Ananya Bhattacharya

Less than two weeks before the US votes, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, announced that “the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation“ into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server. But with the clock ticking, the FBI has failed to divulge any pertinent information from the new emails, making its big announcement look deliberately unfair to the Clinton campaign.

A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech by giving coders a platform to be tested on their raw talent.

It didn’t take rape or death threats for Chelsea Cain to deactivated her account—Twitter being Twitter was enough.

The world’s largest social network is being accused of pandering to racist advertising.

At its headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple unveiled a slew of new laptops and a few other minor updates on Oct. 27. The company hasn’t updated some of its computers in years, and some were long overdue for a refresh. However, Apple kept us waiting on information about its desktop computers.

Twitter is trying to carve itself a path to profitability.

Apple debuted a refreshed line of its flagship laptops during a media event at its headquarters on Oct. 27.

Apple is still awaiting its breakout moment in India, and much of its potential success hinges on the country’s middle class.

Here’s what we know: Every time you tag a friend in a Facebook photo, Facebook stores their image in its database. And here’s what we’re about to find out: whether that’s an illegal violation of users’ privacy.

In its current state, virtual reality technology isn’t exactly seamless. Most versions require that you move your head from side to side to navigate through the virtual screens and operate physical touchpads to click through menu selections.

Sanjay Baweja has called it quits with Flipkart.

If you’re using BlackBerry Messenger to relay private messages, you might want to switch apps.

‘Tis the season to lay off workers at Twitter.

It seems like smartwatch fans are numbered.

Soon, police officers won’t need to pull you over if you’re caught texting while driving. An artificial-intelligence-enhanced speed camera will simply notify authorities directly.

Here’s a finding that will give parents pause: The more time kids spend on their smartphones, the more likely they are to skip their homework.

British magnate Richard Branson is no fan of fellow billionaire Donald Trump.

In keeping with election-year tradition, the two US presidential candidates took a break from a harsh election season to engage in a light-hearted roast last night (Oct. 20).

An online attack early in the US overwhelmed a service from internet-naming service provider Dyn, causing the websites of its customers, including major destinations like Twitter, Spotify, Github and Shopify to be unavailable to swathes of internet users for several hours.

China may be a shrinking market for Apple products, but the App Store is a big hit with Chinese consumers.

Replicating a whole hand to crack open biometrically sealed vaults is the stuff movies are made of.

In 1952, computer science pioneer Alan Turing was convicted under gross indecency laws for having an affair with another man. The legendary Enigma codebreaker lost his security clearance and was forced to undergo chemical castration. Two years after the verdict, Turing died of cyanide poisoning in what was ruled a suicide.

Republican nominee Donald Trump doesn’t miss any opportunity to hold his opponent Hillary Clinton accountable for all sorts of problems.

Donald Trump isn’t over being dissed by Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.