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Thousands of hackers are gathered in Las Vegas this weekend at Def Con. Artificial intelligence is a big focus of this year's conference.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with The Atlantic's Amanda Mull about the convenience of online shopping and how it can lead to buying things you don't really need or want.

As the Senate turns to immigration, there's also a lot at stake for the young undocumented immigrants known as DREAMers — and for millions of their family members, too.

In arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a majority of justices raised concerns about privacy in the modern digital age.

Social scientists say three things matter for success in life: IQ, family's socioeconomic status and one thing that's easy to influence: self-control. A child's self-control in preschool helps predict possible health, substance abuse and financial problems later in life, researchers found.

The issue became national news when families said they waited months for word about missing loved ones — only to learn their relative had been buried without notice.

Trevor Paglen discusses military black ops patches, which he's collected in a a new art and history book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me.

Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.

New Nielsen TV ratings show a surprising winner for July: YouTube. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Lucas Shaw of Bloomberg News about what that might mean for the industry.

President Trump stunned lawmakers and guests in the House chamber when he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh in the middle of his prime-time speech.