Technology

For the past year, the investigative journalist Julia Angwin has been busy building The Markup, a nonprofit news site dedicated to scrutinizing technology and its effects on society. The Markup raised more than $23 million in funding, a testament to the reputation that Ms. Angwin, the site’s editor in chief, and another of its founders, […]

Chinese tech giant Huawei has built a giant theme park-like campus for its research and development staff in China. The site houses 108 classically-designed buildings in the style of various European cities, and is a stark contrast to the nearby futuristic city of Shenzhen. The BBC’s Spencer Kelly visited the base for BBC Panorama at

Eyeing that can of soda in the supermarket cooler? Or maybe you’re craving a pint of ice cream? A camera could be watching you. But it’s not there to see if you’re stealing. These cameras want to get to know you and what you’re buying. It’s a new technology being trotted out to retailers, where

Bioré’s Witch Hazel Pore Strips “tighten and purify for gram worthy pores,” actor and model Shay Mitchell raved to her nearly 24 million Instagram followers in late February. The endorsement worked. “If @shaymitchell uses them, we all need to use them!” wrote one commenter. “If they’re good enough for Shay they’re good enough for us,”

SAN FRANCISCO — When you talk to tech industry insiders about where Bitcoin is heading, two vastly different comparisons are inevitable: the tulip bulb and the internet. Bitcoin’s critics say the digital tokens are like the tulip bulbs of 17th-century Holland. They generated a wild, speculative rush that quickly disappeared, leaving behind nothing but pretty

Wiebe Wakker has arrived in Sydney, after driving there in an electric car from Amsterdam over the course of almost three years. Mr Wakker says he travelled 60,000 miles (95,000 km) across 33 countries “without money”, relying on offers from volunteers for meals, accommodation and charging points. He says he aimed to demonstrate the capacity

Charlie, the oldest southern sea otter held by any zoo or aquarium, has died in California. The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach says Charlie died Monday at the age of 22. Male southern sea otters typically only live 10 to 14 years in the wild. Charlie celebrated his birthday last month by eating

On Sunday, March 30, U.S. Secret Service agents apprehended a 28-year-old Chinese woman by the name of Yujing Zhang attempting to sneak onto President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  On Zhang’s person at the time were four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and one thumb drive, the contents of which were virulent

Just last week, a parked Tesla caught fire at a service center near Pittsburgh. The car had previously caught fire in February, according to a local news report. In February, a man was killed in Florida when the Tesla he was driving crashed and was engulfed in flames. Tesla introduced Autopilot in October 2015. It

A prototype system that can automatically sort recyclable rubbish has been developed by MIT CSAIL. Using pressure sensors to detect an item’s size and composition, the RoCycle system can place items in the appropriate recycling bins. It is hoped the robot could eventually reduce the back-end cost of recycling. BBC Click finds out more. See