Alex Vardakostas has been on a decade-long quest to build a robot that can prepare the perfect cheeseburger. It could also put his family out of work.

Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell.

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

Burt Dorman says that the scientific mainstream missed the chance to wipe out AIDS and save the lives of 35 million people. Now he wants another try.

The story of suck.com.

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

Born at a barely viable 24 weeks, Owen’s life began as a battle for survival. His future is a test for how far neonatal medicine has come.

A 42,000-word, 3-continent spanning “hacker tourist” account of the laying of the (then) longest wire on earth.

The idealistic entrepreneur turns wild experiences into viral videos into actual science into a going business concern.

Journalist Kim Wall was murdered aboard a homemade submarine while reporting on the designer of the vessel. Her friend and fellow journalist wanted to know what really happened to her.

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.

Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.

Can local news survive?

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.

How it feels to lose $30,000 in Bitcoin.

What happens when robots act just like humans?

The material powers solar panels and microchips. In Alabama, two thieves cashed in.

Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.

Senior House was a haven for creative outsiders. In a move that is being echoed on campuses around the country, administrators said it was dangerous and shut it down.

The origins of the misunderstood agency.

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”