The system detects problems in flight, and helps the unmanned aircraft get back to the ground.

Antitrust law is in Amazon's favor, but activists argue that regulators don't understand the full power of tech platforms.

A model shows that cow herds may be extremely dynamic, secretly contentious gatherings of warring interests.

The long-awaited Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter put on quite a show.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has signed a deal to help build a hyperloop line from Seoul to Busan.

The designers' first task chair marries ergonomics with sleek design.

Blackouts in Ukraine were just a trial run. Russian hackers are learning to sabotage infrastructure---and the US could be next.

Database security continues to be a major pain point. Just ask the nearly 200 million people whose personal info got left exposed on the internet.

A registered sex offender has just become the world's most unlikely free speech crusader.

Researchers have loaded a robot with an artificial intelligence so it can figure out how to best grip objects it’s never seen before, no hand-holding required.

A new technology for VR headsets puts the so-called screen-door effect in the past.

Some say it's a one-star airline, but photographer Arthur Mebius sees it as the golden age of aviation.

The American people need answers to tricky questions about government and technology---not another photo op.

Physicists propose that dark matter is capable of changing phases—into an exotic superfluid with zero viscosity.

From Fox News' new slogan to President Trump's "witch hunt" tweet, here's everything the internet was talking about last week.

The four-fan concept from a European aerospace consortium offers reasonable specs—and could be here in a few years.

Microsoft's patching Windows XP, an anonymous tech company fought back against PRISM, and more of the week's most important security news.

The USS Fitzgerald ran into the ACX Crystal off the coast of Japan, and human error is a likely culprit.

Michelle Carter has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for pressuring her boyfriend to kill himself via text. Here's what it means for free speech online and off.

Environmental groups have spent decades preparing for the likes of Trump.

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon can take its wild grocery store vision nationwide.

The shiny space fabric pulls triple duty.

Other media might be striving for utopia, but not videogames. Judging from the many demos at E3, the industry is more apocalypse-minded than ever.

The Swedish automaker wants to avoid the space between human and robot drivers—but that may prove impossible.

Photographer Jason Hawkes captured a devestating shot of Grenfell Tower ablaze.

Researchers are studying how machine learning could help identify infants before they show behavioral symptoms.

The endurance race requires not just great tech, but the ability to harness it for 24 hours straight.

Talking about conspiracy theories—even to dispute them—still allows them to spread.

Hundreds of millions of people use Amazon. But so far the company has done little to cater to one massive market.

Routers aren't great at security—and apparently no one knows that better than the CIA