Technology

The Philadelphia NAACP is calling for the city police department to fire officers who are found to have posted racist, violent, or offensive content on social media.

Philadelphia has prosecuted 14 cases of illegal dumping in the last five months, ten more than in 2016.

The report found median speeds for most of Pennsylvania didn’t meet the definition for broadband.

The U.S. Justice Department is readying an investigation of Google's business practices in search and other areas, and whether they violate antitrust law.

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan on Saturday denounced China's efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China Sea.

Unlike when a credit card expires, the transit authority will not automatically send users a replacement. So what do you do?

Children spend a lot of time on screens, which worries many parents. We discuss the effects of screens on kids' mental, physical, emotional, and social health

A new exhibit at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia tells the stories of scientists with disabilities — and shows how they overcame prejudice and marginalization.

A startup says many bikers don’t wear helmets because they don’t like the style or the inconvenience.

Facebook also said Thursday that it removed more than 7 million posts, photos and other material because it violated its rules against hate speech.

Twitter's algorithm apparently decided the account was guilty of violating the platform’s terms of service, which state that users must be at least 13.

Some argue that the filter, which Snapchat calls a "lens," could be a therapeutic tool that leads to self-discovery.

Notifications and texts offer immediate gratification some can’t resist when behind the wheel. To kick the habit, some behavior rewiring is needed.

New measures by U.S. regulators could help thwart some of the billions of robocalls received in the U.S.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and other tech companies joined a dozen countries in a pledge to step up efforts to keep internet platforms from being used to spread hate.