Hiawatha Bray

To environmentalists, fracking is a lose-lose proposition. Oil companies inject billions of gallons of scarce water into the earth to produce billions of tons of oil and gas that pollute the planet when they're burned.

British Royal Kate Middleton is learning the hard way that digital photo editing is harder than it looks.

The gaffe is bad news for the Princess of Wales, but good news for those who fear that the latest digital tools have made it too easy to deceive the public with fake videos, photos, and audio files.

This week's congressional crackdown on the Chinese-owned social network TikTok is only the beginning.

There's a charming lady who works a checkout line at my usual supermarket, a Shaw's in Brockton. I'll sometimes go out of my way to let her scan my paper plates and 2 percent milk.

As social network Reddit goes public Thursday through an initial stock offering, here are a few things you should know about the site that calls itself “the internet's front page.”

According to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office, two people are dead in what is being investigated as a domestic crime.

Since last week's collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, people around Boston have wondered: Could it happen here?

At Friday's grand opening of the new Google Store on Newbury Street, a steady flow of visitors made their way inside.

Defense analysts warn that missile defense technology is still far from foolproof, and that in a war between major powers — the US versus China, for instance — such systems wouldn’t perform nearly as well.