Technology

During the coronavirus pandemic, Skype could've been the top app for video conferencing. But instead, we're all on Zoom. What went wrong?

Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.

The planned test is part of a project to develop an artificial intelligence-driven drone that could change the face of air combat.

The Smart Cup is a 3D-polycapsule printed energy drink. Is it something you'd want to try out?

This waist-mounted supernumerary robotic arm is here to lend a hand.

The government's ability to access phone data, like during a protest, depends on a patchwork of court decisions and laws that predate the technology.

What could've been a Tesla troubler will now have to settle for being the most expensive car never made.

This privateer is developing a way to power the world with water and borax.

Simple steps to take before hitting the streets.

An engineer made a high-tech golf club that automatically corrects your swing and customizes itself to become any iron.

The tech workers in Silicon Valley know you want them gone. They knew it when you protested their buses. They knew it when you trashed their scooters. They definitely knew it when you scrawled "die techie scum" on the sidewalk. But guess what? They don't even want to be here! In fact, they're already packing their bags.

Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently.

How I found home networking nirvana with a powerline connection, a form of home networking that might be called poor man's ethernet. No drilling involved.

Some computer keyboards never should've been sold in the first place. Here is an exhaustive tour of the worst ones ever made.

As protests against police brutality ramped up across the nation, aircraft operated by law enforcement and the National Guard were flying overhead.

Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they're harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers.

They're almost invisible but contain a hidden code — and now their presence on a leaked document has sparked speculation about their usefulness to FBI investigators.

Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views.

Federal authorities have more than proven that they aren't above siphoning off nearly every digital footprint we make in the name of profiling and policing every person in the crowd.

Apogee, GodGames, id and Epic laid the foundation for modern publishing.

If you plan on attending a protest — even a peaceful one — there are some important precautions you should take with your phone before you go.

The rise of new technologies often brings up fears.

Tom Scott recalls the onosecond he realized he made the worst typo in his life.

From mafia propaganda to moral outcry, what's stopping us from embracing water cremation technology?

You can spend a lot of money buying a sim rig, or you can try to do what this man has done here.

There's a fascinating history behind the pipe symbol bars on our keyboards.

Users like Wali Da Great are growing infamous for tricking streaming listeners with falsified metadata.

Researchers have developed a radio-frequency switch to make 5G access more energy efficient, accessing higher 5G frequencies and draining less battery power.

Today at 10:16 a.m. ET, the Dragon successfully docked into the International Space Station.

"If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly."

Peeling carrots with your own hands is for schmucks.

Cyber criminals will sometimes send you an email that appears to be from a legitimate sender, asking you to provide sensitive information. This is what happens if you fall for the bait.

As protestors demonstrate in Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd, law enforcement agencies have access to a host of surveillance tools that could make it easier to target and find them.

Jalopnik crunched some numbers about the specs of cars and computers over 35 years of development and saw what happened.

A nine-passenger, all-electric Cessna 208 flew for 28 minutes in the first public demonstration of the world's largest all-electric aircraft. History, made.

The retailer denies there is any widespread issue with the software, but a group expressed frustration — and public health concerns.

Tucked in a Russian forest not terribly far from Moscow, you'll find it: a veritable mini-city, populated entirely by space explorers and their kin for over half-a-century. This is "Star City,"

The Action Lab shows off a Turing Tumble, a series of switches that can count, add, subtract and even multiply.

The Brick Wall built a miniature mechanical Tapas Factory constructed out of Legos.

A South Korean documentary raises questions about technology's role in mourning.

When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth, it struck at an angle that maximized its destructive potential, according to new computer simulations of the catastrophic event.

Subtle patterns can be seen in people's reaction times as their memories are recalled, and boosting these brainwaves could help treat Alzheimer's disease.

Watch as this pair of robot arms carves a rabbit.

"In effect what we have created is the first comprehensive roadmap of the heart's nervous system that can be referenced by other researchers for a range of questions about the function, physiology, and connectivity of different neurons in the ICN."

Ford's software cranks the heat in police cruisers to disinfect them and slow the spread of COVID-19.

Apple was the first company to make smartwatches a product consumers actually wanted, but there was a time, not too long ago, when Microsoft could have defined the future of wearables.

Good hardware can sometimes save a bad product, but for crucial UI elements, bad or unreliable hardware can almost never be fixed by software, no matter how good.

Here's a handy webcam modification that enables eye-contact conversation.

Sick of being ripped off by online price gougers charging $450 to $600 for a used Switch, this Nintendo fan took matters into his own hands.

I sit here typing on Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro, which is somehow both an incremental and radical upgrade over the 13-inch MacBook Pros of recent years. The Pro I bought in 2017 sits to my left, and while the two look similar, the experience of using them is completely different.

Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments.

I thought the Universal Serial Bus was supposed to be Universal. Here's an intriguing history of why USB keeps changing.

It's not impossible, but it might as well be.

MSCHF's latest project, "Icon Rewind," lets you revert your iPhone's app icons to their previous versions for a trip down memory lane.

The jailbreak works on devices up to iOS 13.5, which Apple released this week.

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.