A Massachusetts man accidentally set his home on fire while using a blowtorch to melt ice stubbornly clinging to his roof after the winter storm that battered the Northeast last week. The homeowner in ...

The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports. In several cases over recent ...

Mother pleads guilty to malnutrition death of her 1-month-old baby A mother has been sentenced to serve just over a year and a half in jail after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter and neglect ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

You may think you've seen everything iOS 26 has to offer, but there's so much more to discover. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and ...

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Here’s how to be sure you have the latest HomePod software update. Or stop your smart speaker from updating automatically. The HomePod operating system occasionally needs updating, because the device ...

Networks created after police killed George Floyd were reactivated to challenge Trump’s mass deportation policy Cory never expected he’d spend hours each day driving around after immigration agents, ...

The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes. By Alan Feuer Glenn Thrush and Michael S. Schmidt Federal ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has for years said that he didn’t know convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein very well. In 2019, shortly before Epstein died in a New York jail cell, Musk told Vanity Fair ...

Microsoft doesn't sit still for many years between major OS versions, and Windows 11 is already approaching its fifth year of existence. Here's what Windows 12 might look like, based on leaked code, ...