Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for developing internal electrical shorts that can ignite a battery’s liquid electrolytes, leading to explosions and fires.

When I heard there’s a new banking app starting to trend, I had to take a look.I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t looked at banking options for awhile I figured “they‘re all bad if you really look into it, so why bother?”. Actually… they’ll pay you AND a charity $25 each if you try it, so now you kinda have to for the sake of the children (or whatever).

Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.

RuNet disconnection tests were successful, according to the Russian government.

Augmented reality will soon be used to give surgeons a type of x-ray vision -- and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just given it the green light. Augmedics' new Xvision Spine System lets surgeons visualize the 3D spinal anatomy of a patient while operating.

In 2019, gig workers across the United States suffered a series of changes to their pay algorithm that have left many scrambling to pay for food and utilities, and seeking assistance from charities over the holidays.

Drivers can become more likely to misuse it.

A look inside the numbers behind Xbox Live’s freebies

Section 230 of the 1996 US Telecoms Act is just 26 words long – but its impact has been incalculable

The suits that kept Nasa’s astronauts alive in the cold void of space were sewn, one painstaking stitch at a time, by a talented team of expert seamstresses.

The secret to cleaning up contaminated water may lie in the cheap, common polyurethane foam used in mattresses. In a study published in the journal Nature Sustainability this week, scientists tested the ability of the material, enhanced with a special coating, to soak up tiny droplets of oil suspended in water. They found that it consistently captured almost all of the oil in under three hours.

San Francisco — Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft Corp., has earned a unique place among the tech barons who preside over today’s digital landscape. The growing wealth and power of Big Tech over the last decade has been a defining feature of modern capitalism. Yet even judged by the standards of most of his peers, Nadella stands out.

Uber had more than 2.3 million users and worked with 88,000 drivers in Colombia.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved SpaceX’s request to increase the number of lanes its Starlink satellites can orbit, a modification the company said would accelerate service rollout across the United States. The FCC said SpaceX can field satellites in 72 rings around the Earth at 550 kilometers — three times as many as the commission approved in April.

The accommodation-booking service Airbnb does not need an estate agent's licence to operate in France, Europe's top court has ruled. The French tourism association had complained that Airbnb did not comply with French property laws. It means the app's users avoid a threat of disruption to its service in the country.

EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

A report from Digitimes today says that Apple is planning to include a more advanced image stabilization component in the high-end 2020 iPhone models. The iPhone has included optical image stabilization for a while now, and sensor shift hardware improvements continues that trend.

On a rainy Tuesday afternoon in November, members of the newly formed Arizona Task Force on Countering Disinformation met at a conference room in downtown Phoenix’s Arizona State Courts Building to discuss ways to counter disinformation directed at the state’s judicial system.

Facial recognition systems can produce wildly inaccurate results, especially for non-whites, according to a US government study released Thursday that is likely to raise fresh doubts on deployment of the artificial intelligence technology. The study of dozens of facial recognition algorithms showed

I don’t think President Trump gets the best legal advice. On Thursday morning, he sent out a couple of tweets that indicate that he doesn’t understand either the Constitution or what Nancy Pelosi is attempting to do by passing two articles of impeachment and then refusing to send them immediately to the Senate.

Ring, the camera-equipped smart doorbell company, has given consumers a lot of very good reasons not to buy its products over the last two weeks. Though Ring has generally earned scrutiny for quietly converting neighborhoods into DIY surveillance states, it’s the devices’ security flaws that have bedeviled the Amazon subsidiary in recent days.

The old-style PC is on its way out. It's being replaced by desktop-as-a-service, cloud-based PCs.

The vote on the abuse of power article will be followed by one on obstruction of Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump had left Congress “no choice” but to proceed with impeachment.

Dumpster divers say it’s easy to list discarded toys, electronics and books on the retailer’s platform, where just about anyone can set up shop. So we decided to try.

California has more than 150,000 miles of overhead power lines. Drones searching for downed lines could inspect the system a lot faster than human counterparts and alert crews to where they’re needed.

On a recent Saturday morning, two young girls stood in front of a large case with glass walls in the produce section of a QFC (Quality Food Centers) grocery store in Bellevue, Washington. They stared up at plants arranged under bright lights, then turned to fill a bag with sugar snap peas. Their curiosity was shared by many other customers as they took in the newest addition to the grocery store: a vertical farm.

The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL’s Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were “away.”

Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations.

Through science, art and technology, we are able to reconstruct the faces of the dead based on their remains. The researcher who did this work for descendants in Sutherland explains the process.