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Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine.

This high-end turntable made me re-think how seriously I took my record collection.

Police seized laptops and phones from reporters working for the anti-establishment Newsclick website-the latest outlet to be raided during a crackdown on media in India.

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it easier to clone and generate voices. It has huge implications for voice actors.

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.

On streets and in malls, browsing was a way of withholding commitment. But online, no act of browsing is ever really idle.

Everyone's favorite starship captain is back in the hot seat-this time as the author of a revealing, open-hearted memoir, Making It So.

Researchers say that it's too easy to evade current methods of watermarking-or even to add fake watermarks to real images.

A developer in Austria created a comparison website that helped open up the opaque world of food costs as regulators investigate the food industry.

Foam rubber-like the filling inside your couch-produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution.

The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV.

The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by ... the UK government.

White-collar defendants use three main defenses: It wasn't me, I didn't mean it, and the people that say I did are lying." FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to go for I didn't mean it," experts say.

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.

If your child is at high risk or if community transmission rates are high, you may want them to wear face masks. These are the styles my little ones will tolerate.

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

Hardshell rain jackets don't stay water resistant forever. This is how to give new life to your old outdoors outerwear.

Testimony during Google's antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate search results that will get you to buy more stuff.

It weighs a little more than 5 pounds, but this beefy laptop is a gaming powerhouse-if you can get used to the keyboard.

Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial on charges of overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do smart people buy into bad companies?

Covid seems to spike twice a year-but unlike with flu season, not in a predictable pattern. That could be due to the virus, the environment, or the people it is infecting.

Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.

Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.

As the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit's Big Three drags on, a classic behavioral theory provides a way to figure out how long they may continue.

Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here's when yours will probably come.

Do-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s.

Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU's message-scanning law.

The Stir It Up Lux turntable was (mostly) easy for a vinyl newbie to set up-and it's a beauty to look at.

While the toy brand kills its plans for an oil-free plastic alternative, it's still pumping out billions of non-biodegradable bricks a year. Can Lego ever be sustainable?

It's gross. It's sticky. Here's the science of how it has already saved your life.

Gareth Edwards' new sci-fi film invites audiences to cheer for artificial intelligence that affirms the value of human life.

The DIY days of making gadgets better and longer-lasting are long past-and possibly, hopefully, in the future.

OpenAI's new image analysis update for its chatbot is both impressive and frightening. Here's how to use it, and some advice for your experiments.

Plus: Mozilla patches 10 Firefox bugs, Cisco fixes a vulnerability with a rare maximum severity score, and SAP releases updates to stamp out three highly critical flaws.

Despite return-to-office mandates, workers have made it clear that remote work isn't going anywhere. Here's how to make the most of it while keeping your boss (and yourself) happy.

Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the sponge city." Think more parks and fewer parking lots.

Heavy rainfall led to dangerous flash flooding in New York City and surrounding areas this morning.

New name, same game. The world's biggest and best soccer game has a new look, but under the surface things still feel very familiar.

By injecting chatbots into Meta's social platforms, Mark Zuckerberg threatens to undermine his company's original mission: to connect humans with other humans.

On Friday, the streaming giant will send out its final disc, ending an era that catered to people who loved films and signaling the age of good enough entertainment.

To figure it out, you'll need two similar feats of superhero strength and a little bit of physics.

Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called sesquiterpenes." Scientists are learning more-and it's making climate models hazy.

In a cave in eastern Myanmar, a young engineer who goes by the nom de guerre 3D" is building weapons to fight against a brutal military dictatorship.

Over a billion people drink coffee every day, and what better way to celebrate that than with yet more coffee!

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is about to stand trial in the US. But many customers who lost big when the exchange collapsed are unlikely to get their money back.

This week, we cover the latest news from Meta: AI-enabled smart glasses, a VR headset, and an army of fresh chatbots.