Proxima Centauri—the nearest star to our own—has produced one of the most powerful flares on record. The observation is potential evidence that red dwarfs, though plentiful, are inhospitable to life. | Continue reading
Fraudsters operate off the assumption that it’s way more profitable to think up byzantine ways to cheat people out of money than it is to just, like, work hard and ask for a promotion occasionally. For instance: an Israeli tech company is currently accused of using a very convolu … | Continue reading
Israeli digital intelligence firm Cellebrite sells software designed to unlock phones and extract their data. As a result, its products are a favorite of law enforcement agencies across the U.S., and police frequently use them to gather evidence from seized devices. In the past, … | Continue reading
Whole Foods will launch a palm reader payment system at its Madison Broadway location in Seattle today and has plans to roll out the biometric program at seven more stores in the coming months, according to an announcement early Wednesday. | Continue reading
In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households wit … | Continue reading
Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew a Predator drone over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there. The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Fo … | Continue reading
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of the leading software company Adobe who invented PDFs, died Friday at age 81, the company said in a statement. | Continue reading
Domino’s, the eager company that’s always looking for new ways to get you its pizza, is at it again. To ensure that you are not without its pizza, the company has dispatched a delivery robot at one of its stores that it says will take the pizza right to customers. | Continue reading
With the help of the Internet Archive—and a little bit of code—we set up a script to auto-archive as many of the roughly 84 million submitted questions that we were able to find using the “sitemap” file for the Yahoo Answers site. | Continue reading
If, for any number of reasons, you’d like to burn telecoms to the ground and build a new internet service provider on their smoldering remains, good news for you. New York City Spectrum workers, who’ve weathered an anguishing four-year strike, have built their own internet servic … | Continue reading
An iOS a game called Jungle Run—basically a 2D coin running game —that turns into a cryptocurrency-funded casino in Turkey. | Continue reading
Reporting on the tech privacy space has taught me that it's smart to be selective with the extensions I use since they’ve historically done a bad job at protecting they collect from our browswers. But 24 (okay, actually 28) wasn’t that many. Right? | Continue reading
When the U.S. government wanted to crack into a dead terrorist’s iPhone several years ago, they turned to a little-known cybersecurity startup in Australia, Azimuth Security, to help them do it. | Continue reading
Doctors in Canada are puzzled over a cluster of people coming down with a dementia-like brain disorder with no known diagnosis. Over the past half-decade, dozens of residents in New Brunswick are thought to have developed the condition, which includes symptoms such as memory loss … | Continue reading
Microsoft is an outlier among the companies investing in quantum computing research. Unlike Google, IBM, or the handful of startups that have built noisy experimental prototypes out of superconducting circuits, ions, or photons, the company is trying to build a quantum computer b … | Continue reading
New research is the latest to find evidence of a link between mental illness and infections caused by a group of bacteria commonly found in cats and other animals. The small study found that people with diagnosed schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder were more likely to carr … | Continue reading
A new nova, appearing in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, can be seen with binoculars and small telescopes, but this transient object won’t stick around for long. Here’s how you can spot Nova V1405 Cas before it’s too late. | Continue reading
How does Clubhouse plan to survive if its VC funding spigots are shut off? Can it sustain the hype? | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump is planning to return to social media with “his own platform,” his advisor said Sunday. And none of those fake news meanies will be invited. Neener neener neener. | Continue reading
On March 22nd both William Shatner and Captain James Tiberius Kirk celebrate their birthday—so to mark the occasion we look back at 10 classic episodes of Star Trek that all speak to different facets of the iconic Captain of the starship Enterprise. | Continue reading
Researchers at NIST analyzed cloth face masks using a scanning electron microscope. The results are out of this world. | Continue reading
The future of grocery shopping is a little over the top. | Continue reading
Modern warehouses are a hive of frenetic activity as robots and humans move boxes around as quickly as possible. To shave a few precious seconds off a delivery, researchers in Germany have developed a high-speed robotic drone that unloads packages by deliberately crashing into a … | Continue reading
This tire will never to be inflated or spring a leak, and will probably survive a lot longer than the bike itself. | Continue reading
A document obtained by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden shows Ulysses claims to be able to “remotely geolocate” cars in “nearly any country,” with the exceptions of Cuba and North Korea. | Continue reading
In a statement released today, Circut promised existing users unlimited lifetime use of their machines. The policy extends to anyone else who decides to buy one of the machines throughout 2021. | Continue reading
SoloKey 2 is an affordable alternative to expensive security keys. | Continue reading
Why not? | Continue reading
Users are, unsurprisingly, very unhappy. | Continue reading
Banning deceptive advertising tactics is another step towards ensuring that consumers are protected under the CCPA. | Continue reading
Weighing 2.9 tons and traveling 4.8 miles per second, this heap of old batteries is now the heaviest single piece of garbage to be jettisoned from the International Space Station. | Continue reading
At least 10 different hacker groups are targeting Microsoft Exchange servers, which seems bad. | Continue reading
The company is undergoing a “reorganization” to get rid of its debt, but current Shadow subscribers can still use the service. | Continue reading
Heads up, fellow T-Mobile customers: You might want to take a look at your mobile carrier’s privacy policy. It now explains that you'll be automatically enrolled in data collection for targeted ads—unless you opt out. | Continue reading
Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t your average gastropods. First off, they’re members of sacoglossa, a clade of slugs known for taking the algae from marine plants and integrating the chloroplasts … | Continue reading
Road closure notifications continuously played on loop like some sort of post-apocalyptical movie scene. | Continue reading
In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been breached by a hacker earlier this week. | Continue reading
Bad news, Spotify users. | Continue reading
Etsy, eBay, and Amazon sellers are turning a profit on products that claim to protect you from 5G. | Continue reading
Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn’t stopped creative developers from turning Macs into unique gaming machines, like putting Lemmings on the Touch Bar, and now putting an icon-sized playable version of Pong in the do … | Continue reading
Some former moderators of memestock trading floor WallStreetBets intend to start a competing community which will act like a “decentralized hedge fund.” What could go wrong. | Continue reading
“They’re going to go through some stages until they come out on the other side.” | Continue reading
It's not about processing speed, but reliability. | Continue reading
The SolarWinds drama just won’t stop. It’s a tale of Russian hackers—and potentially Chinese hackers—alleged email spying, and a gaping hole of security vulnerabilities that seems to get worse as more details come to light. Now, we can add yet another twist to the story: the laug … | Continue reading
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded … | Continue reading
Oh, sure. This will definitely work as planned. | Continue reading
Apple has bought out just short of 100 small businesses over the last six years as part of its corporate acquisition spree, CEO Tim Cook told shareholders at a virtual meeting on Tuesday. | Continue reading
Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of Neanderthals and modern humans. | Continue reading