Comic-Con International is a magnet not only for wannabe-superheroes, but also photographers. They roam the halls like everyone else vying for slick shots of Harley Quinns, Batmans and Wonder Womans all dressed up. Maggie Shannon was among them this year. Onl…

Placed against our sci-fi expectations, robotics have large fallen short with one notable exception. In 2019, automation is a mainstay in  factories and warehouses. There the technology has been proven out in the field, and VCs are happy to invest millions. …

Mixhalo the startup co-founded by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and his wife, violinist Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding. The company’s initial goal was to bring better sound quality to concerts. Instead of hearing mu…

U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications. In a speech Tuesday in New York, the U.S. attorney gen…

LeBron James has a cramp. Its the final minutes of a 2014 playoff game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat. With his team down by four, James takes a quick step, beats his defender, and jumps, sending the ball in a high arc toward the basket. Its…

On the increasingly polarized internet, Pinterest often feels like the good place. The platform is a collation of personalized happinessa place filled with wedding cake and street fashion, expertly styled living rooms, and tips for taking care of your plantsa…

The 1995 movie Congo may be most noteworthy for Tim Currys over-the-top line readings (A diamond mine of incredible bounty!). However, Ill personally remember it for an otherwise throwaway moment in which our jungle-bound diamond hunters are asked by Laura Li…

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's hearings before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees Wednesday should be among the most important moments of the Trump presidencythe rare, and perhaps only, chance to question the man who has spent two years …

French company Idemias algorithms scan faces by the million. The companys facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and France. Idemia software checks the faces of some cruise ship passengers landing in the US against Customs and Border …

In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescopea dish in Australia that had been tracking pulsars, the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of once massive stars…