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UCSF researchers have created a veritable mind-reading implant capable of translating your brain activity into synthetic speech, and it's surprisingly accurate.

Your home cleaning products have a major carbon footprint. Several startups want to popularize a clever solution: remove the water.

Facebook won't let users opt out of a feature that allows them to be searched by phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication.

At just 80 square feet, The Kugelschiff is a renovated Airstream Bambi II that now serves as a tech entrepreneur’s tiny home and office.

Alexa users can disable use of their voice recordings for "the development of new features," but Amazon says their employees may still listen and analyze recordings of people who opt out.

Security researchers have discovered a powerful surveillance app first designed for Android devices can now target victims with iPhones. The spy app, found by researchers at mobile security firm Lookout, said its developer abused their Apple-issued enterprise certificates to bypass the tech giant&#…

Scientists in China and Japan are working to create a space elevator, and an experiment aboard the International Space Station could help point the way.

Twitter has previewed an all-new prototype app to a group of hand-picked beta testers ahead of a potential global rollout. The app is purportedly a streamlined testbed of new features.

Facebook app developers left hundreds of millions of user records exposed on a publicly visible cloud server, researchers from security firm UpGuard said. The researchers said the larger of the two data sets came from a Mexican media company called Cultura Colectiva. A 146GB data set with information like user activity, account names, and Facebook IDs was found that included more than 540 million records, the researchers said.

Companies have been hiding read receipts in your emails for decades. Now everyone’s doing it. Here’s how to shut that down.

It’s Gmail’s 15th birthday, and Google is celebrating with a couple of minor updates. Gmail can now be used to schedule emails, and Google is improving the quality of its Smart Compose feature.

It’s time to reclaim your privacy–and your time–from your friends and coworkers.

Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium, and The Verge has secured an exclusive first look. Microsoft’s new browser supports Chrome extensions, some Edge features, and sync. It also runs very fast on Windows 10

A slew of experimental phones, like Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, are due to hit the market this year. But radical new design brings radical new engineering challenges.

Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google — but often don’t admit it in their privacy policies, new research says. The study is the latest to highlight the potential risks of entrusting sensitive health information to our phones.

No, it isn’t just for spies and whistle-blowers.

The factory, which currently makes battery packs and electric motors for the Model 3, will eventually be the biggest building in the world–with the world’s largest rooftop solar array.

A 'spaceplane' that flies 25 times faster than the speed of sound has successfully passed a crucial testing milestone.

After arriving at their Airbnb in Cork, Ireland, a family from New Zealand made an unsettling discovery: a hidden camera, livestreaming from the living room.

Investor proposals limiting Amazon’s face recognition sales can now proceed after the company argued they concerned “an insignificant public policy issue.”

Amazon is joining the race to provide affordable broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit.

Google said Duplex would launch on iOS devices and other Android phones, and it looks like that’s now starting to happen. The service has appeared on a Galaxy S10 Plus, showing the rollout is underway.

Intel is investing $13 million in Untether AI, a startup that's working on a novel type of chip for artificial intelligence that promises to perform neural-network calculations at warp speed.

The Saudi government hacked into Jeff Bezos’ phone and accessed private information, according to new details shared by the Amazon CEO’s security consultant.

The TSA has signed a $96.8 million contract with Smiths Detection, Inc. to go toward developing advanced technology at airport security checkpoints over a period of five years.