In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

In their struggle for survival, bees have an unlikely ally: Monsanto.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”

In 2001, Maksym Igor Popov defected to work as an informant in the U.S. But a decade later, he was back to scamming the FBI.

In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.

Susie Mc­Kinnon cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to aging. She has no core memories. And yet she knows who she is.

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.

A trip to Japan and a glimpse of our automated future.

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

A father, his dying son, and the quest to make the most profound video game ever.

The making of the drone.

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

The author, who works remotely, and her evolving relationship with her physical representation at the office: “an iPad on a stick on a Segway-like base.”

A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.

Who gets out alive when disaster strikes? The people who can afford it.

The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.

A drug derived from cannabis was the only thing that could control a young boy’s seizures.

Autism and Silicon Valley.

An oral history of Industrial Lights & Magic, which gave birth to Star Wars and countless films, as well as playing a hand in the creation of Photoshop and Pixar.