Innovation

Uber has for years pushed back against the idea that its drivers are employees of the company, touting the promise of "flexibility" and "control" over providing protections and benefits. Now company CEO Dara Khosrowshahi believes that gig economy…

Throughout 2019, Lucas Rizotto filmed his entire life. Using a pair of glasses that record whatever the wearer is seeing in stereoscopic 3D, he filmed everything from hanging with friends to eating bagels in a tree to traveling around the world. At…

2020 is shaping up to be one hell of a year. On top of murder hornets and zombie cicadas, we've now got a thing called hell ants. The hell ants, mercifully, are not alive, but a new study about one specimen trapped in amber has revealed details…

Going green takes a lot of organization and discipline. It's harder to remember to use the last of that broccoli before it goes bad — and to compost the scraps — than to just chuck it in the trash once it's rotten. And buying clothes secondhand is…

As the coronavirus continues to ravage the United States, health officials are pleading with people to continue social distancing, avoid groups, and limit trips to public areas as much as possible. While these efforts are essential steps in…

We already had a pretty good idea that destroying the environment was bad. But it turns out it’s not just climate change that we have to worry about. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, by tearing down natural ecosystems…

BP is no stranger to massive cleanup efforts, and the latest mess in need of a good cleaning is its own reputation. Back in February, the oil giant announced that it would set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2050. This week, the company got more…

The science is clear on just how essential face masks are in slowing the spread of coronavirus, and in most places around the country they are a ubiquitous presence on city streets. But plain face masks can be so, well, plain. Health conscious,…

Donald Trump wants TikTok to be an American-run company. He wants that outcome so badly he’s willing to ban the app entirely if he doesn't get his way. It seems likely that Trump will get his wish, though, as Microsoft is reportedly in talks to…

Facebook, Instagram's parent company, smells techie blood in the water and is eager to take a bite out of TikTok. To that end, Instagram has announced a new feature to the platform called Reels — a way for people to create short videos up to 15…

God forbid a week go by in 2020 without something inexplicably weird or upsetting happening. The latest sign that we are living in the worst timeline is a horror movie come to life in West Virginia. According to research conducted by the University…

Deaths caused by rising temperatures will kill more people than all known infectious diseases combined, and it'll hit poorer and hotter countries the hardest, a bleak new study has warned. The report, published by the National Bureau of Economic…

Space is wild. I mean, how does it even work? And is anything really out there in the depths of the vast darkness? As super smart scientists work tirelessly to find the answers to these questions, us Average Joes can turn to video games to play out…

Last month, Twitter experienced one of the largest and strangest hacks in the company's history. Over the course of nearly three hours, about 130 high-profile Twitter accounts—including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Kanye West—were…

At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme global warming, prompting the majority of species on Earth to die out. In the past, these events were triggered by a huge…

On Wednesday, the heads of the biggest companies in the tech industry appeared on what was likely the tensest Zoom call in history. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg all showed up…

Archaeologists have finally discovered where the largest standing stones in Stonehenge come from, and it's all thanks to a restoration worker who kept a drilled-out portion of one of the slabs for over 60 years. As he was turning 90 last year, he…

Nature documentaries are a great way to get to know this big planet full of life that we all call home. Researchers are constantly discovering more and more about the Earth, and these films can offer the public an easy way to understand how human…

Nintendo has announced the second part of its summer update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. 'Wave 2,' as it's called, will wind down the summer season with a colorful bang when it drops on July 30. It features weekly fireworks, traveling through…