Executives from Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Google, AT&T, and Charter Communications are heading to Washington Wednesday to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on the topic of priva... Read more

On Monday night, when the cofounders of Instagram announced that they had quit Facebook, reportedly over Mark Zuckerberg’s meddling, it marked the end of an era in more ways than one. It s... Read more

For over half a decade, Cody Wilson has been a unique thorn in the side of anyone who advocates even the most minimal form of gun control. More than any person else on the planet, the creato... Read more

Twitter unveiled a new policy Tuesday concerning “dehumanizing speech,� which will go into effect later this year. It’s designed to prohibit users from dehumanizing people based on the... Read more

Amazon announced so many new hardware products last week that it’s hard to know which one will respond the next time you shout “Alexa!� in your house. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Ale... Read more

What was already setting up to be one of the biggest, most consequential weeks of Trump’s presidency—as the commander-in-chief, in New York, chaired a meeting of the United Nations and,... Read more

You're sitting in physics class, working on a traditional problem involving forces and acceleration, when you start to wonder where these terms even came from. Were they just dreamed up to b... Read more

Twitter on Tuesday announced a new policy addressing “dehumanizing speech,� which will take effect later this year, and for the first time the public will be able to formally provide the... Read more

You’ve heard that social media is screwing with your brain. Maybe you even read about it on social media. (So meta; so messed up.) The neurochemical culprit, dopamine, spikes when you like... Read more

The Fedex package arrived at Mark Barlet’s home in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on Christmas Eve 2016. He opened the box and gingerly pulled out a sleek black-and-white device with two la... Read more