Twitter is one of many social media companies that’s struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system that changes based on how wrong you are, according to app res … | Continue reading
Researchers have identified a Sudanese melon as the progenitor of the domesticated watermelon. | Continue reading
Iran banned bitcoin mining this week, after four months of blackouts partially due to what officials say is a huge energy suck from illegal mining. President Hassan Rouhani said illegal bitcoin mining was tapping a staggering 2 gigawatts of power each day. | Continue reading
WhatsApp initially threatened to revoke core functions for users that refused to accept its controversial new privacy policy, only to walk back the severity of those consequences earlier this month amid international backlash, and now, it’s doing away with them altogether (for th … | Continue reading
A group of UK officers who thought they were going to bust up a massive cannabis farm found something completely different behind the doors of a local warehouse: a regular, legal, bitcoin mine. | Continue reading
Have I Been Pwned, or HIBP, a website that allows users to check if their passwords have been compromised, is about to get a powerful new partner—the Feds. | Continue reading
For at least the second time in recent memory, a person’s life potentially hinges on critical information that is being withheld by a social platform. | Continue reading
The policy shift comes on the same day that President Joe Biden called upon U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Like the city it calls home, Lego’s 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum has already fallen as the largest set ever released by the toymaker. Half a year after the landmark’s reveal, Lego’s new World Map set has stolen the record with 11,695 pieces that mostly consist of tiny single-stud … | Continue reading
Netflix is seriously considering expanding into gaming, according to several reports from the past few days. Not only is the streaming giant rumored to be looking to hire a gaming executive to oversee the effort, but it’s also reportedly mulling building out its own version of an … | Continue reading
Visiting a beloved pet on a video call just isn’t the same, so researchers at National Taiwan University developed a VR controller that allows the user to feel simulated fur while petting a virtual animal. | Continue reading
Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement—and the drums could be useful for developing quantum compu … | Continue reading
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is facing a million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea to create a Woz-branded tech school, according to a weekend Insider report. | Continue reading
In what truly seems like a dystopian nightmare come to life, the public safety alert app Citizen apparently has plans to hire teams of security contractors to respond to app users’ incident response requests—a sort of Blackwater-ification of local public safety that can surely on … | Continue reading
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the brain’s uncanny ability to adapt and leverage an entirely new body part, and in ways the researchers are still trying to understand. | Continue reading
If there’s one sure sign a creature isn’t of this world, but some other horrific realm, it’s a lack of a face. | Continue reading
You'll soon be able to use your Nest and your Android phone to control other Matter-compatible gadgets. | Continue reading
The $400 tablet has a built-in stylus and seems tailor-made for both note-taking and reading. | Continue reading
We’re officially entering the second week in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine, which means we probably haven’t seen the last of the hundreds of deaths and countless injuries inflicted on Gaza residents thus far. If you’re looking for a way to donate to the victims, … | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency market has taken a major dive, as it does. Now a band of traders has decided to form the people’s coin, appropriately named StopElon, to Stop Elon Musk from wielding intractable control over the market with his tweets. Much like China. And Mark Cuban. And volat … | Continue reading
For $75, you can play most of your classic faves. | Continue reading
Whenever deepfakes make the news, it’s almost always for the latest terrifying way bad actors have figured out how to spawn hoaxes or cyberbully people using the AI-powered technology. However, the media industry has found some more practical (and less sinister) applications, suc … | Continue reading
Twitter hasn’t released many details about the paid subscription model it’s cooking up, but thanks to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong we may have some clues about what it will cost and be called. On Saturday, Wong tweeted that the subscription service Twitter Blue will cost $2.9 … | Continue reading
Twitter hasn’t released many details about the paid subscription model it’s cooking up, but thanks to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong we may have some clues about what it will cost and be called. On Saturday, Wong tweeted that the subscription service Twitter Blue will cost $2.9 … | Continue reading
Amid a DOJ probe, people are trying to rescue open-source academic paper site Sci-Hub before it’s wiped off the web. A group of data-hoarding redditors have banned together to torent each of the 85 million articles currently housed within Sci-Hub’s walls. | Continue reading
Billboards are moving into your vehicle's infotainment screen. | Continue reading
Binance, the world’s largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. | Continue reading
This board lets you engineer your own IoT hardware. | Continue reading
For about $2,000 a month, Bloomberg Terminals seem like a tremendous waste of money for anyone but the avid trader. But! Did you know that insane price comes with access to a special classifieds section, populated exclusively with stuff from other overpaid Bloomberg subscribers? … | Continue reading
These days, if you’re arrested and charged with a crime, the first thing cops will likely do is look at the contents of your phone. Digital forensics is increasingly a favorite way to secure a conviction, or at least gain a broader understanding of a suspect. | Continue reading
The Chicago Police Department started a secret drone program using untraceable money seized in drug raids and other criminal investigations, according to a bombshell new report from the Chicago Sun-Times. | Continue reading
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have translated the cognitive signals associated with handwriting into text, and in real time. | Continue reading
The Department of Justice quietly seized phone records and tried to obtain email records for three Washington Post reporters, ostensibly over their coverage of then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, according to officials and … | Continue reading
Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in which the team hunted for radio signals along a line of sight that extends toward the galactic center. | Continue reading
A new printer called Forust is using scrap wood to 3D print wooden objects that are as structurally sound as regular carved wood. | Continue reading
The infamous Star Trek Voyager episode "Tuvix" aired 25 years ago today, beginning an ethical debate among fans that is still contested—Captain Janeway's decision to kill a transporter-created sentient being to restore two of her crewmates' lives. | Continue reading
Sony is finally embracing its mirrorless future as it kills off its few remaining DSLR/DSLT cameras. | Continue reading
Back in 2018, researchers from Brigham Young University demonstrated a device called an Optical Trap Display that used lasers to create free-floating holographic images that don’t need a display. That same team is now demonstrating a new technique that allows those holographic im … | Continue reading
A series of Instagram ads run by Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users. | Continue reading
In April, Clubhouse reached a grand total of 922,000 downloads, new research found, a sharp downturn after bringing in millions of new users just a month earlier. | Continue reading
The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic’s onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues. However, that pandemic-fueled growth is also highlighting Etsy’s struggle to moderate what goes up for sale on its platform. A … | Continue reading
This is Shannon’s information theory, and it’s the equation that makes data compression possible. Without it, you wouldn’t be reading this article online right now. | Continue reading
When you think of night-vision goggles, you probably imagine the pitch black of night being illuminated in a sea of green that helps improve visibility. That’s ancient technology now as the US Army’s Lancer Brigade of Joint Base Lewis–McChord demonstrates what soldiers see throug … | Continue reading
Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, sent a tweet Thursday night about the real problem with self-driving cars. And as you can probably guess by now, it’s one of those things that sounds profound until you stop to think about it for three seconds. That’s more or … | Continue reading
Apple took its best screen technology and put it in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. | Continue reading
Now you won't have to fight to squeeze out every drop of toothpaste. | Continue reading
A Maryland defense attorney has decided to challenge the conviction of one of his clients after it was recently discovered that the phone cracking product used in the case, produced by digital forensics firm Cellebrite, has severe cybersecurity flaws that could make it vulnerable … | Continue reading