Last week, Equifax agreed to a $575 million—up to $700 million—settlement over its major 2017 data breach. It entitles affected consumers to free credit-monitoring offerings or an $125 payout, plus the potential for more cash back if you can document losses as a result of the incident. That's not a ton of money compared to…

The data economy has too often betrayed its customers, whether it's Facebook sharing data you didn't even realize it had, or invisible trackers that follow you around the web without your knowledge. But a new app launching in the iOS App Store today wants to help you take back some control—without making your life harder.The…

I never really understood catcalling until Whitney Cummings explained it in front of a live audience. Rather than waxing snarky about backward oafs who don't get why harassment is bad, she says she understands the impulse, and launches into a story about seeing a service dog in an airport terminal. One that was wearing a…

"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) says.Andrew Harnik/APOne week after Robert Mueller’s testimony shined a spotlight, once again, on election interference, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is feeling the heat. The leader turned heads on the Senate floor Monday as he rose to decry critics who have dubbed…

Fitbit continued solid device growth for Q2, up 31%, year over year, representing a 5% bump in revenue. From that angle, the company’s long-term turnaround appears to be on track…

Google has a solution for the creaking inefficiencies of modern healthcare: push notifications. No, not those annoying reminders to practice your Arabic lesson on Duolingo or subscribe to a new Lyft deal. Google is betting its alerts can save your life. The company is building an artificial-intelligence-driven system that promises to give doctors an early…

Encryption in space can be tricky. Even if you do everything right, a cosmic ray might come along and flip a bit, sabotaging the whole secure protocol. So if you…

The frenetic sports matches in Pelle Cass' digitally manipulated photographs are a referee's worst nightmare. Unhinged athletes crowd the field and race around like maniacs, ignoring the rules and generally doing whatever they damn please."A friend told me I'm depicting Dionysian chaos," Cass says. "I like to repeat that, because it captures what I'm going…

Amazon has acquired Israeli storage tech startup E8 Storage, as first reported by Reuters, CNBC and Globes and confirmed by TechCrunch. The acquisition will bring the team and technology from…

The twitter world is going crazy over this epic pitch by Oliver Drake of the Tampa Bay Rays. Of course it's real, but why does this happen? In physics, you don't really under­stand something until you can model it—so let's do just that. I'm going to walk through the steps of modeling an awesome pitch…