The league has long avoided politics—and in rebuking the president, it managed to turn protest into a photo op.

The social network has repeatedly shown the ability to tackle tough problems—when they threaten their bottom line.

Long list of luminaries backs new VC fund, pledges 'time and energy' to the portfolio.

The private messenger is testing an Intel-chip feature that could let apps check your phone's contact list—and then provably forget it.

Yahoo's new owner is converting a data-crunching tool to open source, allowing others to use or modify it.

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Sometimes the best way to understand physical properties is by modeling something totally beyond the realm of real life—like gravity balls.

A planned electric vehicle battery factory in Sweden wants to incorporate green energy and mineral sourcing practices to make a super-green car.

How Ray Dalio used data to transcend his ego and get rich doing it.

Take your iPhone photography to the next level with these new features.

A comprehensive guide to the speculation about how Russians used Facebook, and other tech platforms, to help elect a president.

Categories for colors are remarkably stable across languages and cultures. New research may finally explain why.

The tech economy runs on highly purified polysilicon. It’s pricey and difficult to trace. Two Alabama factory workers found it surprisingly easy to steal.

The show just got the streaming service a lot of new users. But will they want to stick around for more?

The company wants to challenge existing notions of what makes a good pickup.

Sitting on the Heroes Health Fund advisory board, Jon Adler helped promote Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's controversial "detoxification" program.

Cloudflare's unlimited DDoS protection should help the internet, but its broader ambitions of killing off DDoS for good remain out of reach.

Quantum computers don’t exist but Microsoft released a programming language for them.

Silicon neurons might make machines like cars and robots smarter and more independent.

With no center, no formal structure, or even a skillful conclusion, the polymath's newest song confirms his unconventional undertaking.

The last time a bot visited Venus, it lasted less than an hour. NASA thinks it can change that.

The latest round of Star Wars rumors has some details on when fans could get a new look at Rian Johnson's movie.

A new book maps how animals navigate a world heavily altered by urban development and climate change.

Welcome to the future of internet-connected fashion.

Most people want moths to go away. Emmet Gowin wants to photograph them.

The war of resistance might be lost, but computational modeling is helping doctors and scientists predict and contain new bacterial threats.

Heat, humidity, and slippery roads dashed the world record dreams at the Berlin Marathon

Can three elite runners, with a little help from Nike and Adidas, smash the marathon world record?

Stop trying to make Sean Spicer happen.

The Equifax breach that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people was bad. The company's response has almost been worse, if that's even possible.

The redesigned August Smart Lock lets you use your phone as your key.

Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines.

Stories like the one in 'It' are pretty common in horror, but audiences never tire of them.

An SEC hack, a Russian dark web takedown, and more security news this week.

The ride-hailing company's offensive? Waging a popularity contest.

Cassini takes one last look at Saturn's moon, Jupiter's swirling clouds, and a star in a great big bubble this week in space.

Disclosure rules for funding political ads are murky. Now Facebook wants to regulate itself

Architect Mat Cash transformed a facility meant to store 30,000 tons of wheat, maize, and sorghum into a celebration of art instead of agriculture.

Facebook finally laid out some changes to its ad platform. But a former employee who helped build it shares his own ideas on how to fix the Russia problem.

Opioid overdoses proliferate, like a disease. A new app lets health and law-enforcement officials anticipate their spread.

How one tech worker's story illuminates the plight of H-1B holders.

If there's one good thing that came out of President Trump and Kim Jong-Un's back-and-forth, it's this.

The cheapest-ever Leica camera is cute as a button.

Plus: We play a game meant for traffic engineers, Apple engineers take on self-driving, and Sebastian Thrun wears a puppy.

A new study found test subjects could mostly spot the patterns from five or six feet away on the first try.

The HP Omen 2015 is an unpretty beast, but it performs well enough.

A rash of malware hit the Google Play store this summer. And while Google has taken big steps to improve Android security, there's no clear end in sight.

By putting prequel series 'Star Trek: Discovery' on its streaming network, CBS is trying to solve a problem no one has figured out yet.

On the morning of the solar eclipse, archaeologists took a drone into the desert to create fantastic 3-D renderings of a Hohokam village.

How longtime allies of Google, Facebook and co. became sometime adversaries