In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs. By Peter S. Goodman Peter S. Goodman is the global ...

California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit data brokers’ ability to store and sell their personal information. While state residents have had the right to ...

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and ...

PCWorld explains how incognito mode only prevents local history saving but leaves DNS cache traces that can reveal visited websites on your device. The guide covers clearing DNS cache on Windows, Mac, ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

For some time now, Microsoft has also required users to log in to their computer with an online account in the home editions of Windows 10 and 11. Although it’s ...

Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliated researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society. You may have seen ads by ...

Google is testing a new option in Chrome on Android that lets users manually simplify web pages, making them easier to read. This option is called the "Reader Mode Dev Entry Point" and is currently ...

Many 23andMe customers signed up to the genetic testing service in hopes of learning fun or interesting information about their past. But consumer advocates are now urging those users to request the ...

The genetic testing company 23andMe, best known for allowing people to trace their ancestry with an at-home kit, has been struggling financially for months. So when the California biotech firm ...

The Japanese automaker's local US division – American Honda – registered a stellar result last year when it surpassed Stellantis' bundle of brands with just two marques, the namesake Honda and Acura.