How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location
At least 75 companies receive people’s precise location data from hundreds of apps whose users enable location services for benefits such as weather alerts,...
Bionic 3D-printed arm ‘gives confidence’ to young amputees
A Bristol-based robotics company, Open Bionics, has developed the world's first medically-certified 3D-printed artificial arm for amputees.The Hero Arm, with its artificial hand, can...
Climate talks pause as battle over key science report looms
A diplomatic standoff over a single word could set the stage for a bigger showdown during the second half of this year's U.N. climate...
Google Hearing to Preview Democrats’ Strategy on Big Tech
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Google executives worked arm in arm for years, particularly during the Obama administration. But when Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive,...
What does Martian wind sound like? Now we know
For the first time, humans can hear wind from Mars.
InSight, or NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander, provided the...
Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About
If you’ve dated in the age of social media — particularly now that you’ve pivoted from posting the occasional status update to running...
Protesters march as UN climate talks hit fossil fuel snag
Thousands of people from around the world marched Saturday through the southern Polish city that's hosting this year's U.N. climate talks, demanding that their...
Live-Streaming Your Broke Self for Rent Money
Jovan Hill, 25, dropped out of college and is unemployed. So how does he pay for his Brooklyn apartment and marijuana habit? His social...
Africa’s solid waste is growing, posing a climate threat
No one would envy a life of scavenging in Kenya's biggest landfill, but Daniel Kiarie says he would never leave it.
Birds circle overhead and...
Uber Is Said to File for an I.P.O. as It Races Lyft to a...
Passengers loved Uber’s convenience and embraced it in cities such as San Francisco, New York and London. Uber now operates in more than 600...
