"I would say if this is all confirmed, it does mean Face ID is less secure than Touch ID."

Replika, an app that creates an artificially intelligent doppelgänger, offers a glimpse into the future of human-bot interaction.

Twitter is giving users a lot more characters—and boy are folks getting the most out of them.

Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a unique defense against inevitable tumors.

Thanks to a profitable casino, an Indian tribe gives its members sizeable cash payments. It’s called a basic income and might be the solution to job losses brought on by automation and globalization.

The company says the departure was "completely amicable."

A good piece of luggage is brought down by its poor smart features.

The BBC America sci-fi series has never had a huge audience, but it's definitely worth watching.

The gas giant's got swirls for days.

Astronauts need toilet paper and the people need science.

Ethereum, Wikileaks, a years-old hack of the Trump business empire, and more of the week's top security news.

Rice remains one of China's oldest and most important industries, even as the nation pushes innovation in things like solar power to electric cars.

After raising nearly a billion dollars in just two years, Mobike sees a future beyond just bikes.

A special episode this week recounting the day in 2007 when hashtags arrived on Twitter.

Sorry Yelp and Foursquare: Local peels the stickiest, best part of Facebook away from all the stuff you'd rather not have.

Lucasfilm is putting a lot of faith in the guy behind the next installment of the Skywalker saga. That means it must be good.

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Hector Guerrero has traveled more than 1,000 miles documenting Mexico's tallest volcanoes and the people and landscape surrounding them.

The internet is awash in theories about Facebook using your smartphone's microphone to eavesdrop on your conversations. It's not. Here's why.

If you want a mechanical keyboard experience for under $70, the loud and proud Aukey KM-G3 will get you there.

Plus: a video history of the Darpa Grand Challenges that sparked the driverless car industry.

Turtle Beach's plush wireless headset is solid, but not the best we've gamed with.

Telecoms want to tap artificial-intelligence to plan networks. Facebook, which has AI expertise and needs telcos, offers to help.

Between delivering food and drugs in hospitals to bringing towels to your hotel room, Tug is helping redefine the human-robot frontier.

At least when it comes to moving people around the suburbs.

The inside story of how three autonomous vehicle races brought together the community now leading the way toward a world of robotic chauffeurs.

Twitter suspends its process for awarding blue check marks and its CEO calls the policy 'broken' amid criticism for verifying the account of a white supremacist.

The Russian billionaire is deeply invested in the science of his Breakthrough Initiatives and Prizes. So are many Silicon Valley elites.

The Department of Defense's bug bounty program was a smashing success. And other government agencies have taken notice.

Part of the comedian's appeal was his relatability—the sense that underneath the curmudgeonliness, he was a good guy. Given the harassment allegations, what happens now?

In an interview, the famed astronomer and communicator fought for the idea that science is the best way to know things

Logitech's still going to brick the Harmony Link, but now it's going to do right by current owners, giving them a Harmony Hub.

The platform hooked people with brevity—can it do the same with levity?

Photographer Sadegh Souri followed them on seven dangerous treks to the border.

Wireless headphones that pass the toughest test of all—being shoved in a gym bag.

The filmmaker has a new project out, but it's far from the only thing on his mind right now.

Opinion: Calls for help on social media are well-intentioned but counterproductive.

If the cargo industry doesn’t switch away from climate-warming bunker fuel, we’re all sunk.

In talk to Washington think tank, Al Franken ties together complaints against Google, Facebook, and Amazon and calls for more control over their market power.

First, use your phone to record the car's acceleration. Then start solving for the minimum coefficient of friction.

After ProPublica journalists wrote about hate groups, the trolls retaliated by signing them up for thousands of subscriptions. That was only the beginning.

One of the best ultrabooks on the market just got a little bit more polished.

Even as VCs race to invest in cryptocurrency companies, the novelty of the field poses legal, administrative, and PR challenges.

Somehow, the plan to bring electric VTOL aircraft to America's traffic hellscape might work.

How a program called Mimikatz became one of the world's most widespread and powerful hacking tools.

Reports say Justice Department wants AT&T to sell Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV, or face an antitrust lawsuit over its proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

After results that far exceeded expectations, data-driven progressive groups might widen their aperture as they look to 2018.

When a genetic skin-peeling disease threatened the life of a 7-year-old boy, doctors turned to an experimental mashup of stem cells and gene therapy.

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