A look at some of the best tech-centric board games and card games that use tech tree decision-making.

Opinion: Phone calls from prison cost far too much. The FCC should intervene to help this broken market.

Welcome to the supremely fascinating world of object reentry risk analysis.

Cracking the "freezing robot" problem requires machine learning and a human-like understanding of how the world works.

The city has to shore up its seawalls and modify its sewer systems to fight back rising tides. And it's suing Big Petroleum over the bill.

Tony Fadell co-created the iPod and Nest, then lost control of them. His latest project could be his most ambitious yet.

Autonomous construction equipment has one big advantage over self-driving cars: They move around a relatively static, structured environment.

Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announces a plan to remake the Toronto waterfront in its data-soaked image.

Ultimate Ears adds Alexa and a fresh redesign to its popular Boom speaker.

Need a more powerful router or faster laptop? These 5 tech deals can help

Researchers at AI Now say algorithms increasingly used by government can be opaque and discriminatory.

Amazon's most affordable device begs the question: when is a cheap tablet too cheap?

DeepMind unveils a new, more powerful version of AlphaGo that learns without studying human play.

Photographer Ulla Lohmann has taken plenty of naps inside the Benbow crater of Vanuatu.

Political movements have always faced infiltration, but recent revelations point to a threat far different from sabotage.

The $300 drip machine from Breville offers many ways to tinker with the variables that go into brewing your morning cup.

Hospitals and med schools use fake corpses to teach anatomy, and the most lifelike model is the SynDaver Patient.

Rogue marathon runners are using social media to cheat their way into races—and it may not be a victimless crime.

University of Washington researchers have shown just how cheaply spies can exploit ad networks for fine-grained, individualized surveillance.

The T-Mobile/Sprint deal would not only raise prices, but also give cable companies a chance to control a wireless market.

Tesla's former VP of production breaks down exactly why you shouldn't be afraid to build your own products.

If you want to pick Evan Prodromou's brain, you'll have to pay him. In Evancoin.

Phenomenons like Me Too are great for Facebook—and that should give us pause. They’re exhausting us to the point where we cannot meaningfully act.

Scientists descend on the Boiling River in Yellowstone to hunt for Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba that kills 97 percent of the humans it infects.

The $199 Sonos One is a great-sounding Sonos speaker you can command with your voice.

Volvo had unveiled the Polestar 1, a carbon fiber-wrapped, sleek challenge to Elon Musk.

Memo outlines steps Twitter plans to control hate and abuse on the service, including expanded definitions of nudity and more enforcement.

Six days after President Trump suggested revoking broadcast licenses, FCC Chair Ajit Pai says agency won't act based on content.

VR on the Oculus Rift + Touch is finally affordable.

The Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability exposes just how deeply broken IoT security really is—and just how limited the options are to repair it.

Hiroshi Ishi­guro builds androids. Beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. His quest? Untangle the ineffable nature of human connection.

It wasn't about the power of technology, it was about how that power was wielded.

When software standards aren't open and available for researchers to vet, bad things happen. Just look at Krack.

ZTE made the foldable Axon M for people who want way more screen space on a phone that still fits in their pocket.

An artificially intelligent therapist named Ellie helps members of the military open up about their mental health.

In their new book, scientist Kelly Weinersmith and *SMBC* cartoonist Zach Weinersmith give a wild glimpse into a future that may or may not involve space elevators and brain-computer interfaces.

We review the $650 Pixel 2 and the $850 Pixel 2 XL, the new Android handsets from Google.

The most power you've ever seen in a normal-looking laptop.

Oxitec has spent the last six years seeking US regulatory approval for its Zika-fighting GM mosquitoes. Now they're the EPA's problem.

Google offers a powerful new security setting aimed its most (rightfully) paranoid users.

New polls find most Americans believe automation destroys more jobs than it creates; one-third believe they're at risk of losing jobs.

There are 8,000 miles in the famed highway network—and each of them has a story.

Is there a physical reason why a planet might have ended up looking like some sort of fat, intergalactic caterpillar?

Director Ryan Coogler's movie looks amazing—in all the best ways.

A vulnerability called KRACK affects nearly every Wi-Fi device on the market.

Scientists detected their fifth gravitational wave in August, and announced it today. But keeping the discoveries quiet is getting harder and harder.

The new Android handset from the Chinese manufacturer has a home-made chip that powers several AI features.

'Dockless' bike-sharing companies are attracting investments from top-flight VC firms and private equity.

Vinaite, who plays a single mom in Sean Baker's film, brings her confidence and vulnerability to a much bigger screen.

At the beginning of the month, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the US, at long last, will go back to the moon. Well ... some day.