Amsterdam and Rotterdam have banned the “dark stores” while four other cities look to institute similar measures. | Continue reading
But campaigners say hours should be reduced, not compressed into fewer days. | Continue reading
Quantum computing can help probe the bizarre innards of black holes, an environment that defies standard physics. | Continue reading
Police, surveillance tech companies, and government contractors gathered to joke about law enforcement robots in locker rooms and talk about getting close to senior police officers by giving them hunting holidays. | Continue reading
The tech companies expressed internet is using Clearview AI's technology for identity verification, according to Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That. | Continue reading
mtgDAO wants to mint Magic: The Gathering cards into NFTs. Wizards of the Coast may have some issues with that. | Continue reading
GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night. | Continue reading
Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean. | Continue reading
Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. | Continue reading
The new service is launching this summer with a web3 style wallet where users watch ads to earn credits for movies. | Continue reading
Suzanne Ramsay and Michele Cirasuolo, scientists with the Extremely Large Telescope, talk about the observatory’s unprecedented abilities on Motherboard’s Space Show. | Continue reading
Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous. Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are. | Continue reading
The crypto used to purchase the former first lady’s NFT came from the NFT creator themselves, blockchain records reveal. But why? | Continue reading
The report highlights how little is known about the cost of Amazon’s expansion to taxpayers around the planet. | Continue reading
For two decades, the U.S. Army used a video game to reach new recruits. It’s finally shutting it down. | Continue reading
An email obtained by Motherboard says that the audience for a demo of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware included "NYPD intel." | Continue reading
Knowing what shape rotators and wordcels are will make you significantly dumber, but if you simply must, read on. | Continue reading
Twenty-nine years ago, the FBI raided one of the biggest bulletin board systems (BBS) of the 1990s. Somehow, it wasn’t because of all the porn they hosted. | Continue reading
Top marketplaces facilitate epic amounts of theft and wash trading, scams are rampant, and the cringe is unbearable. Can it last? | Continue reading
Bitcoin miners in energy-rich Texas are seizing the moment to make good on their promises of helping the power grid during Winter Storm Landon. | Continue reading
Josephine had almost given up trying to help her mother leave the QAnon cult. Then she discovered Wordle. | Continue reading
Someone stole $320 million in crypto from the cross-chain Wormhole platform in one of the largest hacks in crypto history. | Continue reading
TikTok users leave a note for their delivery drivers asking that they dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers. | Continue reading
They are safe, sensible, affordable, and an environmentally friendly transportation option for short trips in cities or suburban sprawl. | Continue reading
“Within 60 seconds of joining—I was verbally and sexually harassed.” | Continue reading
Elsevier embeds a unique code in every academic journal article users download. Security researchers fear this could be used to identify people who share PDFs. | Continue reading
Anti-vax truckers are blockading a border entry point between Alberta and Montana. They're disrupting locals and "don't reflect" most truckers. | Continue reading
You can preserve the original, blessedly free, Wordle and play it for about 7 more years. | Continue reading
The Great Unconformity has baffled geologists for a century. New research points to glaciers being the culprit. | Continue reading
After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam. | Continue reading
Synthetic dimensions provide a way to mimic higher dimensions within the confines of four-dimensional spacetime. | Continue reading
The co-founder of DeFi protocol Wonderland was revealed to be a convicted fraudster who previously co-founded the notorious QuadrigaCX exchange. | Continue reading
One anonymous finance professional has been tracking the worrying number of get-rich-quick schemes on the platform. "It's getting really bad," he says. | Continue reading
The NFT shows how viewers of NFTs on marketplaces like OpenSea may unexpectedly expose their data. | Continue reading
The UVB-76 numbers station took a break from being a suspected communications tool of Russian intelligence to blast 'Gangnam Style' | Continue reading
While not a substitute for vaccines, "CBD has the potential to prevent infections, such as breakthrough infections," the study's lead author said. | Continue reading
Replika users say that it's all too easy to form a meaningful – even romantic – attachment to your AI friend. | Continue reading
A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. | Continue reading
The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, introduced by Reps. Anna G. Eshoo of California and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, aims to do exactly that. | Continue reading
“The problem with budget bikes is everything. They’re literally built to fail.” | Continue reading
Hackers tricked an investor into giving away their valuable NFTs, he claimed on Twitter, and tried convincing the rest of the internet not to buy them. | Continue reading
The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come. | Continue reading
The “light truck” loophole for pickups and SUVs that allow them to pollute more than other cars. | Continue reading
After she reported sexual harassment, Ashley Kosak was told such claims were “too private to openly discuss with the perpetrators,” she says. | Continue reading
The Wachowskis' masterpiece steered countless people into cybersecurity, and changed hacking culture forever. | Continue reading
Yes, you can beat Sim City. Yes, you've got to be really intense to do it. | Continue reading
“It's hard to explain, but there is something meaningful about getting together with people who willingly choose to do nothing.” | Continue reading