Technology

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.

A.I. is part of our everyday lives. We'll discuss our relationship with it and look at where the technology is headed.

How close are scientists to developing fusion energy? And what are the roadblocks standing in the way?

Years of research powered electric car batteries, yet questions remain to be answered.

Twitter released a new feature that detects potentially offensive replies on its service and asks users to review a message before sending.

The social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board has voted to uphold his ban from the platform after his account was suspended four months ago.

The decision to ban Trump from both Facebook and Instagram, which the company owns, came after the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The science museum on the Parkway has received a $1 million gift to develop new science exhibitions.

WHYY’s “Morning Edition” host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Malcolm Burnley and Ed Felten, hosts of WHYY’s new podcast, “A.I. Nation.”

Russian hackers exploited gaps in U.S. defenses and spent months in government and corporate networks in one of the most effective cyber espionage campaigns of all time.

Facebook said "malicious actors" scraped the data through a vulnerability that it fixed in 2019. But the publicly available data still leaves millions of users vulnerable.

About 40,000 babies are born with heart defects annually. The FDA approved a procedure less invasive than the surgery many get during their lives.