In perhaps the most wince-inducing example of why your household items probably don’t need to run on an app, we bring you the news that a hacker took control of an internet-connected chastity cage...

Bad Idea It’s been days since Elon Musk was declared the richest person in the world by Bloomberg, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with an estimated net worth north of $200 billion. And the...

This has been a pretty rough year. Between the pandemic, the election, and the economic crisis, it’s hardly a surprise that more people than ever are suffering from things like anxiety, depression,...

Oh boy, arguably one of the most long-awaited video game releases is finally here — and to say Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been a mess would be an understatement. Even The New York Times is now...

Diemut Strebe, artist-in-residence at MIT, has a lot to say about the U.S.’s failure to contain or even meaningfully slow down the coronavirus pandemic. But she decided to let a single-celled...

These days it seems like almost everything we do is online. Not only are we shopping and banking via the web. We’re also having virtual get-togethers with loved ones, watching movies and TV shows...

When he was a computer scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Sailesh Ramakrishnan developed algorithms that helped Mars rovers operate with a greater degree of autonomy. Several jobs later...

As the holidays near closer and closer, you are likely finding yourself in one of two situations: either you’re on the hunt for the perfect gift or you’re in need of a little bit of entertainment...

In 1965, Gordon Moore, who co-founded Intel, observed that in his experience, the number of transistors you can fit into a given space would double about every two years. This quickly was dubbed...

These days we do almost everything online, from shopping and banking to working and filing taxes. So what are you doing to protect you online privacy and security? If the answer to that question is...