The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thursday continues to pan out. | Continue reading
Some of you all may be familiar with the crime ring of long-tailed macaque monkeys that reside around the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, who were thrust into infamy a few years ago for stealing from tourists and holding the ransom until they were paid in food. As if that visu … | Continue reading
To head off a potential encore of last week’s violent insurrection, Facebook is blocking users from creating new Facebook events in the vicinity of the White House, the U.S. Capitol building, and any state capitol buildings through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. … | Continue reading
A fresh face and Apple Silicon could transform this year's line of iMacs. | Continue reading
Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon restricted access to app this week, reveal its users included police officers around the U.S. and service members stationed on bases. | Continue reading
Your T1 WIFI (YTW), an ISP serving North Idaho and the Spokane, Washington, area, told customers it would block Facebook and Twitter for its customers after the social networks suspended President Trump's accounts following the attack on the Capitol. | Continue reading
DarkMarket, one of the internet’s largest forums for criminal activity, has been seized and the man believed to be its operator has been arrested, European authorities announced Tuesday. | Continue reading
Microsoft-owned GitHub is facing an employee backlash after it reportedly terminated a Jewish worker for warning in a corporate Slack channel that there were “nazis” present at the U.S. Capitol riot. | Continue reading
At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata. | Continue reading
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free … | Continue reading
The inventor behind one of the worst gadgets of all time has joined the motley crew of quasi-experts trying to defend President Donald Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims despite being wildly unqualified to do so. | Continue reading
In its biggest single-day purge, Apple removed 39,000 games from its China store as part of a crackdown on games without a government license in the country. | Continue reading
On Wednesday, Amazon announced that it had a acquired Wondery, the podcast publisher best known for successful serialized shows like “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” “Business Wars,” and “The Shrink Next Door.” | Continue reading
As revealed in a fascinating report by The Times in the United Kingdom, some of the ashes of James Doohan, Star Trek’s original Scotty, now live on board of the International Space Station. They’ve been there since 2008, and until now it’s been a secret. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Lin Qi, the founder of Chinese gaming giant Yoozoo and co-producer of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, checked into a hospital reporting symptoms that led doctors and police to believe that he’d been purposefully poisoned by … | Continue reading
GoDaddy decided that December would be a great time to test whether its employees are staying alert when it comes to cybersecurity threats. At a time when its staff is trying to navigate a holiday season hobbled by a pandemic and an ailing economy, the web hosting giant sent a ph … | Continue reading
Video creators' legal content is being censored by YouTube’s copyright filter. And thanks to a new proposed law by Sen. Thom Tillis, Brewis’ experience could become virtually everyone’s. | Continue reading
Did you see the ad for a butt-flap onesie while reading the Elle article about the ex-Bloomberg reporter who fell for Martin Shkreli? So did everyone else—and now all our data is likely being swapped by shadowy ad tech companies. | Continue reading
Electric car maker Tesla is soaring high, with a $606.9 billion market cap and a stock price that’s up 813% this year. But Elon Musk really wanted to sell the company to Apple back in the days when Tesla was struggling. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple since 2011, wouldn’t even sit dow … | Continue reading
International Monetary Fund (IMF) researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit rating of an individual or business. | Continue reading
Medical residents flooded Stanford Hospital on Friday in protest after executives there reportedly used a faulty algorithm to triage its first wave of vaccinations and overwhelmingly left out caregivers working on the front lines of the covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Facebook has taken out its second round of full-page ads in two days seeking to have Apple... not roll out a privacy update or something. | Continue reading
With an old cartridge, a new FPGA, and a little engineering, one man got ray tracing working on the SNES. | Continue reading
Google officially launched iOS compatibility for Stadia via the Safari browser today. Good news if you are a Stadia and iPhone or iPad user! Just navigate to the Stadia website, log in, and off you go. Stadia’s new compatibility with iOS now puts it in the same league with GeForc … | Continue reading
Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults. | Continue reading
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need a surprising resource. | Continue reading
A Gizmodo investigation has found that schools in the U.S. are purchasing phone surveillance tools from Cellebrite and companies that offer similar tools just four years after the FBI used it to crack a terrorism suspect's iPhone. | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics produces some of the neatest robots you see in videos, but the company's path to profitability continues to be hidden. | Continue reading
On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced his administration’s transition team, including the list of agency review team members that will help his White House “hit the ground running on Day One.” It also, by all indications, includes a deeper bench of big tech figures than … | Continue reading
Another day, another blow to beleaguered theater chains. | Continue reading
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of miles away and over 40 years old, but they’re still making significant discoveries. | Continue reading
French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers. The solution so far has just been to learn to adapt, but researchers led by Aalto … | Continue reading
Alan Dean Foster, who ghostwrote the first novelization of the original Star Wars and kickstarted the Expanded Universe with "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" has accused Disney of reneging on contracts by refusing to pay him royalties. | Continue reading
The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack informs both our fiction and is how many people understand wolf behavior. But the alpha wolf doe … | Continue reading
The Detroit, Michigan-based animation studio Hobbes teamed up with Firefly Drone Shows to produce the latest music video from VWLS, “High in Heaven,” which is performed and shot entirely by a fleet of 200 remote-controlled flying devices. | Continue reading
The company's newest feature is facing heavy criticism for allowing bosses to track how their employees use Microsoft's suite of tools, such as how frequently they send emails, collaborate in shared documents, or have their camera on during virtual meetings. | Continue reading
Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the openings of devices used to measure airspeed. A recent investigation shows the problem is worse than we realized. | Continue reading
Have you heard of Amazon Sidewalk? Probably not. But there is a good chance that you or someone you know has an Amazon Echo or Ring camera. And if you own one of those devices and live in the U.S. (or know someone who does), you need to tell them to opt-out of the service as soon … | Continue reading
When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and have your venal misdeeds replayed over and over in Netflix documentaries and prestige podcasts, but you might also get away with it. When you’re a scientist—workin … | Continue reading
At $250 you’ve really got to be dedicated to the idea of minimalist computing to really get behind the product, but as a dedicated coding, writing, or sysadmin computer it could be very cool. | Continue reading
The B-side of Chris Sievey's 1983 single "Camouflage" sounds like an unlistenable malestrom of noise. It's not an avant-garde song; it's a program for the ZX-81 computer, and if you could load it correctly, it gave you a (very rudimentary) computer-animated … | Continue reading
The iPhone 12 Mini coulda been a contender, but a tiny battery does more harm than good. | Continue reading
In case you want to wear Alexa on your face. | Continue reading
Asked by Prosecutor Håkan Roswall about when was the the first time he met someone IRL (In Real Life), Pirate Bay co-founder's Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi said he didn't like IRL but AFK (Away From Keyboard) because he "thinks the Internet's real." | Continue reading
Even after being demoed multiple times, the rollable Oppo X 2021 concept phone seems so advanced that it's still hard to believe it's real. | Continue reading
This is it—the largest Lego set ever. Figures not included. | Continue reading
I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the grocery store without inadvertently surrendering 40 or 50 highly personal data-points on the walk over. Go ahead, delete your Facebook—it makes no difference. It wouldn’ … | Continue reading
MIT researchers have developed an AI that uses neural networks to determine if you have covid-19, even if you aren't exhibiting any symptoms. It's all in the cough, which has subtle differences among covid-19 patients that aren't discernible to the human ear. | Continue reading