If previous years are any indication, we're still at least four months away from a new crop of iPhones. But that hasn't stopped leakers and insiders from dropping clues about some of the new features Apple is allegedly working on, which so far, seem to consist of features that the iPhone's biggest competitors already...
Men and women across all sexual orientations are up for mixing drugs and sex, suggests the results of a new study out Tuesday. As part of a larger survey, it found that plenty of gay, bisexual, and heterosexual people admitted to having sex while on drugs, and some explicitly used drugs to enhance their sexual...
Lyft has finally gone public. After a hot debut, its stock price began sinking yesterday, and is still sinking as we speak. What's the deal? What about the sharing economy? What about the unicorns? What about the GOLDEN FUTURE? Below, a very short guide to what the real world has in store for these magical unicorn...
Shortly into the launch of the first scooter pilot program in the state of Massachusetts, one woman reportedly met the street in an accident that resulted in an ambulance ride and multiple stitches.
On Tuesday, more than 900 Google workers signed a letter urging the company to respect its contracted labor. As tech workers continue to call out unfair labor practices in the industry, they're forming a coalition with contractors to acknowledge the rights of about half of Google's workforce. The letter comes at a...
Wood-boring clams don't look like the ones you or I might find steamed with pasta. They're smaller than a pea, and live exclusively in the deep ocean, tunneling into sunken, waterlogged trees that were swept out to sea long ago to eat the wood. Now, scientists have determined that there are quite a few more groups of...
NASA's Curiosity rover shook the science community six years ago when it apparently detected traces of methane--an important chemical linked to life--on Mars. Researchers failed to confirm these results in the years that followed, but that's now changed thanks to a re-analysis of data collected from orbit.
In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook's potential to be a subversive political tool has been all too clear. And several years later, the social network still struggles to crack down on the very real dangers its platform creates for political systems. As the social network cracks down on its...
Great white sharks aren't the unstoppable killing machines of Hollywood's imagination, but studies have continuously shown that they're definitely badasses of evolution. A new paper out this week adds to that resume, finding that great whites can easily withstand levels of heavy metals that would kill most other...
One of the enduring criticisms of Facebook is that the News Feed is a black box. Starting this week, however, the box will suddenly take on a shade of dark gray.
The next best thing to banning cars is crafting policies that factor in the toll they take on society. And that's exactly what New York has now done. After toying with the idea for more than a decade, on Sunday the state legislature passed a budget that would implement congestion pricing, making New York the first...
A Georgia man pleaded guilty last week to using phishing tactics to hack the Apple accounts and credit card details of a number of "high-profile" celebrities and athletes, scamming victims out of hundreds or thousands of dollars, according to the Justice Department.
Archaeologists working in the Swiss town of Saint-Ursanne have discovered a remarkably well-preserved leather bootie dating back to the Middle Ages.
Neural adaptation is our brain's ability to gradually ignore sounds, smells, and other stimuli we're routinely exposed to. It's what allows people who live in crowded urban settings to tune out all the noise at night and sleep, and then continue sleeping right through a familiar alarm clock sound in the morning. Odd...
Lyft, the mobility company that doesn't have a viable business model and has never made a profit, opened trading as a public company for the second business day on Monday and investors promptly dumped shares, lowering the company's stock value below its IPO price of $72 per share. In the world of high finance, this is...