Why drive home when you could fly there? Uber announced Thursday it’s adding Los Angeles to the list of cities it hopes to pilot its flying car service by 2020. Uber wants to launch its new aerial taxi project, called Elevate, in L.A., Dallas-Fort Worth, and Dubai, the company’s head of product, Jeff Holden, said …

Scientist Stephen Hawking has paid tribute to the teacher who inspired his early steps into scholarship. He says Dikran Tahta at St Albans School opened his eyes to maths, which he describes as the “blueprint of the universe”. “My handwriting was bad, and I could be lazy. Many teachers were boring. Not Mr Tahta,” said …

Twitter announced on Tuesday it will double the limit for tweets to 280 characters, a bid to draw in more users and boost engagement at the social network. Giving users twice the space to voice their thoughts ushers in a new era for the online platform, whose hallmark 140-character cap had encouraged users to craft …

There are pretty much two types of people in the world: Those who shut their computers down every night, and those who close their laptops without turning them off. You’ve probably heard mixed messages about which one is better for saving energy and keeping your hardware up to snuff, so we’re here to set the …

The problem with deleting information is that nothing is ever really gone from the internet. It’s a perennial joke: “If I die, delete my browser history.” Everyone gets it because no matter how unquestionable your internet activity might be, we all have weird Google searches people might not understand when taken out of context. And …