Six years ago, three former Mossad agents launched an experimental Israeli Army program to recruit those on the autism spectrum, harnessing their unique aptitudes—their "superpowers," as one soldier puts it.

Synthetic Biology is making it easier than ever to produce life-saving vaccines - and life-taking viruses that humanity is not prepared to fight.

How a down-on-his-luck headbanger fabricated a persona, faked a tour, and promoted himself as a hard-rock savior

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3-billion-dollar-a-year industry

A bank glitch gave a 24-year old, down-on-his-luck Australian man access to unlimited funds. Then he did exactly what you think he did with it.

Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?

How a teenager created Oculus Rift in his parents' SoCal garage, sold it for $2 billion and may have launched a virtual reality revolution.

Guillaume Olivier Madiba is helming one of the world’s most innovative videogame companies—not in Silicon Valley or Japan, but in Africa, where Kiro’o Games is diversifying a $100 billion industry

To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.

Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent — fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison

In a town where everyone has been pwned, or soon will be, there’s no such thing as false paranoia. Which brings us to Oliver Stone and his upcoming Snowden biopic.

Mark Karpeles was the accidental emperor of bitcoin. Then a half-billion dollars worth of bitcoins vanished from his exchange.

His website made him an unlikely teenage celebrity — then it spun out of control

How a former steer wrestler became one of America’s biggest wildlife traffickers.

They were Vine's first superstars, falling in love online, and making lots of money from it. But once they met in the real world, things went horribly wrong.