Technology

Making Things Worse Because They’re Already Bad Dan Crawford, a public relations professional in Washington, D.C., described a trajectory similar to mine. He had installed time limits on his phone and given his wife the password; she acted as a sort of phone-time trustee, doling out 20-minute chunks at his request and her discretion. On […]

Goliath the Greek? Human remains from an ancient cemetery in southern Israel have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites. The Philistines mostly resided in five cities along the southern coast of what is today Israel

Once described as “the most important and original scientific thinker in the world”, James Lovelock is still a hugely influential environmental thinker – and he’s about to celebrate his 100th birthday. In the 1960s he was a campaigning eco-pioneer and now he’s a firm advocate of nuclear power. The BBC’s Mishal Husain went to meet

Cranes hoist cargo onto the deck, power tools scream out and workers bustle through the maze of passageways inside the German icebreaker RV Polarstern, preparations for a yearlong voyage that organizers say is unprecedented in scale and ambition. In a couple of months, the hulking ship will set out for the Arctic packed with supplies

Broadcom has set its sights on acquiring a well-known name in cybersecurity software, in a further strategy shift after the Trump administration blocked it last year from purchasing another chip maker on national security grounds. The semiconductor giant is in advanced discussions to buy Symantec, which makes antivirus software and other products, two people briefed

The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn. Nearly two years ago, state lawyers in a closely watched election integrity lawsuit told the judge they intended to subpoena the FBI for the forensic image, or digital snapshot, the agency made of a crucial server before state

If there’s one lesson to learn about digital privacy, it’s that we can never grow complacent. Even if we secure our data so we are not tracked online, the ad tech industry will find ways to monitor our digital activities. And so it is with the rise of so-called fingerprinting, which security researchers are calling

A half-dozen North Atlantic right whales have died in the past month, leading scientists, government officials and conservationists to call for a swift response to protect the endangered species. Interested in Animals? Add Animals as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Animals news, video, and analysis from ABC News. There are

That first summer, however, staffers found themselves increasingly hot, limp and damp, their experience captured by daily surveys that included this plaintive report from one suffering soul: “I am physically melting.” More fans were brought in, employees were encouraged to work early in the morning — before the day got too hot — and the

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Nicholas Fandos, a reporter in Washington who covers Congress, discussed the tech he’s using. What are the most important tech tools for doing your job? At its simplest, reporting on Congress is about creating a record of what the