T-Mobile CEO John Legere says a small fraction of his customers are "stealing data," and he is putting his foot down -- hard. In an open letter to T-Mobile customers with an unusually furious tone, Legere said that some customers are using ...

Athletes today use increasingly complex technologies to enhance performance. We have seen considerable leaps forward in sporting performance as a direct result of technology either used during competition or in training. The big question is which tec ...

Since last winter, after laying to rest the blowhard host of The Colbert Report and inheriting Letterman’s seat on The Late Show, the most inventive comic of his generation has been consumed with one very large question: Who will he be now? Stephen C ...

It appears that New Zealand is finally ready to throw their domestic coal habit into Mount Doom — by 2018, the country will cease to use coal as a source of domestic energy production. “Historically coal has played an important role in ensuring the s ...

Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, estimated at almost a foot and a half in diameter. And ...

Over the weekend, Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits. The changes are designed to limit the ability for customers to share Amazon Prime su ...

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top br ...

Microsoft will release "V1" of its HoloLens virtual reality headset sooner rather than later. CEO Satya Nadella said that the first developer version of the hologram-projecting device will come out "within the next year" during a ...

A Japanese distillery is sending some of its world-renowned whisky into outer space. Tokyo-based Suntory, a brewing and distillery company, announced today that it will send six samples of its whiskies and other alcohols to the International Space St ...

GitHub this week raised $250 million from prominent Silicon Valley venture firms, the company said. The infusion raised its valuation to about $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

A spot of consolidation in the online dating space today, with Match Group, the subsidiary of Tinder and OkCupid owner IAC, announcing it has agreed to..

Nick Santillo was born with half a heart, but he puts all of it into his love of John Cena, the 15-time World Wrestling Entertainment champ who has been the face of the brand for more than a decade. “He’s my hero,” says Nick, who lives in Runnemede, ...

In 718 a Buddhist monk had a vision of opening a spa. As legend has it, a monk named Taicho Daishi had hiked up a sacred mountain and dreamt that he was told of an underground hot spring nearby. “With the people of the village unearth the hot spring, ...

Hmm, you may think that there’s nothing wrong with your keyboard, but in all likelihood there is. I’m guessing that it’s an unshapely beast with cheap keys; one that probably came with your computer.

It was usually evening when the three men arrived at the shop. They would roll up in a Volkswagen Beetle, and come to a halt at a nondescript, garage-sized warehouse in a strip of shops in a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, in Southwestern Me ...

Postmates has an ambitious goal: $1 deliveries in under an hour. To help it get there, the on-demand courier service has raised more capital.

A front page led by the day’s biggest news. A selection of stories, chosen by editors, arranged more or less by importance. And inside, a bundle of sections highlighting various subjects: arts and entertainment, business, technology, and health. That ...

I would like to note, that I am filing a class-action lawsuit against this lady for all the damage "her" sun has caused around the world. Everything from unwanted sunburns, to the deaths of humans and animals due to the heat from "her& ...

Damn that was a close call!

Robots are immune to pain, don’t have to breathe, and depending on how they’re designed, can go places humans can’t. They’re also, as my colleague Erik Sofge notes, about as good at walking as toddlers. Sofge is present to witness DARPA’s rescue robo ...