Category: Tech news

Gore-Tex, the waterproof material in your favorite jacket—and boots and ski pants—was born by accident.

There was no way social media was going to let the president’s comments go uncommented upon.

It’s a new name for an old argument: that public agencies fighting crime and terrorism must have access to our private communications—for our own good.

Eventually, it should be able to fly as far as 20 miles, carrying 500 pounds )or 400 large Domino’s pizzas.

For decades, physicists have struggled to create a quantum theory of gravity. Now an approach that dates to the 1970s is attracting newfound attention.

And where was the federal government?

These all-foam snowshoes from Crescent Moon might look low-tech, but the combination of cleats and tire-like treads provide ample traction.

Meltdown, Spectre, malicious Android apps, and more of the week’s top security news.

The Richard Branson-backed venture wants to launch a commercial hyperloop in 2021, and it’s got work to do.

The show’s most recent season hinted that its episodes are connected—but it should stay an anthology series.

Facebook’s vice president for newsfeed explains the thinking behind recent changes in the algorithm that determines what 2 billion people see on the social network.

At the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy is a big, black hole—and NASA just snapped a photo of it.

 Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs with locations not set to China that their iCloud data was being moved to a Chinese company’s servers was done so accidentally. The Cupertino tech giant had announced Wednesday that next month it will begin the process of moving Chinese users’ iCloud data to servers hosted in China by state-owned Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) as… Read More

 Google is temporarily halting advertisements worldwide for addiction and rehabilitation centers, following a report last week showing it was acting as a platform for shady referral services earning huge undisclosed commissions. Read More

 David Letterman seems to be taking the title of his new Netflix show very seriously: On the very first episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, he’s joined by former U.S. President Barack Obama. Read More