The coroner's description of the incident will make you never want to use a metal straw again. | Continue reading
Amazon created package loss data heat maps and performed “data analysis” that helped a police department plan and carry out a package theft sting operation. | Continue reading
Google so far has no answers as to why its massive cloud outage downed everything from Snapchat to 'Rocket League' servers. | Continue reading
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The anxiety about cyberattacks and the perceived need for greater control in the wake of American economic sanctions has led to a loss of internet freedom in Iran. | Continue reading
A new wave of spamming attacks on a core component of PGP’s ecosystem has highlighted a fundamental weakness in the whole ecosystem. | Continue reading
Security researchers found critical vulnerabilities in three different virtual reality applications that would have allowed hackers to take control of victims’ computers. | Continue reading
The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files. | Continue reading
The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files. | Continue reading
The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files. | Continue reading
Google’s internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees, leaked documents, and internal messages reveal a grim reality. | Continue reading
Google’s internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees, leaked documents, and internal messages reveal a grim reality. | Continue reading
In shutting down its ebook store, Microsoft once again shows how in the modern era, you no longer actually own the things you buy. | Continue reading
Behind-the-scenes emails show how Amazon and Ring worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to make people scared of each other. | Continue reading
Ontario-based photographer Alex Lysakowski’s fantastical work explores industrial architecture, structural landscape, and photo manipulation. | Continue reading
Whalers voyaged to locations far beyond established sea lanes, which means their logbooks are filled with rare and valuable weather observations. | Continue reading
"We didn't really need to cheat, because we already had 3.9 GPAs." | Continue reading
A small group of venture capitalists and technologists believe that humans can capture and reverse-engineer UFOs—and that trying to do so might be a good investment. | Continue reading
Somerville, which neighbors Cambridge, Massachusetts, just joined San Francisco in banning the use of facial recognition. | Continue reading
In 2017, two bounty hunters and a fugitive died in a chaotic shoot-out. Shortly after their deaths, someone started tracking one of the bounty hunter's phones. | Continue reading
Ive, Apple's Chief Design Officer, is leaving the company. He leaves a legacy that made its products hard to repair and impossible to upgrade. | Continue reading
It's a symptom of a new trend: There's simply too many streaming services, and too many exclusive shows to subscribe to them all. | Continue reading
With a pirate cell tower, it's easy to send fake emergency alerts warning of a terrorist attack, nuclear bomb, or other disaster. | Continue reading
What does it mean? Where did it come from? And why isn't everyone as obsessed with it as we are? | Continue reading
The $50 DeepNude app dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women’s bodies. | Continue reading
Using the 'Track THIS' tool opens up 100 tabs at a time that will make you seem like a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer. | Continue reading
U.S. counties above 4,000 feet have twice the suicides as counties at 2,000 feet. Is it because there's less oxygen in the air, or is something else going on? | Continue reading
Cops confiscated more than 4000 liters of beer from the Sword and Shield festival in Ostritz, while activists bought out the local supermarkets' stock. | Continue reading
The sprawling plan by the Google affiliate encompasses 77 hectares and asks for new mass transit, changes to regulations, and more. | Continue reading
Several employees were caught abusing the tool, which let them read users’ messages and passwords. | Continue reading
The Transhumanist Party's presidential candidate has a dark vision for an all-powerful religious AI. | Continue reading
Slum tourism might have sparked off a global debate, but it looks like it’s winning the travel game. | Continue reading
I was immediately sent back to the U.K. when immigration officials said they’d found a reference to cocaine on my phone. | Continue reading
Oregon prisons have banned dozens of books about technology and programming, like 'Microsoft Excel 2016 for Dummies,' citing security reasons. The state isn't alone. | Continue reading
Some amount of young people may have tiny bones growing from the base of their skulls. But don’t freak out. | Continue reading
'Fortnite' developer Epic Games told the House of Commons that it does not operate a 'sweatshop where managers are standing behind people with weapons forcing people to work.' | Continue reading
A Redditor went to a recent John Deere conference and got a promotional John Deere USB drive that automatically typed in a URL when connected to a computer. | Continue reading
Global++, creators of the popular ‘PokeGO++’ cheating app, have shut down their websites after ‘Pokémon GO’ creator Niantic sued them. | Continue reading
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans. | Continue reading
You may have noticed that the ratio of Thai restaurants to Thai people in the US is high—and it's no coincidence. | Continue reading
By deforming their beaks, an introduced parasite is causing two finch species to hybridize, changing the course of their evolution. | Continue reading
The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive, for-profit underground society started by a wealthy backer, is a fable for modern Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
Credit scores based on AI and non-traditional data such as your social media profile could usher in a whole new way for banks to discriminate. | Continue reading
“I mean, if you have a racing game and you have a steering wheel...it’s sitting right there, waiting to be steered,” Musk said at E3. | Continue reading
Troy Hunt, the owner and founder of the site, announced that he’s actively looking for a buyer. | Continue reading
A fake video of Mark Zuckerberg giving a sinister speech about the power of Facebook has been posted to Instagram. The company previously said it would not remove this type of video. | Continue reading
Facebook’s Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways, such as searching content for keywords in a particular point in time. | Continue reading