It’s been mere months since Samsung released the Galaxy Watch Active, but that didn’t stop it from announcing the Galaxy Watch Active 2 ahead of its August 7 Unpacked event. The second-generation smartwatch features a few welcome upgrades in the form

Every day, Facebook’s artificial intelligence algorithms tackle the enormous task of finding and removing millions of posts containing spam, hate speech, nudity, violence, and terrorist propaganda. And though the company has access to some of the wor

Nation-states around the globe are well aware that their foes are one extended power outage, ransomware crisis, or data dump away from chaos.

Amazon is unique among big US tech corporations. It’s not just an e-commerce and shopping giant, a cloud provider, a device-maker, or a software-and-services platform—it’s a money-making leviathan with tentacles stretching into new industries and mar

It’s easier—and cheaper—to get to space than ever before. How do we protect what we put there?

Amazon’s Alexa is intended to be a helpful digital home assistant: setting timers, telling you the weather, and buying items off Amazon for you, among other things. Recently, however, Bloomberg reported that Amazon has thousands of employees listeni

Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and Google Home are growing in popularity, mostly as a means to listen to music. But they do a lot more than that, from answering questions to controlling your smart home. These speakers have mi

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 Black Edition (7590) $1,499.99 3.5/5 Stars GOOD PROS Sleek aluminum design with nifty pen-holder hinge. Perky performance. Responsive keyboard and pen. CONS Heavy and bulky, like all 15.6-inch convertibles. No Thunde

The Las Vegas sun has set on another Black Hat and the myriad of hacks, attacks, and vulnerabilities it brings. We had high expectations this year and were not disappointed. We were even occasionally surprised. Here are all the great and terrifying t

One easy way to safeguard yourself from property theft, home invasion, porch pirates, and unwanted solicitors is to identify who is at your doorstep before opening the door. Enter the video doorbell, a first line of defense for homeowners that not on

Still use Facebook even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Libra, and more privacy and ethics violations than you and your extended family can count on their fingers and toes? Then you should have no ethical concerns over the computer-brain inter

Lenovo IdeaPad S940 $1,399.99 4/5 Stars EXCELLENT PROS Beautiful aluminum design. Innovative screen bezels add to its sharp looks. Speakers surprisingly powerful. Comfy keyboard. CONS 4K display upgrade downgrades battery life. Performance a ste

The Sony a7R III has been our Editors’ Choice pick among its high-resolution full-frame peers since its introduction. Although that model has been on the market less than two years, Sony is refreshing the camera. The successor may have an uninspired

FuboTV $79.99 4/5 Stars EXCELLENT PROS Wide variety of live sports and on-demand entertainment content. Reliable streaming. Good web and mobile apps. Capable DVR functionality. Some 4K content. CONS Expensive. Most live streams limited to 720p.

My inspiration for this story came from a friend who emailed me last week. She’d read about online privacy and security and decided to move to “less data-miney” platforms. She was jumping ship from Gmail and had copied her new address. “I obviously s

Dell Latitude 7200 2-in-1 Starts at $979; $2,119 as tested 4/5 Stars EXCELLENT PROS Automatically extending kickstand. Sturdy keyboard case. Three-year warranty, as configured. Excellent computing performance. CONS Expensive in test configuratio

Studying abroad is a rite of passage (and tremendous privilege). It’s a chance to explore new places, meet new people, and experience new soul-rending, sleep-killing anxieties; but, if you’re smart, you can nix some pre-and post-departure paranoia by

If you’re searching for signs of alien life, head to Washington state. According to a new analysis by SatelliteInternet.com, Washington is the state with the most UFO sightings per capita: For every 100,000 people in Washington, some 78 have reported

The question of whether (and when) to buy your child a smartphone is fraught with concerns over responsibility, online safety, and much more. The same goes for buying a laptop, with an additional important difference: Some schools require parents to

For a long while, you’d rarely find a computer without an Intel CPU. But with the recent rise of GPU-centric processing in blockchain and AI as well as ARM’s dominance in mobile computing, Intel has struggled to keep up. To compete and remain innnova