This summer's bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary lives possible. The fires cut road access, which meant towns ran out of fuel and fell low on food. Power to towns was cut and mobile phone services stopped working. So too did the ATMs and EFTPOS services the economy needs to keep running.

To understand how some companies have lost their souls, consider what happened after a bank in the US stiffed a customer before Christmas.

Call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—the tendency to distance yourself from people with whom you have a large wealth differential.

To see how your experience compares, answer some of the questions that were posed to 101 black teenagers as part of a study measuring the racism they face on a daily basis.

Pro tip: AI trained on human faces has no idea how to generate glasses, jewelry, or backgrounds.

Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.

The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.

Asking someone's age is rude and inappropriate. Unless there is a solid reason for you to know, find something else to talk about.

Hong Kong extradition bill: Carrie Lam backs down and 'suspends' legislation, sets no new time frame

“I hope it changes. I hope I’m wrong. I’m not holding my breath.”

Bond was always well-dressed, no matter what the climate. Often you see him in his signature light grey suit in tropical climates.

Would the Internet be a better place if we all paid a little less attention to fake Internet points? Instagram is still trying to figure it out. Just a few months back, Instagram started testing a design tweak that would no longer show the total number of “likes” other user’s post…

You get trapped in your own triviality, in the mind numbing packaging and distribution of the minutiae of your day

Matchmaking sites have officially surpassed friends and family in the world of dating, injecting modern romance with a dose of radical individualism. Maybe that’s the problem.

In the 1970s a group of determined women set out to put the theory of women's liberation into practice.

Key to the success of the much-lauded Fleabag is its creator's repurposing of two cliched narrative devices: flashback and breaking the fourth wall.

Low-income families face the same issues the luckier among us do when it comes to getting broadband: few options and fewer still that are affordable. Comcast, though simultaneously the source of many of these issues, has a good program for anyone facing financial hardship, and several new groups no…

When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless networks from the ground up in order to provide affordable and high-speed internet to prevent the creation of a digital class system.

A close look at a strangely global idiom about how little we understand each other.

“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries. That’s not entirely a good thing.