Ready or not, here they come: Scientists who played hide and seek with rats found that their furry subjects seemed to love the game -- and they were remarkably good at it.

The unconventional experiment, described in Friday's edition of the journal Science, sheds light on the sophisticated sense of play in these tiny rodents and the complex ...Read more

What do you get when you divide $3 million by 347? A Villanova University senior is about to find out.

Actually, this student can probably do the math in his head.

Jadyn Anczarski, who is majoring in physics, learned this month that he and assistant professor Joey Neilsen each will get a share of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Ten years ago computational neuroscientist Dr. Eugene Izhikevich walked away from a successful career in academia to co-found Brain Corp. with the ambitious goal of building artificial brains for robots.

These days when the Russian-born Izhikevich lands late at San Diego International Airport, he sometimes sees the fruits of that ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- After facing lawsuits and criticisms related to the safety of its riders, Lyft said it will implement new measures designed to improve the security of its customers and its drivers.

In a blog post Tuesday, Lyft co-founder and President John Zimmer said that the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company will now partner with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- With Big Tech accused of everything from decimating industries to abusing privacy, calls are growing for the creation of a federal regulator.

Presidential candidates, consumer advocates and some antitrust enforcers have focused on breaking up Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google -- or at least ...Read more

Q: Over the last three years, I've been the victim of harassment via the internet and cellphone calls. I've reported it to the police and the FBI, but they haven't been able to stop it. Do you have any idea what I can do about the following:

-- My husband and I use Wi-Fi to access the internet on our iPhones, but I'm having trouble logging in ...Read more

Apple on Tuesday kicked off its annual holiday season push by revealing more details about how it intends to make a splash in the streaming television market with its upcoming Apple TV+ subscription service.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple TV+ will make its debut Nov. 1, with some original programming and other TV shows and movies. In a move ...Read more

CHICAGO -- McDonald's on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a voice technology company to help speed up ordering at the drive thru, the latest in a series of high-tech investments by the fast-food chain as it strives to improve wait times and draw customers to its restaurants.

McDonald's declined to disclose the terms of its agreement to buy ...Read more

Substantial majorities of Americans -- both those who own firearms and those who do not -- support measures that would require first-time gun buyers and those wishing to carry a concealed weapon to demonstrate they can safely own and handle a gun, according to a new study.

In a national survey conducted in January, researchers from Johns ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Inc. and manufacturing partner Foxconn violated a Chinese labor rule by using too many temporary staff members in the world's largest iPhone factory, the companies confirmed following a report that also alleged harsh working conditions.

The claims came from China Labor Watch, which issued the report ahead of an Apple ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Facebook is under antitrust investigation by the attorneys general of eight states and Washington, D.C., the second such probe it is facing amid a growing backlash against U.S. tech giants.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday that she is leading the investigation.

"Even the largest social media platform...Read more

CHICAGO -- An Illinois woman and her daughter filed a lawsuit Thursday against education publishing giant Pearson, accusing the British-owned company of negligently handling student data and causing a data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly one million students in 13 states, including tens of thousands in the Chicago area...Read more

Ever wonder why there's so much bad news out there? Maybe it's because people find bad news more interesting than good news.

A new study involving more than 1,000 people across 17 countries spanning every continent but Antarctica concludes that, on average, people pay more attention to negative news than to positive news.

The findings, ...Read more

Payal Kadakia, 36, is executive chairwoman of ClassPass, the popular app and monthly subscription service that she founded in 2011. ClassPass gives users the freedom to take a broad range of exercise classes, including yoga, cycling, Pilates, strength training, boxing and more. ClassPass users also have access to more than 22,000 fitness studios...Read more

Q: I wondered why I was getting more than 30 spam e-mails a day with names such as "Russian Women Online" or "Best Home Warranty." Then I discovered my Outlook.com e-mail account listed many e-mail "subscriptions" I didn't sign up for. When I clicked to "unsubscribe," I was told I'd be taken to a suspicious-sounding website, so just emptied my ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Google's YouTube agreed on Wednesday to pay a $170 million fine and limit ads on kids' videos to settle claims that the company violated children's privacy laws.

The world's largest video-sharing site agreed to pay the fine, which is a record for a children's privacy case, to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and New York State ...Read more