A new Iran-linked hacking group called APT 34 has been spotted lurking in the networks of financial, energy, telecom, and chemical companies.

Some AI researchers are concerned by the field's power, and its ability to cause harm.

It's a look at how genes are expressed during the earliest stages of life—down to the cellular level.

The $198 Cap of Courage weaves together ultra-soft Rambouillet wool and synthetic spider silk.

Most popular music takes on current events by going big, but 'War & Leisure' finds R&B gold by exploring the politics of the self.

With Project Sopris, Microsoft has a new hardware solution for the next wave of IoT security problems.

'Everything Is Going to Be OK' explores trauma, resilience, and what people do to get by.

Time to make airports somewhere again.

Opinion: Rep. Will Hurd of Texas argues that quantum computers will rock current security protocols that protect government and financial systems.

Justin Caldbeck has been reaching out to women who accused him of sexual harassment, and others who've talked about his case. Some recipients don't appreciate the effort.

Wickr takes center stage.

Survey by First Round Capital finds that 19 percent of founders think harassment has been overblown by the media; only 17 percent have formal plan for diversity and inclusion.

Southern California was a tinderbox even before it was a megalopolis. Add urban sprawl and a booming population and you get infernos every year.

The honor didn't go to a person—it went to the "silence breakers" and #MeToo movement.

The SF Board of Supervisors voted to severely restrict the machines, which roll on sidewalks and autonomously dodge obstacles like dogs and buskers.

AlphaZero can teach itself to be the world's best at chess, Go, or Shogi in eight hours or less.

Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.

Always On, a livestream of electronic music from female, transgender, and non-binary artists, will be running for the next two days.

Nicolas Polli's photographic archive tells the story of a remarkable space mission that never happened.

When so many Marvel shows treat abilities as a burden, Hulu's teen ensemble runs the other way.

The Movi, a stabilizing gimbal for shooting mobile video, is powered by some advanced software.

Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the US for one day.

The quest to make order fulfillment as efficient as possible is fueling an unlikely robotic renaissance that’ll have implications far beyond the warehouse.

The checkered history of planned cities doesn't augur well for Saudi Arabia's Neom.

Tim Wu, who coined the phrase "net neutrality," says the FCC's proposal to revoke net neutrality rules ignores history and the law.

To come up with a new material, scientists need to test millions of recipes. Machine learning helps narrow down the options.

China's search giant, Baidu, missed mobile. It's now staking its future on AI—and it just might have an edge.

Facebook and Twitter won't fix fake news alone, says danah boyd. Today's information wars are also a reflection of us.

When a high level exec is harassing women, few are powerful enough to change a culture of sexual harassment—except the board.

An unknown techie thinks that the key patent in the Waymo/Uber lawsuit should never have been granted—and if he’s right, Waymo might find itself on the other side of a lawsuit.

National prestige and athletic glory will likely keep tempting some athletes.

Author Stephen Marche enlisted software to tell him how to optimize his tale. This is their story.

A progressive politics movement in the UK is borrowing tech-driven strategies from the Bernie Sanders campaign—and it’s working.

Opinion: A new report from Citizen Lab shows that governments are using commercial spyware to surveil dissidents and journalists.

The company is starting final testing on the machine it hopes will beat Tesla and Audi, and lead the all-electric pack.

The new Always Connected PC boots fast, lasts for days, and never loses internet connection.

The director and J.J. Abrams are reportedly starting up a writers' room for a new voyage. Here are a few things to consider.

A green padlock might make it seem like a site is secure, but increasingly phishers are using it to lure victims into giving up sensitive info.

The attack uncovers bugs in how more than a dozen programs implement email's creaky protocol.

The story behind the cute little robot that's helping deaf children practice their communication.

From now on, stories will automatically download to your phone and you can share them permanently on your profile.

With the release of Ghostery 8, the popular ad-blocker introduces artificial intelligence and Smart Mode, a whole new level of usability for beginners.

Driving isn't necessarily all about being behind the wheel any more.

From Net Nanny to parental blocks to, you know, actually talking to your kids about their online behavior.

Facebook introduces Messenger Kids for 6-to-12-year olds who are too young for its main app. The apps is ad-free and includes parental controls, but critics say they're not adequate.

Highly paid players. Billionaire team owners. Dedicated fans. A major new league aims to bring video­game competition into the mainstream—and upend the world of sports.

Scientists are using it to treat genetic diseases, grow climate-resilient crops, and develop designer foods. Here’s how it works.

Frame-by-frame video analysis shows an illegal forward pass—but in the reference frame of the QB, it's backward.

Neuroscientific evidence seems to have a small but positive impact on defendants' outcomes. The looming question—scientifically, legally, philosophically—is whether it should.