We're on the verge of a shift in how smart home devices clamor for our attention. Get ready for Amazon Alexa-enabled push notifications.

For the past five years, I've turned off social media in August and detoxed from the internet. This year was different.

I've allowed technology to give me an attention disorder. Here's what I'm doing to reclaim my focus.

A tasty, vital effort to understand how people interact with driverless technology.

Aaron Cohen watched from a high-rise as Hurricane Harvey dropped 30 inches of rain in 48 hours.

This weekend’s flooding threatens to overrun both the built and natural systems in Houston and its surrounding county.

Donald Trump's scorched-earth rhetoric pushes North Korea closer to the brink—and, maybe, the US closer to the negotiating table.

The videogame developer takes costuming needs into consideration when designing characters for its popular series.

Even vertical video!

Along with the developer toolkit, Google's launching an experimental browser to let anyone make AR-capable websites.

The mail-order DVD company turned streaming behemoth turns 20 today, but its watershed moments go far beyond 8/29/97.

A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster—and a huge opportunity for one burglar.

It's time to make some changes.

As Hurricane Harvey wreaks havoc on Southeast Texas, crucial cellular networks remain largely stable, reflecting progress since Katrina.

The only way to take them out? Dish soap.

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take over the scandal-plagued ride-hailing company, the world's most valuable startup

Antonio Guillem didn't mean to go viral. In fact, he only just found out what a meme is.

After the 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 finale it's hard not to wonder why anyone believed in the show in the first place.

By 2021, DigitalGlobe will be able to image parts of the planet every 20 minutes, flashing by for photos dozens of times a day.

The Ionic can track your heart rate, play music, make mobile payments, and display push notifications. Just don't call it a wrist computer.

Rumors are circulating that Jabba the Hutt might get a standalone movie. Did anyone ask for this?

It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.

Mobilize Rescue's interactive first aid kit distills 1,600-pages of triage into a life-saving app

This isn't an artificial best friend or a robo-sidekick; instead, Temi was designed to be a video chat and music machine.

Philippe Glade documents the ingenious shelters built to withstand heat, wind and dust in the Black Rock Desert.

"The Dragon and the Wolf" packed a lot of fire—and ice—into its nearly 80 minutes, and we've got some questions.

Here are all the online controversies you might've missed last week.

And what the temporary Black Rock City settlement has to learn.

Hybrids, once treated as biological misfits, have been the secret saviors of many animal species in trouble. Reconciling that truth with conservation policies poses a challenge for science.

Why math may—or may not—save US elections.

Leaked documents describe weapons and cite potential "gunfight."

Smart, cheap, well-made indie movies are changing the face of the genre.

The parody of the Concours d'Elegance celebrates hoopties and absuridity.

A dwarf galaxy with two names, Mars' cracked dunes, and the ISS photobombs the eclipse this week in space.

Taylor Swift's new single, "Look What You Made Me Do," has launched as much conspiracy theorizing as it has criticism.

Even as the solar eclipse was mesmerizing millions, astronomers were training their space- and land-based telescopes on a far more violent astrophysical event.

Corpus Christi, a critical port for the Texas oil and gas industry, is also one of the most vulnerable places in America when it comes to coastal flooding.

On this week's Gadget Lab podcast, we run down the news on Samsung's latest bigphone.

The pop star's songs used to be about inclusion. "Look What You Made Me Do" is just fuel for internet drama.

Malicious machine learning can hide nasty surprises.

Want to make your art last forever? Print it on styrofoam.

An adorable Fujifilm photo printer filled with joy...and film.

The often-attacked framework finally learns to play defense.

The streaming platform's constant announcement aren't just there for trade publications—they're for fans.