Smart credit cards, which have a computer chip on them and promise to make shopping more secure, are finally available in the United States. The problem is, very few places can read the chip.

City officials have called for a hearing investigating Waymo after the company’s self-driving taxis suffered widespread problems during a power outage. By Soumya Karlamangla San Francisco officials on ...

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

A Waymo outside Mission High School. Photo by Yujie Zhou. Waymo said Sunday afternoon that it would return its autonomous fleet to San Francisco’s streets after pulling its cars off the road when they ...

Power has been restored to the homes and businesses of most utility customers affected by a massive outage in San Francisco that darkened the city Saturday. The significant outage began affecting the ...

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The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

LATEST Dec. 23 7:15 a.m. PG&E announced power has been fully restored in San Francisco, bringing needed relief to the thousands who were without electricity more than two days after the outage started ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. After Saturday’s blackout, roughly 110,000 San Francisco residents have power again. About 21,000 are still in the ...