Technology

A growing chorus environmental activists, business analysts and auto executives are predicting a sea change, as battery-powered electric vehicles grow in popularity.

In the U.S., the companies and platforms you interact with own the data they collect about you. This means they can legally sell this information to data brokers.

The Washington Post said Thursday that the fine would be the largest ever imposed on a tech company.

An app that allows Saudi men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters is available in the Apple and Google app stores in Saudi Arabia.

Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill spent six weeks trying to cut Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple out of her life completely. "Spoiler" she says. "It's not possible."

The Unicode Consortium, the organization that decides which symbols get to be emojis, released its 2019 additions this week. A "drop of blood" emoji has been added to the mix.

Blockchain technology isn’t as widely used as it could be, largely because blockchain users don’t trust each other, as research shows.

What can we do to protect our privacy from big tech companies data mining, tracking, and surveillance?

Reports have surfaced that Facebook and Google offered adults and teens gift cards for installing apps that would let the companies collect data on their smartphones.

West Chester University professor Michael Pearson owns 200 computers and he's not done collecting.

In Venezuela, where media is controlled by the government, figuring out what is truth, rumor or propaganda has always been difficult.

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest attempt to explain Facebook’s data-sharing practices is notable for its omissions as well as what it plays up and plays down.

Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women with darker skin, researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto say.

The surveying off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties is the first phase of the "Ocean Wind Project" situated 15 miles east of Atlantic City.

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.