Apple said it will pay an estimated $38 billion in tax to bring back to the US some of the $252 billion it has stashed overseas, following passage of the new tax law.

Labo is a set of cardboard, build-it-yourself accessories for Nintendo's super-popular Switch gaming console.

Entrepreneurs are selling VCs a vision of cheap, surgery-free cancer screening based on blood tests, even before symptoms appear.

When researchers put a popular criminal justice algorithm up against a bunch of Mechanical Turks, they came out about even.

Researchers claim they’ve reduced the uncertainty in a key metric of climate change by 60 percent. That could have implications for how humanity arrives at climate goals like it did in Paris.

A discussion about diversity in product design with Google's Lilian Rincon. Recorded live at CES 2018.

Just put on this goofy helmet, and the car could know what you'll do before you do it.

Set up an intersection the wrong way, and an oncoming car can be completely blind to an approaching biker—with fatal consequences.

For years it's been the stuff of science fiction. Now NASA's shown that pulsar navigation works.

Starting with an $11 billion investment and an SUV to rival Tesla's Model X, called the Mach 1.

James O'Keefe's Project Veritas has targeted Twitter, after the social media giant took steps to curb abuse on its platform.

The devious rhythmic combat game is a grueling meditation on what a boss fight is worth.

Vacant buildings are more than just an economic threat. They're also a public safety concern. And it turns out they have their own sort of gravitational pull.

For all their advances, robots still struggle with the human world. They get stuck. They get assaulted. But not to worry: Help is just a call center away.

A lawsuit from a former nanny brings new allegations against Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the heart of the Uber/Waymo dispute.

Megan Squire doesn’t consider herself to be antifa and pushes digital activism instead, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use—who might weaponize it.

The San Francisco startup helps restricts smartphone use in places where the people in charge don’t want it. But in allowing this, we may be compromising something about ourselves.

What’s astounding about Kal Turnbull's brainchild is that no single radioactive topic—not Trump, Brexit, sex, guns—has overrun the subreddit.

The story of how an internet infrastructure company get locked into a free-speech dispute starts in the cubicles of SoMa and the brothels of Istanbul.

At a time when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, we should be living in a utopia of public discourse. We're not.

Blocked by Trump, fired by Google, suspended by Facebook. The social internet gives everyone a voice, it also has countless ways of punishing us for speaking.

Special Issue: How technology is upending everything we thought we knew about public discourse.

A growing set of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies like BabyGlimpse are aimed at new, expecting, and aspiring parents. But beware their claims.

Get great results from your GoPro or other action cam as you capture your snowy heroics ... and your legendary bails.

High-waisted tights are much harder to find than you might think.

50 million new trees will repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in the north.

Why Pittsburgh’s predictive analytics misdiagnoses child maltreatment and prescribes the wrong solutions

Too bad federal regulations won't allow the cool tech on American roads.

Mass disdain for the political system makes it easy for anyone with a social network to launch themselves into politics.

Gore-Tex, the waterproof material in your favorite jacket—and boots and ski pants—was born by accident.

One chemist thinks he’s found a way for us to outrun the lethal juggernaut of antibiotic resistance.

There was no way social media was going to let the president’s comments go uncommented upon.

It's a new name for an old argument: that public agencies fighting crime and terrorism must have access to our private communications—for our own good.

Eventually, it should be able to fly as far as 20 miles, carrying 500 pounds )or 400 large Domino's pizzas.

For decades, physicists have struggled to create a quantum theory of gravity. Now an approach that dates to the 1970s is attracting newfound attention.

And where was the federal government?

These all-foam snowshoes from Crescent Moon might look low-tech, but the combination of cleats and tire-like treads provide ample traction.

Meltdown, Spectre, malicious Android apps, and more of the week's top security news.

The Richard Branson-backed venture wants to launch a commercial hyperloop in 2021, and it's got work to do.

The show's most recent season hinted that its episodes are connected—but it should stay an anthology series.

At the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy is a big, black hole—and NASA just snapped a photo of it.

Facebook's vice president for newsfeed explains the thinking behind recent changes in the algorithm that determines what 2 billion people see on the social network.

After 30 years in the making, gene therapy is finally an FDA-approved reality. What comes next—and how will Crispr get a slice of the action?

The recent books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Evan Narcisse have had great character-driven stories.

Two of the worst vulnerabilities in years are slowly being fixed—but at a cost to consumers and companies alike.

This week on the show, we talk about the proliferation of smart home tech. Recorded live at CES.

The video known as badday.mpg has been an internet phenomenon for more than 20 years. Thanks, CERN.

Opinion: Google, Twitter, and Signal should take steps to ensure their tools aren’t restricting Iranian’s free speech.

Plus, General Motors’ steering wheel-free car and Bell Helicopters’ flying taxi.

At over six feet tall, Bossa Nova navigates the aisles of Walmart on its own, blasting shelves with light and snapping photos.