With the high-stakes New York mayoral contest hanging in the balance, the largest police department in the country may find itself caught between the promise of reform and the stability that followed ...

A major controversy around a top anime platform has sparked debate among fans, creators, and regulators over access and creative freedom.

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.

Advocates who have fought hard battles to preserve the right of children with disabilities to attend public schools have ...

At a remote field station in Louisiana, scientists study the insects that arrive within minutes of death. Each maggot and ...

In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record ...

Photo by Andy Makely on Unsplash Mobile gadgets have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. Whether it’s for social media browsing, checking emails, managing finances, playing games, or online ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database Friday, turning it into a national “voter verification” tool that appears to sidestep ...

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

Meanwhile, election officials are voicing concern about the reliability of the federal database that the state used to screen ...

The AWS crash exposed centralization risks. Here’s how decentralized storage can make the internet more resilient.

Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their ...