It’s officially the end of an era at Google. As the company faces a series of antitrust investigations and mounting employee unrest, its two cofounders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, announced on Tuesday they were stepping down from their leadership roles at the company. Page had been CEO of Google parent organization Alphabet, while Brin…

The prominent hacker and Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was arrested by the US government Friday after he spoke at an April conference on blockchain technologies in North Korea. The US government considers his presentation to be a transfer of technology—and therefore a violation of US sanctions.But Griffith's defenders, including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, describe the…

Cyber Monday is officially over, but many of our favorite deals are still going. If you took an extended holiday from screens, or ignored the past few days of sale madness, fear not. There are still quite a few great deals going.We combed through our many Cyber Monday guides and found everything that's still going.…

On Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida bound for the International Space Station. The brand-new rocket will be carrying a previously flown Dragon capsule loaded with supplies and experiments. It will mark SpaceX’s 19th trip to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply…

The online political advertising wars rage on.In late September, Facebook pleased almost no one when it announced that it would exempt posts by politicians, including ads, from its fact-checking system. Almost as if on cue, a few days later the Donald Trump reelection campaign dropped an ad full of conspiratorial claims about Joe Biden. When…

Apollo 12 pilot Alan Bean stands on the moon during the second lunar landing in November 1969. A Hasselblad camera is fixed to his chest, and mission commander Pete Conrad is crisply reflected on his helmet’s visor, as Bean holds up a gleaming cylinder filled with lunar dust.Space-philes can download a high-resolution version of this…

When you share a living space with other human beings, a few bumps in the road are inevitable. But sometimes those bumps can feel more like mountains. You know, like when your roommate is constantly "forgetting" to pay the bills, leaving clothes all over the floor, and stealing your food from the fridge.Instead of treating…

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is delivering results. Big time. Facebook on Monday announced a tool that allows anyone to copy their endless selfies and holiday pictures from the Zuckerberg empire to Google Photos.Wired UKThis story originally appeared on WIRED UK.A beta of the photo-transfer tool is rolling out today in Ireland with a…

Elon Musk may not want lidar scanners anywhere near his cars, but at least somebody in his employ believes that lasers can help Tesla cars see the world around them. Not by firing photons and measuring how long they take to return, but by blasting away grime that might block the view of the cameras…

Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, from Sequoia to Benchmark to Accel, are investing more and more dollars overseas, as more globally-minded unicorns crop up across Europe. As Forbes recently…