As a new year dawns, I always spend a lot of time thinking about what I worked on in the one that has just ended—the people I hired, the stories we broke, the experiments we tried. Reflecting on...

Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to...

At the moment, TikTok is fighting for survival. The Chinese-owned app has been locked in a monthslong legal battle over a law that will ban it in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if it hasn’t cut ties with its...

When we looked into the future a year ago, we saw a period ahead full of exciting new AI gadgets, dealmaking at Netflix and trouble in a burgeoning corner of the retail world. But even the best...

Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments imagining how artificial beings should interact with humans. The tenets underpin much of modern science...

One of Neal Stephenson’s favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox when he was at Microsoft and a former agent at Creative Artists Agency. Their friendship extends back...

A pop quiz: Which living basketball player has the most-worn signature sneaker in the NBA this season? If you guessed perennial All-Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or even Michael Jordan,...

Despite China’s massive presence in the tech world, the country’s videogame industry never had a big-budget, AAA game release until this August, when Shenzhen-based Game Science released Black...

A twofold panic washed over Northern California last week. The first was very immediate when everyone’s phones got the same alert: an unexpected tsunami warning sparked by a rare 7.0 magnitude...