Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger. Why do we need so many apps to do one thing?

Although the claim by a UK researcher that he identified Jack the Ripper from a semen stain on an 130-year-old shawl is drawing derision, new forms of DNA analysis mean old letters, pipes, and locks…

If physicists have been going about the search the wrong way, these clever sensors might help.

Is this the death of the traditional console?

A lidar-equipped drone has mapped a lava tube in Iceland in a matter of minutes, using a technique that can be applied to space exploration.

In December of last year, at one of the world’s largest AI research conferences, American chipmaker Nvidia showed off an incredible new concept: using generative adversarial networks, or GANs…

For all of the recent progress in machine intelligence, robots still struggle to adapt relatively simple tasks to new situations.

The company’s data protection officer blamed it on a server migration, and said it had lost over 50 million songs from 14 million artists.

Early results from the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission are not just giving us insights into space rocks—they can tell us about our own planet’s history, too.

Officials claim the machine will be seven times faster than the current most powerful system.

Norwegian aluminum firm Hydro said virtually all its IT systems are currently down thanks to an “extensive” attack that started on Monday evening and is still ongoing.

The whale’s grisly death renewed focus on the problem of plastics ending up in oceans. The Philippines is the third-biggest contributor of such waste.

Investigators raised concerns about possible role of anti-stall device in October crash in Indonesia, and experts say it will get new attention after another crash in Ethiopia.

The iPhone was fantastic when it was released in 2007. A lot has changed since then.

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Borrowing energy from black holes would offer a highly efficient way to navigate our galaxy, an astronomer says.

The sheer scale of efforts by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to take down clips of the video shows how hard it is to stop people from spreading horrific content.

Nobody saw or was even aware of the fireball that exploded above the Bering Sea on December 18, 2018—until now.

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

A gunman live-streamed the murder of dozens of innocents in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday—and the world got a terrible reminder of how flawed existing social-media policies and…

On Tuesday, NBC published a story with a gripping headline: “Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent.

As Beto O'Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.

That Facebook thinks it can tackle the problem in this way shows how just powerful its ability to identify people with AI has become.