Are memes fair use? Or can you be sued for sharing and profiting off them?

A large study of drinking habits in 195 countries contradicts widely shared advice on healthy drinking.

These military bots that mimic snakes, birds, and insects have a "Black Mirror" vibe.

Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.” Would that put a damper on your rel…

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside.

If a recent poll conducted by the US market research company CivicScience is to be taken at face value, roughly one out of every two Americans doesn't think Arabic numerals should be taught as part of the curriculum in US schools.

Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are incredibly convenient—but increasingly at the center of a lot of security lapses.

Short version: It is, but it won't die tomorrow, and you can still book exceptional first-class seats on points and miles.

Do you think your email on Gmail is private? If so, you may want to think again, as your Gmail messages are being scanned by Google for purchases, which are then displayed in your Google account.

The science, however, is clear — getting us to net zero will require a role for all technologies and saying otherwise is simply another form of climate denial.

Some very sad news. Grumpy Cat, the Internet’s most famous feline with a perpetually grouchy mug, has died. Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, died on Tuesday...

For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as "The Dish" had not been able to figure out the source of a strange, vexing interference. For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as "The Dish" had not been able to figure out the source of a strange, vexing interference. Simon Johnston, head of astrophysics at the CSIRO, the national science agency, told the Guardian that a couple of times a year signals known as perytons were detected "within five kilometers" of the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales.

Canberra will be effectively powered by renewable energy from October 1, according to the ACT's Climate Change Minister.

A Senate committee plans to question the companies on how algorithms and machine learning on internet platforms influence the public.

A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed—by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich manuscript.

A film exposing sex abuse by Catholic priests also exposes the corrupting ties between the church and the ruling political party.

A top regulator came close Thursday, but ultimately backed away from directly raising the notion of giving the boot to exhaust-belching automobiles.

In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.

A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft spotted the probable remains of an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon last month.

Bedbugs -- some of the most unwanted human bed-mates -- have been parasitic companions with other species aside from humans for more than 100 million years, walking the earth at the same time as dinosaurs.

China's closest ideological neighbor wants its own 5G network.

Scientists want to ‘take away the fear’ by halting mutation of cells, even in advanced cases

It's a key victory for tenants who didn't want smart locks and apps tracking their activities.

In a first for a city in the United States, San Francisco has voted to ban its government agencies from using facial recognition technology. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted eight to one to approve the proposal, set to take effect in a month, that would bar city agencies, including law enforcement, from using the tool. The ordinance would also require city agencies to get board approval for their use of surveillance technology, and set up audits of surveillance tech already in use. Other cities have approved similar transparency measures.

Four of the states — Iowa, Maryland, Wisconsin and West Virginia — also sued the company's former president Richard Sackler.

Even though kids these days are spending more and more times staring into their phones, television screen time is still a dominant source of entertainment for kids 2-11 years old.

Trump boosters are baffled: Hustler and scam artist who raised $20 million on GoFundMe isn't really building a wall

How is this man growing vegetables in the most northerly major human settlement on Earth.

Zombieload, another Intel processor side-channel attack, just like Meltdown and Spectre before it, poses a security threat for Linux system and all others for that matter. Here's what the Linux vendors and developers are doing about it.

A new documentary revealing new cases of pedophilia by priests has deeply shaken Poland, one of Europe's most Roman Catholic societies, eliciting an apology from the church hierarchy and prompting one priest to leave the clergy.