Technology, Anxiety, & the Apocalypse

Companies and governments have access to an unprecedented amount of digital information, much of it personal: what we buy, what we search for, what we read online.

Schools across country adopting host of new measures designed to support individuals before they get in serious trouble

Okay, so the truth is... this is really corny! I stayed up all night making this video when I should've been studying for a Journalism exam. I decided that s...

Militaries want soldiers to carry an increasing amount of tech on to the battlefield, but that isn\'t necessarily convenient -- or comfortable. MIT and

"Why Don't We Have..." is a PopMech series that quickly explains why some of the technologies promised by science fiction have yet to become fact. Today: the transporter.

There are many things I like better about my Android phone compared to my old iPhone, but one of the big ones is something that is missing: namely, all those irritating real-time notifications

In today's world, where just about everything is more convenient and accessible due to advances in technology across almost all sectors, it may seem as though it's a misnomer to even mention any ...

It seems like everyone is talking – at least in pop culture circles – about the apocalypse. A Stanford literary scholar has tied our obsession with zombies to the advent of nuclear war and a post World War II survivalist mentality.

A week with Cody R. Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student working to build semiautomatic weapons using 3D printers.

It turns out that electronic medical test results are a lot like email: many get lost in the digital shuffle. Researchers from the Michael E.

Two months ago, the popular political blogger left the comfortable world of big media and struck out on his own. His bold new plan: Ask readers to pay to subscribe to his blog.

It might be a tipping point. Last week saw the full unveiling of Google Glass, the first of a new generation of web-connected wearable technology.

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

[...] if the consumer-tech product cycle has become a wee bit predictable, it's also clear that steady progress in hard computer science and high-level engineering will continue to alter our relationship with machines in more fundamental and...

No more obnoxious virtual-reality helmets or chunky heart-rate monitors: Today's barely noticeable wearable tech wirelessly beams data to your phone or to the cloud.

2013 is going to be a big year for new technology. We survived the apocalypse, now we move forward to folding cars and flexible cell phones.

Guest post written by David Alan Grier David Alan Grier is associate professor of international science and technology policy and international affairs at George Washington University, and president-elect for the IEEE Computer Society.

Vendors scramble to meet physicians' demands for iPad- and smartphone-native electronic health record applications.

The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build;...