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Cowriter Chris Hayward finds most real-life robots terrifying. But if the future looks like the film’s sentient droid, he says, “we’ll be fine.”

Russian internet control in Ukraine; Canada’s bold drugs trial.

As the Great Resignation rages on, those left behind are doing the job of several people for no extra pay.

Climate change and natural variability are making this a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes.

Plus: Firefox adds new privacy protections, a big Intel and AMD chip flaw, and more of the week’s top security news.

The WikiLeaks founder will appeal the UK Home Office’s decision to extradite him to the US.

Cryptocurrencies are behaving exactly like the rest of the stock market, but the faithful say that’s no reason to jump ship.

Contactless fingerprinting uses a smartphone camera to capture your prints—and opens up a whole new set of privacy concerns.

In physics, experiments to answer the big questions can take decades to run—and might not produce any findings at all.

In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.