On Thursday, Seattle news station KIRO 7 published a disconcerting story. A Portland family discovered that a snippet of private conversation had been recorded by an Amazon Echo and sent to... Read more

The British Royal Air Force had a problem. It was 1943, and the Brits were using radar equipment to spot German submarines sneaking around off the western coast of France. The young men sitt... Read more

The federal investigators examining Uber’s fatal self-driving crash in March released a preliminary report this morning. It lays out the facts of the collision that killed a pedestrian in... Read more

The human gut is a 30-foot-long black box. Well, black tube. For decades doctors have been trying to decode the dark, slimy terrains of the GI tract—probing both ends with cameras and scop... Read more

Photographer Nikola Olic's architectural photography seems to flatten space into two-dimensional images, as in this juxtaposition of two buildings on Manhattan's west side.Olic shot this ima... Read more

Prepping for a big presentation is stressful, and your boss isn’t making it any better. He’s leering at your coworker Rachel in the middle of a meeting (!), asking if she’s bringing a... Read more

The only thing better than having a weekend jam-packed with all sorts of exciting plans is having a weekend with no plans at all—especially if it means you can dedicate a blissful 72-plus... Read more

Just over an hour into Tuesday’s California Public Utilities Commission public meeting on the future of self-driving taxis, the machines took over.“Please pardon the interruption,� a k... Read more

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black... Read more

If you’re looking for attention, drive an American muscle car, like a Chevrolet Camaro. The unmistakable exhaust growl of a V8 turns heads pretty quickly. If you’re desperate for attenti... Read more