“It looks like the majority of these organisms are living at energy regimes that are below what we thought was even capable of maintenance—just staying alive.” | Continue reading
Health Minister Patty Hajdu has granted four people with terminal cancer access to psilocybin mushrooms through an exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. | Continue reading
“There are those that say, ‘You can test too much,’ you know that?” | Continue reading
Academic Twitter users made friends with the nonexistent professor, mourned her death, and then discovered they had been catfished. | Continue reading
Flywheel bikes, a victim of the internet of broken things, are slowly being unbricked thanks to a Raspberry Pi and an open-source program. | Continue reading
A day after a congressional antitrust hearing, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook reported a combined $28.6 billion in profit this quarter. | Continue reading
“In an open letter released on Thursday, dozens of academics proposed a set of principles to stop companies from influencing research with proprietary data and influence. | Continue reading
The pandemic has led to explosive growth for the QAnon conspiracy, not just in the U.S., but internationally. | Continue reading
The Pantanal in Brazil is a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its unique biodiversity. Now, it's burning. | Continue reading
On Tuesday, the senator sent letters to the CEOs of five of the country’s largest employers demanding information about their respective attendance policies. | Continue reading
The citizen scientists, associated with Harvard University, have been testing the vaccine on themselves. | Continue reading
"My parents, who have a Gmail account, aren’t getting my campaign emails," Rep. Greg Steube told Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Continue reading
‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’ players briefly got rid of all nuclear weapons and triggered a secret cutscene. | Continue reading
The Milky Way tore apart a collection of extremely old stars two billion years ago, and scientists have found the grizzly remains. | Continue reading
The CEOs talked a lot about America and its possibilities, but it is undeniable that their actions are undermining what they claim to celebrate. | Continue reading
The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously. | Continue reading
"If I can’t make it to the post office,” one local union rep for postal workers said, “I’m not going to use the post office.” | Continue reading
Deforestation and rampant resource use is likely to trigger the 'irreversible collapse' of human civilization unless we rapidly change course. | Continue reading
Tabloids and UFO enthusiasts have had a field day speculating about the strange photo, but the answer lies in the difficulty of sending data from space. | Continue reading
It’s not so much what the current Postmaster General is doing as much as what the federal government has not done. | Continue reading
A leading antitrust crusader revealed she was getting paid by companies facing antitrust scrutiny by federal and state authorities, as well as her own antitrust research project. | Continue reading
In preparation for an age of biometric data megabreaches, I covered my real fingerprints with replaceable, fully-functional fake ones that are nearly impossible to copy. | Continue reading
Scientists have warned of a new 'candidate pandemic virus' emerging in pigs in China. We asked an expert about the possibilities and risks of a pandemic-within-a-pandemic. | Continue reading
Kibbo has a dream that one day you will rent everything from them. | Continue reading
On behalf of millions of workers, the unions are calling on the FTC to investigate the company’s dominance over workers and markets. | Continue reading
Maxwell allegedly believed it would help her avoid surveillance. | Continue reading
In an email sent to victims of the massive hack, Twitter apologizes, informs them of what happened, and suggests a series of actions to keep their accounts safe. | Continue reading
'Ban trolls:' The U.S. Navy is using Twitch to recruit Sailors, here’s the handbook that shows how. | Continue reading
Next month, scientists will enter “Green Banana,” a 425-foot-deep sinkhole in the Floridian seafloor that may contain hidden secrets, including novel microbial life. | Continue reading
Uber’s power lies In information asymmetry. This EU court case could help end it. | Continue reading
Songs written by 'Weird A.I. Yancovic' are getting flagged for violating copyright. Its creator says they should be protected by Fair Use. | Continue reading
The lack of identification makes it nearly impossible to hold them accountable. | Continue reading
Apple officially launched the iPhone Research Device Program, and will send iPhone hackers and security researchers special devices that will make it easier for them to find bugs and vulnerabilities. | Continue reading
Car companies think Americans only like driving big cars, but that’s because they don’t bring the good small cars here to begin with. | Continue reading
Paracelsus Recovery is the most exclusive rehab in the world, attracting A-listers, royalty, and people worth more money than entire countries. | Continue reading
A new international study identifies 37 volcanic hotspots, or coronae, which scientists say are currently erupting with lava flows. | Continue reading
Last week’s Twitter hack revealed how vulnerable social media has made the world. | Continue reading
And it's using Github's own cat mascot to do it. | Continue reading
You might not realize it, but every part of a color-bar layout, the most common television test pattern out there, has a specific purpose. Here’s how it came to be. | Continue reading
The move by CBP continues the trend of law enforcement buying access to data rather than gathering it themselves. | Continue reading
Twitter was previously exploring end-to-end encrypted direct messages, which would generally give user's more privacy around their communications. | Continue reading
Surveillance footage shows Fahim Saleh being followed by a man wearing a suit, gloves, a hat, and a mask over his face. | Continue reading
The Wi-Fi Pineapple enables anyone to steal data on public Wi-Fi networks. Here’s how it facilitates two sophisticated network attacks and how to protect yourself against them. | Continue reading
After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground. | Continue reading
J. told me he was thinking of carving out some candles, putting pills inside them, and mailing them to Chicago. I had a better idea: I’d fly them out in my wheelchair, because airport security never searched it. | Continue reading
The Guardian and El Pais reported NSO Group's malware was used to target prominent politicians in Spain. Now a former employee says that Spain has been an NSO Group customer. | Continue reading
NASA wants to explore Mars, but a new agency directive shows that avoiding “extraterrestrial life and bioactive molecules” hitching a ride back to Earth is a top priority. | Continue reading