Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction

The news: In a fresh spin on manufactured pop, OpenAI has released a neural network called Jukebox that can generate catchy songs in a variety of different styles, from teenybop and country to hip-hop and heavy metal.

And if a devastating deepfake does emerge, it'll hit at the last moment.

The 'Last Week Tonight' host took a deep dive into the USPS' financial woes on Sunday's episode.

“Sonification” could help researchers identify binding sites for new drugs

Kidney damage, blood clots and even "covid toes" prompt reassessment of the disease and how it should be treated.

For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it's a name for our modern condition

"When it is all said and done, the real change brought about by the coronavirus won’t be a back-to-the-kitchen movement. It will be a rush toward hyper-convenience at mealtime that could make us more reliant than ever on food prepared by other people."

How immigration, ingenuity and the American spirit shaped a US fried chicken “war” that’s been simmering for four generations.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has been surveilling content posted by foreign users on its wildly popular messaging service WeChat in order to help it refine censorship on its platform at home, according to a new report.

Apple will produce millions of its popular AirPods wireless earphones in Vietnam for the first time this quarter, sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asian Review, in a sign the company is accelerating its diversification of production out of China amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some 3 million to 4 million units, or around 30% of total classic AirPods production this quarter, will be "made in Vietnam," the sources said.

Lyft, Uber and Airbnb depend on travel, vacations and gatherings. That’s a problem when much of the world is staying home.

Give yourself over to a rhythm that is not your own.

America’s biggest meat processor says food supply chain is ‘breaking’ and millions of pounds of meat will vanish from grocery stores

Impossible Foods is making its plant-based "beef" grounds available at over 1700 Kroger stores across the US, the company announced on Tuesday.

As the sun set on a recent evening in Rutherfordton, N.C., the author Beth Revis drove her green S.U.V. into the parking lot of a closed elementary school and connected to the building’s free Wi-Fi. Then, for the third time since the coronavirus pandemic had taken hold, she taught a two-hour writing class from her driver’s seat.

The ride-hailing companies are accused of defying a new state law that says gig workers should be treated as employees.

Every four years, sports enthusiasts are passionately waiting for the Olympics Games or the FIFA World Cup. The Bitcoin community has its own much-awaited event that occurs every four years or so – it’s the Bitcoin halving, also referred to as halvening. If you’re watching crypto news, you may notice the fuss about the upcoming halving. Indeed, Google searches for the term “Bitcoin Halving” surged to an all-time high.

The private information of some 4.5 million Israeli citizens, including biometric facial features, stored in the Transportation Ministry database for drivers licenses and a private database for smart biometric bus cards, is not getting the highest-level encryption and security to prevent data breaches or exploit attempts, found a report by the State Comptroller, writes the Jerusalem Post.

People who avoid meat consumption tend to have worse psychological health than those who eat meat, according to new research published in Critical Reviews ...

As governments search in vain for a technological silver bullet that will contain COVID-19 and allow people to safely leave their homes, officials are increasingly turning to drones. Some have floated using them to enforce social distancing, break up or monitor places where gatherings of people are...

A Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust.

The platform says Mr Icke repeatedly violated its policies by posting misleading videos about Covid-19.

The food delivery company is a case study in the destructive nature of its own ‘disruptive’ business mode, says James Ball, the global editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Following similar decisions from European agencies.

Researchers in Rennes are developing a new digital system to detect infections in premature babies and help safeguard them. #Futuris

Overclockers, start your engines.

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.

Despite the amount of scandals it’s safe to say most people don’t care about their data being monitored by social media.

Here's the WIRED guide to catch you up on everything you should know about robotics.