San Francisco is just the latest city dealing with a horde of new vehicles—from dockless bikes to electric scooters—and struggling to figure out how to best allocate limited space.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, and MailChimp have all decided to shut out cryptocurrency advertising, but some blockchain enthusiasts say that might not be such a bad thing.

For 16 years, Virginia Trimble read every astronomy paper in 23 journals. Now, her review papers are part of the canon.

The streaming company proved it could get the Napster generation to subscribe. But will Spotify's paywall make it profitable?

Police say 1 dead and 4 wounded in shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, Tuesday afternoon.

Stanley Kubrick's iconic film gave us Hal and other sci-fi elements. Here's how they stack up against reality.

Lockheed Martin's Low Boom Demonstrator joins the ranks of NASA's famed X-planes—and could bring back the age of supersonic civilian aviation that ended when the Concorde retired in 2003.

It makes all the sense in the world that Apple wants to leave Intel behind. Where it gets tricky is how it gets there.

The music-streaming service listed its shares Tuesday without the traditional bankers or ceremony.

The latest numbers from Elon Musk's automaker show slow but encouraging progress in its fight to deliver history's most anticipated car.

The appointment of Paul Nakasone raises the question again: Should the NSA and Cyber Command be controlled by one man?

Researchers have been super-gluing little barcodes to bumblebees in order to track their movements in unprecedented detail.

Quality is one sign of a video hoax, but physics gives you indisputable evidence.

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Scott Tuason documents the extraordinary creatures he sees while blackwater diving.

There are other things you can do besides deleting your account.

Content Marketing Networks, like Revcontent, draw eyeballs for ads with outrageous words and images. But post #MeToo, that strategy might be bad for business.

Between Tumblr witches and the Cult of Kek, neo-occultism is having quite a moment.

The aching eyes, sore muscles, and headaches caused by eye strain can be prevented by following these tips.

Drivers unhappy about devices that track how much time they spend on the road are taking their grievances to Washington.

The more like real brains they became, the more useful these organdies are for studying complex behaviors and neurological diseases.