Technology

The makers of apps that document permission-to-proceed hope to sharpen blurry lines—and tackle sex assault. But others have concerns.

Imagine a time when people just went to sleep and later on woke up. Suckers!

Watch the Nobel Laureate’s lecture on his work on April 13, at 7 pm ET

Has crowdfunding made mooches of us all?

These winners from the annual Product of the Year awards are capitalizing on some of the biggest consumer trends right now

Driving schools have a new challenge: features in cars that make us safer—and stupider

When he invented email, Ray Tomlinson also transformed the @ sign from 1,500-year-old typographic relic into the workhorse of Internet communications

Despite the PM’s love for Silicon Valley, relying on foreign tech firms for jobs risks turning Canada into a branch-plant economy

It takes a huge amount of hot water to make the ice in hockey rinks. How technology is helping rinks go green.

An explainer on Tim Cook’s stand against a court order demanding Apple to create a ’master key’ to unlock a terrorist gunman’s phone