A South Carolina couple created a viral Halloween display that makes their house look like it is on fire. The realistic decoration has prompted multiple calls to the local fire department. The display ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from ...

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses his new memoir, "This Is For Everyone." In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It's a far cry from what the ...

Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding my work at Lifehacker as a preferred source. If you've had interest in Comet, ...

The Philadelphia Eagles are back for another season at Lincoln Financial Field after winning Super Bowl LIX over the Kansas City Chiefs. If you're heading down to the Linc this upcoming season, it's ...

A few months ago, Apple released FastVLM, a Visual Language Model (VLM) that offered near-instant high-resolution image processing. Now, you can take it for a spin, provided you have an Apple ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Around the beginning of last year, Matthew Prince started receiving worried calls from the bosses of big media companies. They told Mr Prince, whose firm, Cloudflare, provides security infrastructure ...

Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup’s latest effort to challenge Google Search as the primary avenue people use to find information ...

Perplexity has launched its own AI-powered web browser dubbed "Comet" that is available now, but only if you pay $200 a month as part of Perplexity Max. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for an ...