Yvette Clarke, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley plan to propose a federal law banning the technology this week, citing concerns over privacy and bias. | Continue reading
The first-ever collision between artificial satellites changed how the world looked at space. Now, low-Earth orbit is about to get a lot more crowded. | Continue reading
Warning: Heartbreak within. | Continue reading
You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show. | Continue reading
Apple says that Google oversold the nature of the hack and that it quickly fixed the vulnerability. | Continue reading
In areas where abortion access is under threat, misleading or wrong results are common, a VICE News analysis found. | Continue reading
It's like going off a drug. | Continue reading
The heist is just a preview of how unprepared we are for AI-powered cybercrime. | Continue reading
A study measured the 'Need for Chaos' that leads people to spread online misinformation and vote for politicians like Trump. | Continue reading
After several high profile attacks and embarrassing slip-ups, Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack. | Continue reading
If America is attacked with a nuclear bomb, artificial intelligence would automatically fire back even if we are all dead. | Continue reading
Amazon is levying taxes on French businesses after France approved a tax on the tech giant. | Continue reading
Some of Mario Maker's biggest fans love to break the game, thinking they're making new tools. Nintendo wants to ban them. | Continue reading
After several high profile attacks and embarrassing slip-ups, Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack. | Continue reading
What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? | Continue reading
But economic justice groups in the UK are campaigning hard to fix a broken system. | Continue reading
YouTube wants to put the responsibility on content creators to turn off ads for kids under 13. | Continue reading
A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians. | Continue reading
The British Army of the 1980s was willing to control riots by shooting people. | Continue reading
The geological formation outside Melbourne is famous for the fictional disappearance of a school group. But it's also the site of a very real mass disappearance. | Continue reading
A wearable that measures your drunkenness sounds embarrassing, but so does finding out the hard way (puking on the street). | Continue reading
Part of Google’s “shadow work force” is unionizing in Philadelphia. | Continue reading
The EFF and Mozilla published an open letter today urging Venmo parent company PayPal to fix the app's privacy holes. | Continue reading
It may be the biggest attack against iPhone users yet. | Continue reading
The miniature atomic clock is a big step toward self-driving deep space probes. | Continue reading
As smart speaker makers such as Amazon improve emotion-detecting AI, researchers are coming up with ways to protect our privacy. | Continue reading
Police in France took down a large cryptocurrency-mining malware operation with the help of a cybersecurity firm. | Continue reading
It's the latest tactic the wealthy use to game the system. | Continue reading
Exclusive: According to a new survey of people aged 13-34, members of "Generation Z" find the gender binary much less on fleek than millennials. | Continue reading
If you train a machine learning tool to find human features in emojis, the results are not pretty. | Continue reading
What had started out as an innocent meme mocking the 2017 struggle for independence in Catalonia ended up deeply dividing Spain. | Continue reading
Valve says banning him was a mistake, but he made the bug public anyway. | Continue reading
EternalBlue and NotPetya through the eyes of influence. | Continue reading
The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones. | Continue reading
Fiverr removed a number of listings after Motherboard approached the company for comment. | Continue reading
It will be impossible to play 'Ancestors' and not come away with an opinion on what it’s trying. | Continue reading
Apple expanded the scope of its bug bounty, increased payouts, and promised special devices to a select group of researchers. For jailbreakers and hackers, there’s never been a better time to pwn the iPhone. | Continue reading
Cycads used to grow in the UK during the age of the dinosaurs. Warming temperatures are helping them return. | Continue reading
The growing demand for meat around the world is directly linked to the Amazon fires. | Continue reading
Cisco Talos researchers report finding eight security vulnerabilities in the Nest Cam IQ that can allow attackers to take over the camera, prevent its use or allow code execution. | Continue reading
In response to a need to enforce short term rental legislation, an industry of companies has popped up tasked with finding the real addresses of Airbnbs and other properties. | Continue reading
You can play reconstructions of ancient board games thanks to these scientists and their algorithms. | Continue reading
Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles. | Continue reading
Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim. | Continue reading
Two of the main browser makers announced they would block the Kazakhstan government’s root certificate, which was designed to spy on citizens’ internet usage. | Continue reading
The new arrivals bring the total wolf population of Isle Royale National Park to eight. | Continue reading
Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at "Skeleton Lake" in the Himalayas according to a new study, making the creepy location even more mysterious. | Continue reading
The Amazon has been burning for weeks amid increasing deforestation. The intense smoke was detected by NASA and plunged São Paulo into darkness on Monday. | Continue reading