Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along.

Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was.

The communications occurred before the Trump administration took office, say current and former officials.

Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer escapes early to fend off a confused Dutch superteam and capture gold.

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

The so-called Silicon Valley candidate has a habit of ripping the tech industry, but his message is catching on, he’s flush with cash, and he’s positioned to survive deep into the primaries.

The fire turned the thousand-year-old roof to ash. But a digital replica of the cathedral could help make its restoration all the more complete.

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The attention paid to it has far surpassed the boundaries of the facts.

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday’s violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it.

Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future.

About 60 percent of Twitter activity related to the caravan late last week was driven by bots, according to a new tool aimed at news organizations.

The President's senior advisor and son-in-law was registered to vote in New York with the wrong gender.

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

Richardson, a gold-medal favorite in the women’s 100 meters, was suspended for a month, putting in doubt an appearance at the Tokyo Olympics.

The environmental record of the Trump administration motivated Jess Phoenix to run for Congress.

The real chances of a breakthrough infection.

If you thought the impeachment hearings were bad, wait until attorney general William Barr's internal investigation comes to light.

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A DDoS attack that crippled the internet wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working an online gaming hustle.

The so-called Silicon Valley candidate has a habit of ripping the tech industry, but his message is catching on, he’s flush with cash, and he’s positioned to survive deep into the primaries.

When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.

Scientists who have fought pandemics describe difficult measures needed to defend the United States against a fast-moving pathogen.

New C.D.C. data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were age 20 to 54. But the risk of dying was significantly higher in older people.

Investors in Tesla and other Musk ventures should know that the CEO does not always hew to the literal truth.

The vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has been found to be safe. Meanwhile, the EU has authorized AstraZeneca's vaccine. Latest COVID-19 news.

At TED 2019, neuroscientist Matthew Walker argued that sleep deprivation is having a catastrophic effect on our health and safety—here are all the ways.

A massive new federal report describes human-caused climate change resulting in ecological collapse and infrastructural ruin by 2100. They released it on the busiest shopping day of the year.

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance, backed in part by the Koch brothers, tried to kill a municipal fiber-optic project to deliver high-speed internet access in Louisville.

The tech giant will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable.

The so-called Silicon Valley candidate has a habit of ripping the tech industry, but his message is catching on, he’s flush with cash, and he’s positioned to survive deep into the primaries.

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong.

Can the president change the narrative and save democracy again?

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

The administration said the move will give US workers access to an additional 525,000 jobs. But sectors with lots of H-1B visas tend to have low unemployment.