When Microsoft's Windows 10 is released next week in seven countries, each market will receive a specialized version of Cortana, the system's digital personal assistant (and Microsoft's answer to Siri). Microsoft has put yeoman's work into making sure each country's iteration of Cortana is sensitive to local cultural nuances.

A new social media service designed by a Mumbai teenager promises to allow users to "hear the world speak."

The first injury accident involving a Google self-driving car was — surprise, surprise — the fault of an oblivious driver in the other vehicle. Self-driving technology offers a potential future where these sorts of incidents hardly ever occur.

Infants whose mothers used drugs during pregnancy are often born already addicted to those substances. After birth, an analysis of the detached umbilical cord can determine what severe physiological withdrawal symptoms can be expected.

Not everyone has the opportunity to ride a bike to work or school, but those who do would improve their health and save quite a bit of money.

How do you win a cyberwar against an Internet-savvy enemy like ISIS? One prominent researcher has suggested a troll-based battle strategy. That's right: internet trolls. Could World War III be fought with memes?

A tour de force article by The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz details a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that could leave a region home to millions of people in absolute ruins.

More than a million Americans per year elect to go abroad for expensive medical procedures, building a vacation that, in total, costs less than being treated at home.

The only thing more disturbing than an unfamiliar Atticus Finch is the dubious story behind the decision to publish Harper Lee's "found" work.

Your Facebook feed is a virtual echo chamber. It serves the same purpose as Fox News or MSNBC.

A school district in Iowa is one of the first to outfit its administrators with body cameras. Their use should ease tensions with regard to transparency and accountability, but not everyone is happy with the precedent they set.

If you want a vivid barometer for the health status of worldwide marine ecosystems, look no further than the global seabird population. Unfortunately, new research estimates that the global seabird population has dropped 70 percent since the 1950s. That's not good.

The coming decade will see an emergence of new innovations that will keep drunk drivers off the road without the inconvenience of existing breathalyzer technology.

Dermatologists are taking advantage of smartphone technology to offer data-driven, personalized skincare recommendations.

The children of overbearing parents are less likely to develop essential life skills and are more likely to be medicated for depression or anxiety in college.

Bill Nye said the Rosetta mission would lead to amazing discoveries we hadn't yet even thought of. He might have been more right than he imagined.

The space agency seeks to index the parts of the Internet Google won't show you.

You can't expect to foster effective K-12 education using outdated and analog methods to educate kids raised on digital.

Nowhere in American politics do cultural proxy wars play out more vividly than in the chambers of the United States Supreme Court.

The final building to rise in place of the original WTC will be the work of star architect Bjark Ingels, who famously designed Google's new headquarters in California.