Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — ...

Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and ...

In Searches, Vauhini Vara probes the ways that we rely on the Internet and how we periodically attempt to free ourselves from its grip.

Given decades of alarms about technology’s threats to our brains and well-being, one might expect to start seeing negative ...

Some smart devices create more hassle than help, from subscription-locked gadgets to weak security features and impractical ...

Once hired, the operative will ask for their work laptop to be sent to the address of a U.S.-based middleman, who installs ...

A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then ...

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

The company’s first AI-powered tool functions like a personal research assistant: It scours the web and users’ internal data ...

This demonstrated that machines do not need to be conscious to change us. They only need to seem so. If a basic script could persuade people to disclose their innermost worries and secrets, it should ...

The first cohort of seniors to have contended with a digital society has reached the age when cognitive impairment becomes more common.

Imagine synthetic bacterial supplements that could regulate the gut microbiome, controlled via Bluetooth to treat conditions ...