The Android version gains fine-grained tracking protection to minimize website glitches, while iOS finally gets search suggestions and autocomplete for popular URLs. | Continue reading
From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking its toll on all of us. | Continue reading
Contrary to appearances, it’s still possible to stare down the tech giants. And in 2018, Fortnite proved it. | Continue reading
Amazon is gaslighting us with the false promise of two-day shipping. | Continue reading
Zombie posts keep Russian propaganda alive on Facebook’s photo platform, and researchers say they still lack crucial data surrounding the platform’s impact. | Continue reading
With a snail and flamethrowers, The Boring Company founder unveiled a prototype tunnel outside SpaceX’s California headquarters. “If you can dig it here, you can dig it anywhere.” | Continue reading
These maps helped visualize all the happiness, heartbreak, terror, and turmoil that 2018 has wrought. | Continue reading
The collaboration with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab points to the future of customizable fashion. | Continue reading
In an exclusive interview, founder Yvon Chouinard talks about how the new mission will reshape how the company does business. | Continue reading
The platform’s young stars can rake in five-figure sums for a photo. It’s about “building brand awareness and affinity through generations,” says one expert. | Continue reading
Prada, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton fared poorly on a new report about forced labor. Meanwhile Adidas, Lululemon, and Gap had the most slavery-free supply chains. | Continue reading
Everyone wants your data. Here’s how to protect it. | Continue reading
The NBA star spun his moon landing hoax comments into a lesson for the kids: “I am going to educate myself firsthand on everything that NASA has done.” | Continue reading
Volunteers are scrambling to download up to 800 terabytes of content from Tumblr’s adult-themed community before it disappears from view on December 17. | Continue reading
Urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it’s shockingly easy to “reidentify” the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in cities. | Continue reading
Google will shut down its hybrid database-spreadsheet product effective next year. | Continue reading
David Magerman, the ex-RenTech partner who criticized Robert Mercer, prompted Facebook to go on the attack. Now he’s joining Differential Ventures to invest in tech. | Continue reading
Mozilla has put its most advanced features in its lesser-known desktop and mobile browsers. Here’s how the latest versions work, and how to make the most of them. | Continue reading
Software company Wildbit decided it was good business to work smarter, not harder. | Continue reading
This seems like a good way to give Netflix more business. | Continue reading
The company announced “Alexa Answers,” in which users will start providing answers to questions the digital assistant doesn’t yet know. | Continue reading
Rob Goldstone, the British music publicist who sent the infamous email to Donald Trump Jr. that set up the Trump Tower meeting, still has plenty of questions about what really happened. | Continue reading
The documents show Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials wrestling with how best to monetize user data. | Continue reading
Meet three up-and-coming apps that promise to make email more modern, efficient, and effective. | Continue reading
Amazon is reportedly looking into expanding its cashier-less technology so it works in larger stores. | Continue reading
Good news for YouPorn? | Continue reading
Managing director Alex Gawley and entrepreneurial Googlers explain how the two-year-old program helps bright ideas go places. | Continue reading
Your brain is wired to pay attention to bad news. Here’s how to hack that. | Continue reading
The city of Manchester can ignore its residents, but thanks to Wanksy, it can’t ignore the one-eyed monster. | Continue reading
Sound therapies have long been used to help us cope. | Continue reading
The companies’ disclosures do not meet the state’s strict election transparency rules, say regulators. A lobbying group called the decision “disappointing.” | Continue reading
“Good, Cheap and Fast” is designed for satisficers, not maximizers. (We’ll explain.) | Continue reading
NASA is returning to the moon with a mix of potential firms to share the costs. “This time, no kidding, we’re going to go,” said the agency’s chief. | Continue reading
People who like L.L.Bean and Wrangler were more susceptible to Trump’s populist messaging, says whistleblower Chistopher Wylie. | Continue reading
Hello, fellow kid consumers. | Continue reading
The Jeff Bezos backlash has begun. | Continue reading
Backstage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you could hear a pin drop as the InSight lander descended to Mars without a hitch. | Continue reading
The president is speaking in pessimistic terms of his high-stakes trade talks with China coming up in four days. | Continue reading
Early detection systems could help firefighters combat blazes, aid in recovery, and prevent wildfires from starting to begin with. | Continue reading
Two years after Apple removed the iPhone’s headphone jack, life without it still sucks. | Continue reading
Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society. | Continue reading
With a floor for working, another for sleeping, and a greenhouse on the top, the Tikku house is designed to replace a city’s parking spots with living space. | Continue reading
After an earlier attempt, the probe landing on Mars on November 26 will explore what’s inside the Red Planet to better grasp our Solar System’s history. | Continue reading
If we want to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, industries like steel and shipping have to clean up their acts. The good news: That’s far from impossible. | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that our purchasing decisions have any impact on the fashion industry. But this week, we saw that they do. | Continue reading
“This is where there needs to be debate,” says a former analyst for one of the firms helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement gather personal data. | Continue reading
How an outlawed form of institutionalized discrimination is being quietly upgraded for the 21st century. | Continue reading
An animal rights group is using a novel legal strategy to try and free an elephant from the Bronx Zoo. | Continue reading