The Lifesaving Potential of Underwater Earthquake Monitors
Sending sensors deep into the ocean could allow for earlier and more accurate tsunami warnings.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump Still Tweeting From His Unsecured Android Phone?
If so, he’s extremely vulnerable to being hacked.
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Mark Beach / Fresco News / Reuters Can Uber Survive Without Self-Driving Cars?
After a high-speed crash in Arizona, the ride-hailing giant grounds its autonomous fleet.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Who Owns Your Face?
Advertising companies, tech giants, data collectors, and the federal government, it turns out.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters When Fingerprints Are as Easy to Steal as Passwords
As hackers learn to imitate the body's unique features, scientists might turn to brainwaves and genomics to verify people's identities.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?
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Not Wanting to Be a Token in Tech
Two readers are very wary of hiring practices in Silicon Valley that strongly take gender into account. Here’s Sally: …
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AP How the Diving Bell Opened the Ocean's Depths
The simple device ushered in a new age of exploration—and burst many ear drums in the process. An Object Lesson.
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Everything Game / Ian Bogost The Video Game That Claims Everything Is Connected
Instead, it shows how individual and unique things really are.
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Becoming ‘Everyone’s Little Sister’ to Deal With Sexism
A reader with a Ph.D. in physics has been working in the tech industry for many years, but she’s…
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Reuters What Happens If Uber Fails?
Even if the ride-sharing service goes under, it won't necessarily set off a bubble-popping chain reaction.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters How the Rise of Electronics Has Made Smuggling Bombs Easier
New restrictions on flights from the Middle East reflect how just about anything with power can be turned into an explosive.
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Screenshot from C-SPAN What Happens When the President Is a Publisher, Too?
With platforms like Twitter, Donald Trump is able to disrupt congressional hearings in real time.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters The Like Button Ruined the Internet
How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles: 17 Hours Without a Laptop
DHS has banned carry-on devices larger than a smartphone on flights from 10 airports across the Middle East.
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Kim Kulish / Corbis / Getty Hacking Tools Get Peer Reviewed, Too
A government-led effort paves the way for data extracted from electronic devices to be accepted as evidence in court.
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Wikimedia / donatas1205 / Billion Photos / vgeny ... How Aristotle Created the Computer
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world.
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Wayne Parry / AP How Monopoly’s New Tokens Betray Its History
The metal thimble has a very particular Depression-era provenance.
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Windhorse Aerospace Tech Start-Ups Have Become Conceptual Art
An edible drone doesn’t need to feed the starving to do its job.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump's Cyber Skepticism Hasn't Stopped Charges Against Foreign Hackers
The Justice Department has indicted four Russians for their roles in a cyberattack on Yahoo that compromised half a billion user accounts.
