All Boeing 737 Max aircraft are grounded while the manufacturer fixes a deadly defect in their flight control system. These Southwest Airlines planes were parked in Victorville, Calif., in March. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Jacob Reed, director of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems degree program at Lewis University, demonstrates a drone at the school's airfield outside of Chicago. David Schaper/NPR hide caption
A Fortnite fan performs a dance at the Gamescom gaming industry event in August. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Grounded Gol Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max aircraft at Boeing facilities in Moses Lake, Wash., last month Lindsey Wasson/Reuters hide caption
Cornershop was founded by a group of friends in 2015 and is based in Santiago, Chile. The grocery delivery company primarily serves Latin America. Courtesy of Cornershop hide caption
A protester in Hong Kong checks his phone for police activity during a protest against the government in Hong Kong's New Territories, in August. Aidan Marzo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Twitter Analysis Shows How Trump Tweets Differently About Nonwhite Lawmakers
The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
Employers are using virtual reality to train millions of workers in everything from operating machines to how to handle active shooters. Courtesy of Strivr hide caption
Visitors are tracked by face recognition technology from state-owned surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision at the Security China 2018 expo in Beijing. Hikvision is one of several firms that have been added to a U.S. trade blacklist. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption
Christopher Wylie, a Canadian data scientist, speaks on Aug. 31 at the Antidote festival at the Sydney Opera House about his role in exposing the work of Cambridge Analytica. Fairfax Media hide caption
An app uses a smartphone camera to detect leukocoria, a pale reflection from the back of the eye. It can be an early sign of disease. Here it appears light brown compared the healthy eye. Munson et al., Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 eaax 6363 hide caption
Screaming Into The Void: How Outrage Is Hijacking Our Culture, And Our Minds
A Tesla 3 model is remotely driven with the company's phone app in Austin, Texas, in this still image taken from social media video. Parth Dhebar via Reuters hide caption
Microsoft said it has seen "significant cyber activity" by a hacker group with suspected ties to Iran. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks Friday at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., during a summit on warrant-proof encryption and its impact on child exploitation cases. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Taken in aggregate, the billions of online searches we make every day say a lot about our most private thoughts and biases. Lee Woodgate/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at an Uber products launch in San Francisco on Sept. 26. The company is launching its Uber Works app in Chicago, aiming to make it easier for workers to find temporary shifts. Philip Pacheco /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, speaks about the social media platform's anti-bullying efforts at the F8 developers conference in San Jose, Calif., on April 30. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption