A BIPARTISAN GROUP of six U.S. senators is demanding that Google CEO Sundar Pochai explain the company’s plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. Since spring 2017, the internet giant has been developing a censored Android search app to launch...

  In an excerpt from her memoir, Small Fry, the author reflects on Jobs’s privacy, his temper, and watching a legend grow before her eyes. Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father’s house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects...

“It’s usually a pretty popular endeavor. When news broke Friday morning, via a local television reporter on Twitter, that about 100 goats were roaming around a residential neighborhood outside of Boise, Idaho, suffice it to say we had questions. Then the Washington...

It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there's a delta between perception and reality...

  My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I...

It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other....

GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway...

Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help. In this useful talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to's of powerful speaking — from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that...

Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwoch or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Mochael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts....

WASHINGTON — Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages that are believed to be engaging in political activity ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to...

The company turns in its lowest profit growth in a year. Samsung is feeling the pain from the smartphone slowdown. The South Korean electronics giant on Monday reported a 6 percent rise in operating profit, its lowest profit growth in more than a year. It also logged...

What's stopping the American government from recording your phone calls, reading your emails and monitoring your location? Very little, says surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick....