“Rememory,” a new movie about what our minds forget, tries to teach a tech lesson that its makers hope you’ll remember. The film, a sci-fi crime drama about a groundbreaking device that records unfiltered memories, spins a cautionary tale of how even well-intentioned technology can, well, ruin lives. Premiering Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival, …

Do Peter Dinklage a favor: Please don’t film him eating out with your iPhone. For his latest film, Dinklage switched from the pseudo-medieval setting of “Game of Thrones” to a not-so-distant future with groundbreaking technology. “Rememory,” premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival, imagines current-day era with a machine that can record and replay anyone’s unfiltered memories. It’s a …

The box office and other systems were shut down by hackers here at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. “Sundance Film Festival had been subject to a cyberattack, causing network outages that shut down our systems,” the festival said in a statement. “Screenings were not affected. The show goes on and our artists’ voices will be heard.” The festival said …

For a group of people so fixated on not dying, gamers don’t talk much about health care. Amy and Ryan Green are an exception. “The Affordable Care Act was something that we were able to use when we got hit by a financial truck,” Ryan Green said of his family’s experience navigating insurance with a terminally ill son while launching …

At an early point in “Dear Angelica,” you switch from watching an animated movie to living inside it. It feels a little like stepping into a dream, except it isn’t one sprung from your own mind, but that of an artist leading you into hers. The virtual reality experience, which visualizes the memories of a fictional daughter about her departed …

No need to hunt for the geeky pockets at Sundance — they’re front and center this year. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night in Park City, Utah, with a science-based call to arms as its opening-night movie. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” revisits the crusade against climate change a decade after “An Inconvenient Truth” became one of …

For one of its biggest channel launches in years, PBS realized that a crucial technology to complete its mission was one that’s existed since the dawn of TV: over-the-air signals. On Monday, the public television programmer fired up PBS Kids, a free channel of 24/7 educational children’s programming. It has familiar shows like “Sesame Street” and “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” as …

Yesterday, I sat across from US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. First impression: The room is way smaller than you’d think. (Obama agreed.) It sounds like something that happened all in my head, but really it happened on my face — a 360-degree video tour of the White House, led by the president and the first lady, via …

So, anything big happen in the last five months we should talk about? On Wednesday, Donald Trump is holding his first formal press conference since being elected US president. Actually, it’s his first press conference in more than five months, and it comes nine days before Trump takes the oath of office. That’s a break from the tradition of previous …

Medium, the web-publishing site run by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is laying off a third of its staff because ad-supported digital media is a “broken system,” Williams said in a blog post Wednesday. The company’s current trajectory risked turning it into an extension of that broken system, Williams said. As a result, the blogging platform will lay off 50 workers, …