Ananya Bhattacharya

Despite the ban on female feticide in India, ads for sex-selection services are still abundant on the web. In a move to end this and help save the girl child, the Indian supreme court has warned Silicon Valley behemoths Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft against hosting ads that violate the country’s ban on prenatal gender testing and sex selective abortion, the Economic Times newspaper reported. The court ordered the three tech giants to stop promoting sex discrimination kits, tools, and clinics.

Smriti Irani, India’s education minister, has been shunted from textbooks to textiles—her new ministry. The move was part of a cabinet reshuffle announced late on Tuesday (July 5) by prime minister Narendra Modi’s government. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar will replace Irani.

Turns out that Ashley Madison users weren’t the only ones cheating: The dating website was tricking its male users into believing that robots were seductive females.

Years after watching Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ experience getting a liver transplant, CEO Tim Cook wants to help reduce the organ donor shortage in the US.

After traveling 1.7 billion miles over five years, NASA’s spacecraft Juno entered a perfect orbit around Jupiter late on Monday (July 4). Space enthusiasts could follow Juno’s journey through the spaceship’s own eyes via its Twitter account.

If there are flying cars in the future, Toyota wants dibs on making them.

Following the worst disaster to occur at the world’s largest religious gathering in 25 years, the Saudi Arabian government will issue high-tech safety bracelets to Hajj pilgrims this year.

In their fight against paparazzi, 28-year-old Saif Siddiqui is giving celebrities a shot at privacy in public.

The iPhone was launched 9 years ago today, but Thomas S. Ross claims that he basically designed it in 1992.

Communicating in blink-and-miss snaps and 140-character tweets is weakening actual interaction among adolescents.

Have you recently got a parking ticket? This chatbot might be able to help overturn it.

There is no room for hidden motors at this year’s annual bike race in France.

John Oliver’s Brexit nightmare came true on June 23. This Sunday (June 26), he drove home how unfounded it was for UK to leave the EU–and tossed the US a warning on Donald Trump.

In November 2015, the deadly terrorist attack on Paris had Muslims jumping on Twitter to condemn those they supposedly shared a religious identity with. Tweets trending under #NotInMyName declared  that Islam and ISIS were not on the same page.

Google often exports its tech talent to top government posts. In 2014, ex-Google executive Megan Smith was appointed White House chief technology officer. Michael Dickerson works with the federal government’s IT teams to improve government websites. Former employee Katie Jacobs Stanton served as the director of citizen participation at the White House. The list goes on.

Facebook wants to get on the good side of conservatives.

Engineering is a notoriously male-dominated field but one major university is offering some hope that could change someday.

As the Brexit vote draws closer, undecided voters will need to make up their minds. Some will turn to friends and family. Others will turn to news channels. A piece of advice: Whatever you do, avoid Twitter.

An asteroid has been by Earth’s side for around 100 years—and it’s here to stay for a while longer.

Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, is trying to pull the plug on bots.

This father’s day, while many children celebrated their dads with cards, gifts, or brunches, millions of American children were separated from their fathers by prison bars.

Y-Combinator’s Paul Graham knew that working for a Silicon Valley giant was every programmer’s dream back in the day but he was surprised—and somewhat disappointed—to find that little has changed.

A Chicago man may have filmed his own murder on Facebook Live this week.

Amazon acquired Kiva for $775 million in 2012 but only started using the orange robots in its warehouses in late 2014. The deal was expected to make inventory management more efficient. It’s now beginning to become clear by how much.