Technology

The surge in attacks has been years in the making. Last year, there were 65,000 ransomware attacks, according to the cybersecurity company Recorded Future.

The lynchpin to retrieving $2.3 million, half the company's payment, was gaining access to the private key linked to the attacker's Bitcoin account.

Are we alone? Have alien spacecraft been buzzing across Earth's skies?

Amazon is building a Wi-Fi network – using your Wi-Fi.

What do the recent ransomware attacks on the world's largest meat production company and a U.S. oil pipeline reveal about our cybersecurity and the growing threat?

Intelligent machines will play a much larger role in the future than they do now, and we’re trying to imagine that future as we’re ra ...

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Dept. partners with Nerd Street Gaming to include esports in programming, with the goal of increasing access to high-end tech.

In a lot of ways, artificial intelligence acts as our personal butlers — it filters our email, manages the temperature in our homes, fi ...

It appears the hack is connected to a series of attacks targeting health care and social service organizations and agencies during the pandemic.

Calls for racial justice and an end to police brutality still fill social media a year after George Floyd's murder. But BLM says posts targeting it are full of disinformation.

There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medication ...

For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests might reveal new answers.

Many of us were taught to share as kids. Now streaming services ranging from Netflix to Amazon to Disney+ want us to stop.

LGBTQ social media users encounter hate speech and harassment at higher rates than all other identity groups at 64%, according to GLAAD's inaugural social media index report.

The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey.