Public health officials fear that vaping-related lung damage could cause the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, to present worse symptoms in users.

As more schools switch to online-only for the rest of the semester in the wake of the coronavirus, many professors are struggling with an unguided transition.

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak, as well as the possibility of future pandemics, illustrates the need for schools to prepare for virus-induced digitalization.

With coronavirus continuing to spread around the globe, it's smart to make sure to regularly clean your phone. Glass and plastic make happy homes for COVID-19.

To make room for high-demand items, Amazon will stop receiving nonessential products in its warehouses in the U.S. and U.K. amid the coronavirus pandemic

Amazon is upping its pay by $2 an hour in the U.S and hiring for 100,000 new full- and part-time positions across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A handwashing expert invented a device to test for contaminants on hands. It doesn't test for coronavirus yet, but having truly clean hands is key to hygiene.

Jif peanut butter has teamed up with the makers of Giphy, everyone’s favorite Slack function, to release a gif-themed peanut butter jar. This clears nothing up.

The vast majority of people would never sell their personal data for a profit, according to a new survey released Monday. Only 3% polled would sell their data.

What looks like a win for privacy may be just the opposite

Sprint and T-Mobile have promised 5G rollouts and coverage, and experts now agree that with the companies' merger, U.S. customers will see 5G coverage sooner.

China's government issued an app that tells people if they've been close to an infected person, but experts say it will only spur more misinformation and panic.

No one can figure out if what Clearview AI is doing with people's personal data is legal, and experts say we need to do better regarding facial recognition.

This week's Iowa caucus voting app debacle, which wreaked havoc on the process, showed us just how unprepared we are for the realities of electronic voting.

Amazon releases 44.4 million metric tons of carbon every year. If it wants to reduce this -- which it has pledged to do -- the retail giant needs to drastically overhaul its shipping methods. And that would mean saying goodbye to something Americans hold dear: Prime shipping.

A group of environmental and labor activists in Southern California are taking on Amazon and the U.S. government. They're hoping to stop a new airport terminal that's expected to be used as a massive Amazon fulfillment center that could make air quality in the area even worse.

Clearview AI is a facial-recognition app that is so powerful that it can tell you a person’s name and contact information from one stray picture. Advocates worry this kind of facial-recognition technology could be a boon to stalkers and people with a history of domestic abuse.

The good news is Iran likely won’t target ordinary Americans. The bad news is the Qassem Soleimani assassination carries more political weight than the Bin Laden raid. Any cyberattacks that will be carried out will be the beginning, not the end, of an Iranian offensive against the U.S.

Experts on cybersecurity told Digital Trends -- after another smart home hack exposed the data of 2.4 million people -- that these systems' lack of security amounts to gross negligence, and anyone who buys one should be aware that their videos are easily accessible to hackers worldwide.

Cobalt is a key component of the lithium-ion battery in our smartphones, computers, and even cars -- items that are all inextricable from the way we live our lives in developed nations. But cobalt mining exploits child labor. What would happen if companies found more ethically extracted resources?

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has floated a compelling possibility: He wants to put together a team to explore decentralizing Twitter. But this could mean that Dorsey is simply trying to shunt off responsibility for Twitter’s persistent problems with harassment and abuse on the platform.

Facebook pushed back against a request from three major world governments to halt plans to provide end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app. The move has been heralded by privacy rights groups over law enforcement objections, but Facebook still makes money off of your data.

The National Labor Relations Board has launched an investigation into Google following the firing of four Google employees -- the so-called Thanksgiving Four -- who were prominent in their attempts to organize a labor union before Google terminated them days before the Thanksgiving holiday.

A judge has tossed out Apple’s attempt to have a class-action lawsuit against it involving the so-called butterfly keyboard dismissed. The verdict could be a step forward for the right to repair movement, which advocates for greater consumer rights to repair products themselves.

Ridesharing company Lyft is being sued by a group of women who say the app has not done enough to prevent sexual assault. This is the second such lawsuit against the company in four months. The wonen's lawyers say the real numbers of people assaulted could be in the thousands.

Instagram will begin asking users for their birthdays in order to enforce legal age restrictions starting today, the company announced. Technically only people age 13 and older are allowed on Instagram’s platform, but the app had no way to check or confirm a user’s age until now.

Facebook on December 2 announced a new data portability feature that will begin rolling out in Ireland before spreading elsewhere: The ability to transport your Facebook photos from Facebook to other platforms. Does this portend a new exodus from the social media platform?

Uber announced a new feature on the app: The ability to make audio recordings of rides and send the audio to Uber in the case of severe misconduct. Attorneys who work with rideshare assault survivors agree that this is "a step in the right direction," even if it's not an all-out solution.

One month after a high-school-age boy survived a double lung transplant due to vaping, the Trump administration reportedly abandoned a promised action to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes nationwide. The doctor who performed the surgery said the ban is needed to stop more cases of teen vaping.

Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has apologized to his staff after calling the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi a mistake during an interview on the HBO show Axios. I am sorry for what I said during that interview, he said. I think some folks are right to have been outraged.

Deepfake videos of U.K. politicians Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn surfaced on Tuesday morning, spread by a think tank aiming to raise awareness of the digital problem. Deepfakes could spell big trouble for the 2020 American presidential election, leaving voters uncertain of what to believe.

Twitter has created a new survey asking users what they want to see from Twitter's new deepfake rules. Between crowdsourcing a deepfake policy and removing political ads, Twitter seems to be redefining its image. But an expert fears that Twitter won't abide by its own rules.