Category: Tech news

All it takes is one wrong click, and the popular video conferencing software will put you in a meeting with a stranger.

How to manipulate time and space to get the most out of your phone’s camera. Our slo-mo advice, and the best smartphones for recording in slow motion.

Quick experiments can help you answer the eternal question of whether to wear black or white on hot summer days. Turns out, it’s complicated.

Figuring out trees’ net emissions is becoming an urgent priority as countries and companies adopt tree-planting programs to offset their carbon footprints.

It’s super secure and slightly hard to understand, but the idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers.

Generating clean energy is easy. Getting the transmission lines to pipe it to the cities is the hard part.

Berkeley is considering a plan to finance big projects with “minibonds” that would be sold, and interest credited, via a blockchain system.

The Finnish tech company has a new home networking device that could help improve its business customers’ internet service.

The ecommerce giant was flooded with fake US women’s soccer merchandise the day after the team’s historic World Cup victory.

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Remember the Dress? That viral image revealed some of the oddness of color vision. Now scientists are finding more quirks in how people see faces.

Yes, billion.

The first worldwide effort to measure all forms of pollution is calculating staggering numbers on its human toll.

In an attempt to combat the echo-chamber effect of algorithm-driven news apps, the new iOS app Gem tries something new.

Extreme heat, hailstorms, and monstrous floods have made for an intense summer. But there’s still more seasonal strangeness to come.