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Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data

The Best Nintendo Switch Games for Every Kind of Player

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

How to Set Up a 4G LTE Wi-Fi Network as an Alternative to Broadband

Warnings From the Queer History of Modern Internet Regulation

Period Underwear Changed My Life—and I'm Never Going Back

The SolarWinds Body Count Now Includes NASA and the FAA

NFTs Boom as Collectors Shell Out to ‘Own’ Digital Art

Clubhouse Cured My Imposter Syndrome

Ultimate Ears' Fits Are the Comfiest Earbuds I've Ever Tried

Border Disputes Threaten Climate Science in the Himalayas

Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

The 20 Best Weekend Deals If You Work From Home

Alexa Skills That Are Actually Fun and Useful

How Blizzard Transforms Its Fans Into Employees

Hard-coded key vulnerability in Logix PLCs has severity score of 10 out of 10

How Google's Grand Plan to Make Stadia Games Fell Apart

A Shot Nears Approval, Experts Study Transmission, and More

Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth

Blood of Zeus Combines Myth With Saturday Morning Cartoons

Now Is a Great Time to Try These 5 Menstrual Products

The Rumored Apple Car Is Bad News for Elon

To Quash Disinfo, Researchers Must Work With Journalists

OK, The 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Reveal Was a Good Troll

A Very Technical—and Emotional—Journey to Mars

Coding Blackness: A History of Black Video Game Characters

This Is What It's Like to Live Without Smell

Billie Eilish and the Future of the Pop Star Documentary

I Found My Niche on TikTok—You Can Too

Could Fruit Flies Help Match Patients With Cancer Treatments?

The 19 Best Deals From Winter Clearance Sales This Week

AT&T announces deal to spin off DirecTV into new company owned by… AT&T

Code-execution flaw in VMware has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10

We Still Don’t Know How Well Covid Vaccines Stop Transmission

Verizon and AT&T dominate spectrum auction, spending combined $69 billion

Texas' Icy Disaster Makes the Case for Uniting the US Grid

Clubhouse Is Booming. So Is the Ecosystem Around It

Lora DiCarlo's Baci Has Plenty of Suction Power to Satisfy

California Can Now Enforce Its Net Neutrality Law

The Terrible T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Must Be Undone

How This Old-School Road Runner Learned to Love Virtual Races

The 5 Best Apps to Get Live TV Without Cable

This Smart Panel Knows Your Electrical System's Cheat Code

'Lapsis' and the Rise of Gig-Economy Sci-Fi

Sex Tapes, Hush Money, and Hollywood’s Economy of Secrets

Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories

So Long, Fry's. I Learned Everything About Gadgets From You

Cox’s bad customer service stymies users who don’t want upload speeds cut

Ukraine says Russia hacked its document portal and planted malicious files

Jim Ryan: There Will Be ‘a Completely New VR Format for PS5’

Biden Faces a Steep Challenge to Unite Democracies on Tech

Need Trail Running Shoes? These Are Our 8 Favorite Pairs

Help! Everyone Is Judging My Messy Bedroom

Can Video Games Be a Healthy Outlet for Stress Relief?

Twinkling Black Holes Reveal an Invisible Cloud in Our Galaxy

Android users now have an easy way to check the security of their passwords

I Woke Up to Australia's Newsless News Feed

8 Great Chess Apps for Beginners and Grand Masters

Hackers Tied to Russia's GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years

When the Grid Goes Down, Can a Fleet of Batteries Replace It?

Twitch’s DMCA Takedowns Threaten to Drive Musicians Away

Lectric’s Ebike Is Heavy but Foldable and Affordable

Gig Workers Gather Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math

Report: Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores

Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year

The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down

A Guide to HDMI Cables for Next-Gen Gaming

The Most Romantic Date Spots in Super Mario 3D World

Facebook’s Petty Unfriending of Australia

Think a Temporary Cardboard Desk Is a Good Idea? Think Again

What a 1900s Wildlife Survey Reveals About Climate Change

How to Remember a Disaster Without Being Shattered by It

2034, Part V: Sailing Into Darkness

Perseverance’s Eyes See a Different Mars

The Woman Bulldozing Video Games’ Toughest DRM

AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif. regulator finds

How Planes Keep Flying After an Engine Catches Fire

The Energy Sector Must Prepare for More Extreme Weather

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Is Now Armed—in the Name of Art

The Mantis Shrimp Inspires a New Material—Made by Bacteria

Lenovo's X1 Carbon Shows Why Linux Is Great on ThinkPads

Cheese Actually Isn’t Bad for You

Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it

The Pandemic Will End—but Covid-19 May Be Here to Stay

China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool—and Used It for Years

Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites Mammoths' Evolutionary Tree

Sprinkle Some Fun Into Your Pandemic Home Cooking

The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All

7 Apps to Make the Most of Your Streaming Music Subscription

The Best Loungewear for Working From Home in Comfort

A Trippy Visualization Charts the Internet's Growth

Sites Have a Sneaky New Way to Track You Across the Web

New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped

The Best Posture Correctors to Put a Stop to Your Slouch

Can Hamburger Buns Save Your Pipes from Freezing?

Gamify Your Workouts With Ergatta's Rowing Machine

Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal

6 Clever Ways to Use the Windows Command Prompt

The 18 Best Weekend Deals on Masks, Headphones, and MacBooks

A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google

The UK Is the Latest Country to Tighten the Screws on Uber

L.L.Bean's Extra Warm Bean Boots Are $140 Off Right Now

Storm Delays for Vaccines, Expanded Sequencing, and More News

Comcast responds to pressure, cancels data cap in Northeast US until 2022

What Would It Take to Actually Settle an Alien World?

Australia Is Fighting a Platform War on the Wrong Battlefield

The Love Triangle Is a Sex Toy With a Pleasurable Price

The Mars Landing Was the Best Thing on TV This Week

New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito

It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Get a PlayStation 5

When World of Warcraft Is an Escape—and a Memorial

As Coronavirus Variants Spread, the US Struggles to Keep Up

Our 14 Favorite Headphones and Earbuds for $100 or Less

The AI Research Paper Was Real. The ‘Coauthor’ Wasn't

Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers stole source code for 3 products

Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security

NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars

The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation

'Valheim' Is the Endless Survival Game You've Been Craving

4 Work-From-Home Tech Tricks I Learned From Twitch Streamers

Birders’ Tweets Are Causing an Online Flap

Lenovo's Desktop PC Has Plenty of Beauty, Not Enough Brawn

Online Meetups Are Sad, but What If You Were a Cute Animal?

The Best Smart Bulbs to Light Up Your Home

Feds Indict North Korean Hackers for Years of Heists

Parler Says It's Back

Keep This Gear at Home In Case of Emergencies

Malware Is Now Targeting Apple’s New M1 Processor

Researchers Are Studying These Worm Blobs to Build Robots

The Pandemic Holds These Keys to a Better Education

How to Watch NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Landing

The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars

France ties Russia’s Sandworm to a multiyear hacking spree

What My Dialup Youth Taught Me About Sex and the Internet

North Korea may have hacked into Pfizer servers looking for COVID data

TV Characters Don’t Have Text History. This Is Not OK

How to Get Started Making Bread at Home

New type of supply-chain attack hit Apple, Microsoft and 33 other companies

Nature Makes Wood. Could a Lab Make It Better?

How to Avoid Phishing Emails and Scams

If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building?

2034, Part IV: The Spratly Islands Ambush

New From Lego: AR Llamas That Dance to Katy Perry

Parler says it’s back without “Big Tech” after being kicked off Amazon

France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree

How to Calculate the String Angle of a Kite vs. a Balloon

How to Use Your PS5 or Xbox Controller Everywhere Else

Billionaires See VR as a Way to Avoid Radical Social Change

Underwater Meditation and the Therapeutic Benefits of VR

A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy

How Covid Gums Up the Court System

Scientists Find Strange Critters Under a Half Mile of Ice

What Happens When You Swap a Human Gene With a Neanderthal’s?

Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of ‘Deepfake’

Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

How to Level Up Your At-Home Recording Studio

The Untold History of America’s Zero-Day Market

Prosecutor charges former phone company employee in SIM-swap scheme

A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits

Scientists Can Literally Become Allergic to Their Research

19 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear

A Windows Defender vulnerability lurked undetected for 12 years

The Best Presidents' Day Deals for the Home, Phones, and More

We Need a Global Outbreak Investigation Team—Now

A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose

How to Have a Meaningful Video Chat … With Your Dog

The Rot of Riot Games Culture Starts at the Top

Frontier raises sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7

Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light

Vaccine Progress, New Mask Guidelines, and More News

Mrs. Coulter Is One of the Best Villains on TV

AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad

The Crushing Disappointment of Fandom

New York City’s Surveillance Battle Offers National Lessons

Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories

Samsung's Galaxy Buds Pro Are the Best Premium Earbuds

Microsoft is seeing a big spike in Web shell use

Hackers, Mason Jars, and the Science of DIY Shrooms

Carjackings Are Up—and Gig Workers Are Getting Victimized

The Wanting Mare Is the Most Visual Fantasy in Recent Memory

This Cryptocurrency Is Really Burning a Hole in My Pocket

If You Can Learn Twitch-Speak, You Can Learn a Language

Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’

Our Picks From Outdoor Winter Clearance Sales Going on Now

Cox cuts some users’ uploads from 30Mbps to 10Mbps—here’s how to avoid it

The Hollywood Tech Tricks Getting Film Crews Back On Set

The CDC Now Recommends Double-Masking. Here's How to Do It

Aurora Partners With Toyota on Self-Driving Sienna Taxis

As More Women Enter Science, It’s Time to Redefine Mentorship

A Windows Defender Flaw Lurked Undetected for 12 Years

The Best Base Layers to Keep You Warm

NASA Wants to Set a New Radiation Limit for Astronauts

WandaVision Brought the Multiverse to Marvel

Games Don’t Judge You for Expressing Your True Self

Premature Babies and the Lonely Terror of a Pandemic NICU

Breached water plant employees used the same TeamViewer password and no firewall

A terabyte isn’t what it used to be—14% of Internet customers use more

16 Valentine's Day Deals for Your Sweetheart (or Yourself)

Authorities bust SIM-swap ring they say took millions from the rich and famous

Listen to an 18,000-Year-Old Instrument Sing Once More

The Case for Launching an Easy Mode for Difficult Games

The Best Mirrorless Cameras to Level Up Your Photos

A Barcode Scanner App With Millions of Downloads Goes Rogue

How Cubans make island Internet work for them

Game Subscriptions Are On the Rise. Indies Could Suffer

The Digital Divide Is Giving American Churches Hell

Beijing’s Ban on Clubhouse Won't Deter Some Listeners

How to Make Your Music Streaming a Little More Social

SpaceX Starlink opens preorders but slots are limited in each region

Zero-days under active exploit are keeping Windows users busy

ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow

Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With Ransomware—and Won't Pay Up

Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Spread Under Facebook's Watch

Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack

The Best Running Gear for Your Long and Chilly Winter

How to Keep Kids Engaged in School—With Games

How This Teeny-Tiny Sea Critter Punches Like Mike Tyson

Artists Reimagine How Covid-19 Will Shape the Art World

Would You Trade a Bitcoin for a Tesla?

2034, Part III: One Left to Tell the Tale

The AirPods Max Are Insanely Great—and Insanely Expensive

A Hacker Tried to Poison a Florida City's Water Supply

Computer intruder tried to poison drinking water for a small Florida city