According to a Girls Who Code survey, many young women, whom the tech industry is counting on to diversify its heavily male workforce, are put off by their first encounters with tech companies.Jens Büttner/picture alliance/Getty ImagesIn 2018, Mei'lani Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle of…

Vigoride's prototype flew to space a month ago, and it has two more test flights planned. Momentus hopes those demonstrations will help them line up two or three takers for their first real flight.In its initial incarnation, Vigoride is a one-and-done machine: It will vigorously drive its customers wherever they want to go, and then,…

Swatting is one of the worst “pranks” imaginable. Sometimes, the consequences are deadly.Mario Tama/Getty ImagesSWAT teams, in full military protective gear and armed with assault rifles, are being deployed against innocent, unsuspecting citizens all over the United States. Ten days ago, it was Kyle Giersdorf, alias Bugha, a 16-year-old Twitch streamer and reigning Fortnite champion,…

Scientists have begun to expose a global horror show: microplastic pollution. Tiny bits of plastic have been showing up in unlikely places, including Arctic ice floes. The particles are blowing in the air, so we’re breathing microplastic and eating it and drinking plastic-infused water.The implications for human health are potentially huge. Potentially. The problem is…

NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to build a new supercomputer, which will serve NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and develop models and simulations of the…

reMarkableA thin design and spacious 10-inch E Ink screen make reMarkable's tablet look like a giant Kindle (you can use it to read ebooks), but it's actually a powerful note-taking tool. The screen is sensitive to the tilt and pressure of the plastic stylus, which is comfortable to write with and has no electronics that…

If you’re like me, chances are good you just distractedly clicked on this article while scrolling through your feed in, or while waiting for, a Lyft. Maybe, like me, you…

Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web. This new proposal follows…

Earlier this year, the world turned very sour on a group of rich and famous parents who were exposed for having paid big money to get their not-so-academic offspring into…

Apple is getting ready for its usual fall iPhone launch event, which is rumored to be happening September 10, though the event hasn’t been officially confirmed this year. A new…