TL;DR: Although often labeled a "dark web" associated with criminal activity and illicit marketplaces, Tor is an invaluable tool for protecting online privacy. Developers are now working to make the ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Four WNBA players have now committed to play in Project B, a women's basketball startup league expected to tip off in Europe, Asia and Latin America in November 2026. All-Stars Jewel Loyd, who played ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Three 17-year-old Moravian Academy students founded a company that uses AI-powered cameras to alert construction companies to ...

The pitch from Andrew J. Collins worked over and over again. He portrayed himself as a sophisticated South Boston developer with strong local ties, poised to launch a sprawling real estate project ...

The Justice Department has settled its case against real estate tech firm RealPage, which faced bombshell allegations of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to jack up ...

Professional women's basketball is at a turning point. The WNBA has been exploding in popularity, but a potentially contentious renegotiation of the league's CBA could have us heading for a holdout.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial intelligence research, development and scientific applications.

President Donald J. Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” unveiled yesterday, November 24, 2025, is billed as a generational leap in how the United States does science akin to the Manhattan Project that ...