In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.

There are over 140,000 miles of privately-owned standard-gauge rail in the United States, vital to the transportation of billions of tons of freight and people. Occasionally, it gets really cold where some of those train tracks sit. Like right now, in Chicago, where Wednesday’s high temperature is expected to be thirteen degrees below zero. Those temperatures are potentially deadly for humans, and deforming for the long pieces of metal that trains ride on.

Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave. Poverty and loneliness are two of the possible causes.

European Chemicals Agency draft law aims to cut 400,000 tonnes of plastic pollution

Product to go on sale in Germany in 2019, globally in 2020.

George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed.

In a terrible abuse of YouTube's copyright system, a YouTuber is reporting that scammers are using the platform's "three strike" system for extortion. After filing two false claims against ObbyRaidz, the scammers contacted him demanding cash to avoid a third - and the termination of his channel.

With the tourism explosion affecting even smaller cities such as Porto, visitors and locals alike are looking for more ‘authentic’ days out. But is that possible?

Would become first in the nation to ban the tech

Version 65.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 29, 2019. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…

Dr Yang Hengjun is that rare combination of a scholar superbly trained in China and the West.

Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.

The long read: If you’re worrying about the amount of protein in your diet, then you’re almost certainly eating more than enough

Week 3: Google

David Wimsett's resume is expansive, and potential employers are always keen to meet with him. When they finally do, however, the interviewer's disposition quickly switches from enthusiastic to disappointed.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have found a way to trick the eye into thinking the world is brighter than it actually is.

Undercover film raises fears of serious health risks from major EU exporting country

For every successful, hot-selling invention, there are a million others that don’t make it. But what does ‘failure’ really mean?

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media.

Apple decided several years ago to produce a high-end Mac in Texas. The problems that surfaced illustrate the challenges of domestic manufacturing.

In public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to automate.

Bill Gates said in his year-end letter last month that he planned to work to persuade U.S. leaders to embrace advanced nuclear technologies as a solution to curbing climate change. That work appears to have begun as The Washington Post reported Friday that Gates is making the rounds on Capitol Hill looking for support — and billions of dollars. Gates founded the Bellevue, Wash.-based TerraPower in 2006, and the venture had been working toward building a pilot project for its traveling-wave nuclear technology in China.

In a lawsuit, the state targets eight members of the Sackler family.

One of Earth's oldest rocks may have been dug up on the moon. A chunk of material brought back from the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts in 1971 harbors a tiny piece of Earth, a new study suggests. The Earth fragment was likely blasted off our planet by a powerful impact about 4 billion years ago, according to the new research.

Steven Pruitt has made nearly 3 million edits on Wikipedia and written 35,000 original articles -- all for free

The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan.

Will these people never learn?

Today marks the 35th anniversary of Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs unveiling the original Macintosh.