Over the past thirty years, few cities have undergone the transformation that Shanghai has. It went from a vertically challenged city filled with greenery to mutant New York on speed and steroids. Claire and Max illustrate how much has changed by eliminating the current buildings from the skyline and then drawing them… » 10/17/14 10:23pm Yesterday 10:23pm

The U.S. Air Force's top secret X-37B Space Plane made a not-so-secret return to Earth this morning, landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after an impressive 674 days in orbit. » 10/17/14 9:59pm Yesterday 9:59pm

It's taken Apple a little while to take its latest phone to China. But, as a Wall Street Journal correspondent points out, now it's there, reaction to its arrival seems to be "decidedly low-key." » 10/17/14 3:40am Yesterday 3:40am

The March-April 1986 issue of The Futurist magazine looked at the far off, futuristic decade of the 1990s. In an article titled "Issues for the 1990s," Edith Weiner and Arnold Brown examined what they saw as the emerging concerns of the world. Well, the world as seen from 1980s America. » 10/10/14 4:53pm 10/10/14 4:53pm

Protesters in Hong Kong have started communicating via FireChat, an app that lets people send messages without cell reception. » 9/29/14 10:40am 9/29/14 10:40am

Think that you have it hard, with your internship forcing you to work 8-hour days making coffee for no pay? Well, a WSJ report might make you feel a little better: Chinese factories are relying on cheap intern labour to keep the manufacturing dream alive. » 9/25/14 3:00am 9/25/14 3:00am

When we think about where hackers come from, China is probably the first country that comes to mind—for good reason, too. Russia's maybe next in line. But a controlled experiment by cyber security researchers shows that the vast majority of attacks actually come from a very familiar place: the United States. » 9/24/14 11:00am 9/24/14 11:00am

The sprawling Hermitage Museum has long reigned as the world's largest museum—but China has plans to come close to it with a huge new building for the National Art Museum of China, the design plans for which were recently released by French architect Jean Nouvel. » 9/23/14 1:20pm 9/23/14 1:20pm

A year ago Brian Grubb and Dominik Preisner thought it would be a good idea to wakeskate across one of the most amazing spots in the planet, the famous rice terraces of Banaue, Philippines, who many consider one of the wonders of the world. It was. Here's the video to prove it. » 9/22/14 7:25pm 9/22/14 7:25pm

Adolescent delinquency is directly linked to verbal child abuse. That's why the Center for Psychological Research in Shenyang, China, made this PSA to raise awareness about this problem, transforming distressing words into deadly weapons. » 9/18/14 12:54am 9/18/14 12:54am

Want to pretend you went to the Ivy League? If you have some money and know how to log onto China's version of eBay, Taobao, it's not so hard. It is, however, illegal. » 9/10/14 1:24pm 9/10/14 1:24pm

China's getting into the UAV game in a big way. Well, really, the only way it knows how: by closely mimicking the existing technology of a foreign power and slapping a new name on it. Say hello to the MQ-1 Preda—I mean, Cai Hong-4 "Rainbow". » 9/04/14 11:40am 9/04/14 11:40am

Recently, Stephen Colbert lampooned gadgets that track what you drink and other seemingly inane metrics. But the trend may have just found its ideal market. The Chinese search giant Baidu just introduced a pair of "smart chopsticks" designed to alert users to the presence of "gutter oil," or the illegal use of oil… » 9/03/14 10:17pm 9/03/14 10:17pm

The Chinese computing market looks much like most of the world. Windows rules desktops. Android rules smartphones. Now, the Chinese government wants to challenge both giants by putting its own homegrown operating system on everything. » 8/25/14 2:24am 8/25/14 2:24am

This month's installment of Chinese hackers stealing your data focuses on breaches at an especially scary type of venue: hospitals. A massive hospital empire that mostly serves small towns and rural areas reports that hackers lifted 4.5 million patient records earlier this year. You might be surprised by what the… » 8/18/14 12:20pm 8/18/14 12:20pm

Apple has begun keeping some of its Chinese users' personal data in China, Reuters revealed yesterday. That's significant because it is the first tech company to store information in the notoriously snoop-happy country, thus raising concerns that the data might be looked at by authorities. » 8/16/14 10:15am 8/16/14 10:15am

One hundred years ago today, the SS Ancon became the first ship to officially pass through the Panama Canal. Because of the outbreak of World War I, there wasn't a big party for the grand opening. The waterway would go on change the history of transportation, and now it's time to change the canal itself. » 8/15/14 4:00pm 8/15/14 4:00pm

You can buy your pretty new iPhone 6 with somewhat of a clearer conscience this fall. Apple announced today that they're eliminating two known toxins—benzene and n-hexane—from the production of iPhone and iPads. » 8/13/14 8:10pm 8/13/14 8:10pm