It's really simple: "(Web 2), (Web 3) -> (Web 5)" | Continue reading
Two CEOs on a podcast casually proposed a shareable database of worker performance that would follow them between companies, forever, and encouraged listeners to create one. HR professionals say it's a terrible idea. | Continue reading
Last year, Amazon rolled out a metric that allows it to punish or terminate delivery contractors if they fail to meet route targets. | Continue reading
Dogecoin inventor Jackson Palmer sits down to explain why everything online right now feels like someone is trying to get one over on you. | Continue reading
The discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) that is only the second of its kind was “a big surprise” said one scientist. | Continue reading
With promises to pay people to walk, a group of new startups ask you to trust that they aren't unsustainable pyramid schemes. “Everything is a Ponzi when you’re on the sidelines,” one happy user said. | Continue reading
After 24 hours, the nine bots running on 4chan had posted 15,000 times. | Continue reading
The career of the country’s “Lipstick King” is in jeopardy after he accidentally touched on Beijing’s taboo in his livestream. | Continue reading
As hackers keep targeting crypto and Web3 projects, white hat hackers are striking back. | Continue reading
The ethnic group celebrates divorces as hard as they do weddings. | Continue reading
After deadly shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, the police tech company is unveiling its most dystopian project yet. | Continue reading
With dozens of films and TV spin-offs now under its belt, the MCU isn't cinema. It's content. | Continue reading
It can feel as if the entire world is bolting on crypto tokens and NFTs. Many in the industry worry the gold rush is akin to a “collective Theranos” that is warping the economy to the benefit of professional investors. | Continue reading
To get bumble bees protections from agricultural practices, judges determined that bees could actually be considered fish. | Continue reading
Jared Wilson’s struggle to keep his John Deere tractors running highlights the stranglehold the company has on the people who produce America’s food. | Continue reading
Researchers suspect the checkm8.info service is used by criminals to launder stolen iPhones. The tool's administrator claims the service is just a response to Apple's poor right to repair policies. | Continue reading
Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects. | Continue reading
San José created a privacy taskforce to keep ‘smart city’ technology in check. Then its members started resigning. | Continue reading
Alleged “ghost agencies” advertise their privileged access to the “Facebook Media Partner Portal” for sale to scammers. | Continue reading
DALL-E can generate images from a few key words—with predictably racist and sexist results. | Continue reading
Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. | Continue reading
As it turns out, businesses fundamentally reliant on venture capital subsidies to offer cheap cab rides are not great long-term investments. | Continue reading
The scammer “hacked a father of three children under 6-years-old and a wife, and took all their hard earned money for the past 38 years accrued in a few minutes," the victim said. | Continue reading
The California town was almost totally destroyed in a 2018 wildfire in which 85 people died. Now, as the rebuilding process continues, its housing prices are rising faster than anyone predicted. | Continue reading
Texas law enforcement officials are being strangely opaque about what actually happened during the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. | Continue reading
Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture, even though we don't have a good understanding of how they interact with us or each other. | Continue reading
The data includes images of thousands of Uighur detainees, police presentations, and images of training exercises. | Continue reading
The e-bike is ideal for moving snipers and anti-tank weapons quickly and quietly around the battlefield. | Continue reading
Before delivering a med school commencement address, Dr. Dexter Holland explained his HIV research and the scientific origin of “Come Out and Play” | Continue reading
The new policy addresses decades of uncertainty around the law and security research. | Continue reading
Nuclear energy might help us fight climate change, but questions about its safety and startup costs still linger. | Continue reading
The Midwest is at "high risk of energy emergencies" and Texas and the West could see outages and shortfalls amid high heat and drought. | Continue reading
We’ve spent years entertaining the delusion that food delivery companies can work. Why are we still pretending? | Continue reading
With abortion rights in peril, pregnant people are likely to only become more vulnerable. | Continue reading
Even today, retro-computing is carrying humanity to the edge of interstellar space. | Continue reading
“Autonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads,” an internal training document states. | Continue reading
There's a flavour of fraud for everyone, whether you're an Instagram hacker, a Depop grifter or a fake deliveryman. | Continue reading
Bitcoin has shed more than half its value and a multi-billion-dollar "stablecoin" has imploded, but investors aren't buying that crypto is dead. | Continue reading
More and different kinds of people can now aspire to TV’s most important job—but streaming and COVID have set them up to fail. | Continue reading
A long time ago, an interface far, far away. | Continue reading
The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings. | Continue reading
Placer.ai allowed anyone to freely create an account and start using its visualized data to see where visitors to Planned Parenthood facilities approximately live. | Continue reading
DIY medicine collectives are preparing for the horrifying prospect that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. | Continue reading
Squatters say more people are joining them. | Continue reading
Dan O’Dowd won’t talk about housing, inflation, or COVID-19—just Tesla and “cyber Armageddon.” | Continue reading
Machine guns, hand grenades and hunting rifles have all been found by the magnet fishers who trawl Britain's waterways for fun. | Continue reading
the original Roe v Wade ruling was leaked too, published in Time hours before it was announced # | Continue reading
Scientists modified an enzyme that can break down plastic in one week to create fresh material for new products. | Continue reading