More companies are using automated job screening systems to vet candidates, forcing jobseekers to learn new and absurd tricks to have their résumés seen by a human.

Digital phenotyping, which can detect patterns from text messages, movements, and even our speech, could transform health care. But is our personal information at stake?

The country is being run by an unfettered class of superpredators. It's time we started treating them that way.

EEGs successfully picked out which depressed individuals got better on the drug Zoloft

Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation.

If you misplace your phone or wallet in Tokyo, chances are very good that you’ll get it back. Here’s why.

Smartphones aren’t the only killers of work-life balance.

The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal if a vulnerability was used. That has activists and lawyers concerned.

Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied, three states of mind that make you more vulnerable to advertising and other forms of behavioral manipulation. Small wonder, the…

A psychology study analyzed nearly 200,000 text messages from people who had previously tried to kill themselves and found that rising anger and diminished positive emotion in their communications coincided with attempted suicide.

You’ve seen it before: A friend, acquaintance, coworker or random high school friend posts on social media about chemtrails or dubious science on global warming or a side-eye questioning of whether the pay gap is real. Commenters or friends rush in to question the faulty thinking—but instead of examining what’s being said and rejiggering their worldview, the original poster doubles down, pivoting to any other argument that solidifies their original point. What’s behind the double-down, and why is it so hard to resist?

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific background.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the revenues in his first quarterly earnings release as head of company.

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

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A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar…

President Donald Trump is set to request a budget of $25.6 billion for NASA for its fiscal 2021 operating year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. It’s looking for nearly $3 billion more than the $22.6 billion NASA had for its current fiscal year, and the bulk of the new funding is said to be earmarked for development of new human lunar landers.

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga

Despite a growing number of high-tech tools, law enforcement agencies don’t seem to want to disclose what they’re using.

Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map. But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping up that I'd never heard of before, and they were often publishing directly plagiarized pieces from real outlets,” he told BuzzFeed News.

The Intercept reports that TikTok waited nearly three hours after being notified of an apparent livestreamed suicide to notify local law enforcement.

Mitt Romney broke with Republicans and voted to remove the president.

The number appeared on social media posts of caucus results and ended up on 4chan

Opinion: It was incompetence, not politics, that led to the Iowa caucus app misfiring. Above all, it was poor programming. Open-source software techniques could have prevented this blunder.

Ignore business books which promise to reveal the secret formula of success – usually it's down to luck.

Despite regulatory scrutiny and pressure from lawmakers, the industry’s wealthiest are continuing to grow at remarkable speeds for big companies.

By pulling 99 phones down empty streets, artist Simon Wreckert made it look like they were gridlocked on Google Maps.

Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it knows which parts of them I liked the most

"I've got about 150 messages from other precinct chairs in my county asking questions about the app in the lead up to last night."

Patrick Mahomes keeps rewriting the NFL history books, and the wait for the Chiefs -- and for their head coach -- is finally over.