On Tuesday, e-cigarette maker Juul announced an aggressive-sounding plan to prevent kids from using its nicotine products, including stopping the sale of most flavored pods in more than 90,0... Read more

The tech industry already spends tens of millions of dollars every year lobbying in Washington for federal regulations that will benefit their businesses—or, better yet, for no regulations... Read more

Is there a screen trope simultaneously more loved and reviled than real-time hacking? Not a chance. From the early 1980s, movies and TV shows have developed a seemingly endless appetite for... Read more

The world is busted. For decades, scientists have carefully accumulated data that confirms what we hoped wasn’t true: The greenhouse gas emissions that have steadily spewed from cars and p... Read more

After a 14-month search, Amazon announced Tuesday that it will open a pair of regional offices in two major metropolitan areas where it already has a presence: the Long Island City neighborh... Read more

For two hours Monday, internet traffic that was supposed to route through Google's Cloud Platform instead found itself in quite unexpected places, including Russia and China. But while the h... Read more

What's so great about getting in a swimming pool? The answer is that it can make you feel like a superhero. Even in the shallow end, you can easily lift another person—even someone larger... Read more

If you're looking for more of a get-work-done-now tablet, the Surface Pro 6 is worth a look. It's one of Microsoft's premium devices and is basically a big 12-inch tablet that runs a full ve... Read more

There are well over 500,000 podcasts in the world, covering everything from ABBA to zoology. They’ve reached such a saturation point, in fact, that there’s almost certainly a podcast out... Read more

In recent months there’s been an increase in stories in which a follower of radical conspiracies shifts their actions from the web and into the world.In June, a QAnon conspiracy follower k... Read more