Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months. It’s a reckoning, or computation, on what mattered to society in any given year — and sometimes even signal ...

The biggest photo and video sharing social network in the world is doubling down on voice messaging.

WordPress is releasing a new version allowing users to easily use it as a full-featured CMS out of the box, not just as a blogging platform.

In the mid-20th century, with a new millennium looming, some science-fiction writers and human-interest reporters began speculating wildly about what humanity’s future might look like....

A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly.

The biggest roadblock to your productivity is the smartphone on your desk.

The ban includes explicit sexual content and nudity with some exceptions.

Money lenders offering services like Afterpay are demanding that customers send naked selfies as collateral.

Yes, it’s ethically complicated.

The hotel chain says details of up to 500 million guests may have been accessed in a database breach.

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies — twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap ...

A neuroscientist’s research into the mysteries of motion helps a paralyzed woman escape her body.

Big tech has ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes the former US labor secretary

Blames an ‘industry database’ that failed to filter prohibited content.

A homeless man and couple who crowdfunded thousands have been charged with conspiracy and theft.

Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which would serve as a “Higgs boson factory,” as its proponents have called it.

Study of remote communities in Venezuelan rainforest sheds fresh light on hypertension

DeepMasterPrints created by a machine learning technique have error rate of only one in five

Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.

A group of experienced lawyers pitted their skills and knowledge against an algorithm, and the results reveal much about how artificial intelligence is shaking up industries.