Technology

The former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his predecessors.

The story behind the beloved subsonic, twin-engine plane.

I'd rather handwrite every document I submit.

Fear of crowds in small spaces in the pandemic is spurring new norms and technological changes for the people-moving machines that make skyscrapers possible.

On this episode of Sleeping With Friends, a contestant tests out the Somnox sleep robot to help themselves doze off.

Japan's Gakutensoku was a giant pneumatic automaton that toured through Asia — until it mysteriously disappeared.

Sometimes a little aid from a machinery goes a long way.

How to deal with HEIC images proves to be the hardest question of all.

The employment of robots like this might play a huge role in agriculture in the future.

NASA's new way of business could spark a shift in the spaceflight paradigm.

The hyper-local social media platform Nextdoor is winning over local law enforcement and other government officials in the US, alarming civil rights advocates.

The high-tech device boasts a field of view and reaction time similar to that of real eyes

BlackBerry went from controlling the global smartphone market to the bottom of the scrap heap in one of the greatest falls from grace in business history.

Apparently, this setup is reminiscent of the way phonograph cylinders work.

"Overpromise, and underdeliver" has become a running theme of crowdfunders.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO's response to the coronavirus pandemic is starting to alienate his fans.

For people in the military, neither drinking beer nor using social media is newsworthy on its own. But Untappd users log hundreds, often thousands of time-stamped location data points.

For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.

Amid toilet paper shortages, many Americans are making the switch — but does all the fuss about bidets really hold water?

Imagine this: the year is 2013. You've got 25 billion dollars you'd like to flush down the toilet, but your personal commode simply can't handle an entire cargo plane full of 100-dollar bills. Luckily for you, Uber is there.

From Black Voices to MySpace to Instagram, black creativity has defined social media from the start.

There's a fully functional operating system for Raspberry Pi called iRaspbian that looks nearly identical to MacOS.

Fed up with the rising cost and declining quality of Apple laptops, I migrated to Microsoft. It has been both a total joy and a complete pain in the neck.

Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.

Turns out not everything was meant to be viewed in 4K.

People ignore text messages when they come repeatedly. Even incredibly important ones.

If anything, it's the opposite — executives are using meetings to make sure their employees are working, while employees are using it to eat it up calendar time.

GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal.

For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook's problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.

America is supposed to be the world leader in medical innovation. Is it paying off during the coronavirus crisis?

Waymo is still the one to beat. But in a post-COVID world, autonomous will enable more of our contactless needs.

Jony Ive's gone. Now Apple faces a decade of huge design challenges. Can it create new desirable products instead of trading on former glories?

"It was an all-day game. I was thinking about it almost an obsessive amount."

Maybe you're not craving alone time; maybe, you're craving social novelty. That's where the most chaotic video platform of all time comes in: enter Chatroulette.

Both Amazon and Google run businesses that make gobs of money from things that have nothing at all to do with making gadgets. And yet, each company thinks it's important to produce consumer electronics. Why?

There's something unsettling about this video but I can't put my finger on it.

An explanation of how contact tracing apps can work without compromising privacy.

The idea of beaming solar energy to Earth with radio waves is decades old. But this weekend, the technology gets its first test in orbit.

Radiohead were one of the first bands to build their own website. Now, they've created an archive of all their digital iterations in an attempt to make something that lasts.

Pontiac's streamlined concept had many features that have only recently made it onto your driveway.

Plastic pollution threatens marine life, humans and ecosystems. Enter FRED, a future vacuum of the seas.

Alienware has announced a new hardware refresh for its Area-51m gaming laptop. But the new CPU and GPU parts won't be available for the first-gen model, which promised future-proof user-upgradable parts as a key selling point.

At 70 trillion frames per second, it's fast enough to document nuclear fusion and radioactive molecule decay.

2020 could be the year that hype comes back to bite the developers of self-driving cars.

The wireless headphones have been a surprise hit. Here's why.

Eric Moore shows off how to play games on a computer he restored from the 1960s. Incredibly, the system ran a natural gas pipeline station from 1969 to 2006.

To reopen, the US needs to quickly train and deploy thousands of people to track potential COVID-19 infections — because technology alone can't do the job.

The phone is said to be codenamed "Wing," and has a main 6.8-inch display alongside a smaller 4-inch screen.

What happens if you replace Samuel L. Jackson's voice with the calm dulcet tones of Bob Ross during the tensest scene in "Pulp Fiction"?

Researchers have come up with a new format of digital memory that could usher in a class of smaller, more powerful devices. Here's how it works.

There are a lot of conspiracies surrounding 5G, but here's how the telecommunication technology actually works and what are its issues.

Some mathematicians believed pure mathematics could solve anything, but it turns out that even computers have their limits.

The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device and it affects any PC manufactured before 2019.

Daniel Chan has stumped billionaires, CEOs and engineers with his technology-driven tricks. Now, technology is changing the nature of his show.

Harold White left NASA in December to join a new nonprofit focused on building the technologies to bring humans to the outer solar system and beyond.

Today's state-of-the-art driverless vehicles have origins dating back to the 1920s, including one automaker who feuded with Harry Houdini.

Restaurants expect to lose $240 billion by the end of the year, but for Grubhub, "COVID-19 is a net tailwind" for now.

Scientists just demonstrated a promising prototype — with a catch.

In the early '90s, Industrial Light & Magic's visual effects crew set out to do something that had never been done, and eventually changed the course of CGI's evolution.

This kind of reverse-engineering from raw binary to easy-to-read code isn't a simple process, but it's an effort that a growing community of hobbyist decompilers is undertaking to unlock the secrets behind some of their favorite games.