Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and will appear in New York court on Monday to be charged with sex trafficking, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

France has pushed forward with plans to tax the revenue of internet giants, while Boris Johnson indicated his support for a similar idea in Britain.

Proponents of the law say it’s necessary to avoid confusing consumers. That...doesn’t sound right.

The roach populations not only survived the chemical assaults, but ultimately grew stronger. In some cases, they even saw their populations grow.

"The American people deserve to understand how their personal data is being used."

They have pledged to help fix U.S. recycling, but for decades the companies have fought against “bottle bills,” which result in more bottles and cans being recycled but are costly for the industry.

The Wall Street Journal has formed a committee to help reporters navigate fake content, or "deepfakes."

Analysts find system often wrongly identifies people and could breach human rights law

Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the allowed orbits of its electrons. That fingerprint enables scientists to identify an atom wherever it is found. A hydrogen atom in outer space absorbs light at the same energies as one on Earth.

The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world’s smallest magnetic resonance image.

Anyone who bought ebooks through the Microsoft Store is in for a rude shock in the coming days. The good news? You can get a refund. The bad news? All of your books are going to be deleted this month.

Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive?

The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Now a single-user ban has exposed the deep rifts between Wikipedia's libertarian origins and its egalitarian aspirations, and threatened that stability.

An expensive phone and limited coverage is a combo you want to skip for now.

In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms. The devices purport to identify stress and anger before violence erupts. Our testing found them less than reliable.

Raspberry Pi platform has become an attractive starting point for those foraying into hosting a Bitcoin full node for the very first time.

Many Chinese people find that when they go overseas and leave behind the Great Firewall, they crave a return to the heavily censored content they're accustomed to consuming online.

Bill Gates talks about Paul Allen at the Forbes Philanthropy Summit, where he was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.

The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.

U.S. president says he’s envious Russia doesn’t have a “fake news” problem, on first anniversary of Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom shooting that killed five.

China's Sunway TaihuLight theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops.

Move is a shift in efforts to balance its ideological commitment to free expression with rules against harassment and hate speech

As a society, we sit too much. We sit in the car, we sit at our desks, and we flop down on the couch when we get home. But not all sitting is made equal. Each of these approaches to sitting poses a very different risk to heart health, according to research published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The agency plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan, a moon of Saturn with some crucial ingredients for habitability.

Located in a forest on the mountains of Almaty in Kazakhstan, architect Aibek Almasov of A.Masow Design Studio has designed a concept for a modern

Last week the Wall Street Journal broke the story that McDonald’s is testing robotic deep fryers and voice-activated drive-thrus at a location in suburban Chicago. The story didn’t lay out a ton of details. We don’t know what the robotic fryer will look like — whether it’s akin to Miso Robotic’s Flippy, which fries tater tots with an articulating arm, or if it’s more of an automated basket that dips and raises from hot oil. Likewise, all we know about the new drive-thru tech is that it’s a type of voice recognition technology.

Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you’re gone. Unless you’re a member of the r/TheDonald subreddit.

A former senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia doubts Facebook's cryptocurrency will take control of monetary policy away from central banks.