It’s not hard to become an EDM DJ. All it takes is a bit of practice, a few contacts and, above all, good marketing. That doesn’t make you a musician. | Continue reading
As if you didn't know it already, there's now yet another psych study detailing the addictive qualities of Facebook. Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently enlisted 205 Germans and monitored them for an entire week... | Continue reading
Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin formally entered European politics recently, and it's already dealing out consequences. | Continue reading
Hackers are trying a novel approach to extort developers of some money. | Continue reading
Work spaces today come with strong smells, harsh light, lots of chatter, and constant messages on email or Slack. For neurodivergent people, this can be a big ask. | Continue reading
Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. | Continue reading
A look inside the secretive financial ties between gun manufacturers and the people behind airsoft guns that cops mistake for lethal threats. | Continue reading
"We kept the faith. We just kept believing in it." | Continue reading
"We know of no other example in rails, or of birds in general, that demonstrates this phenomenon so evidently.” | Continue reading
A quirk in Google’s search algorithm turned me into Facebook’s customer support. | Continue reading
At a recent international standards meeting, experts said they weren’t convinced by a Russian explanation about a potentially flawed new encryption algorithm. | Continue reading
She led hundreds of real people on secret missions for a make-believe cause. | Continue reading
The intelligence agency is stoked about its new Onion site on the dark web: "Our onion site is one of several ways individuals can contact the CIA." | Continue reading
Many players think the XIM Apex is an undetectable cheating device that's ruining video games. For some people with motor disabilities, it's the only way they can play. | Continue reading
Suspect Technologies tried to convince police to hand over a database of driver license photos, and pitched a product that would scan for people of a certain ethnicity. | Continue reading
Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. | Continue reading
The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data. | Continue reading
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to "unlock iCloud" from iPhones. | Continue reading
'League of Legends' developers walkout to protest the company’s use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits. | Continue reading
Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Lay people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. | Continue reading
The bill would have been the first in North America to empower average people to repair their own devices. | Continue reading
After more than a century, it looks like city officials are finally going to change it. | Continue reading
"Car parking squanders space that can be used for the public good." | Continue reading
"He must've been trained for this." | Continue reading
He's facing up to 20 years in prison for hiring someone to put a gun to a man's head and demand his domain name. | Continue reading
Screen-reading software allows visually impaired people to use the internet, but it hits a wall when it comes to memes. | Continue reading
Dream Market is due to close on the 30th of April, under mysterious circumstances. Is the game up for the big online drug bazaars? | Continue reading
Under mysterious circumstances, Dream Market is due to close at the end of April. Is the game up for the big online drug bazaars? | Continue reading
Embezzlement and selling drugs near a school are among the offenses some states classify as "violent." | Continue reading
PreShow uses facial-recognition tech to constantly monitor you during 20 minutes of advertising—and if you look away, it pauses automatically. | Continue reading
Ross Ulbricht is serving a life sentence for creating the world's first online drug marketplace. We spoke to his mom Lyn about their journey. | Continue reading
Once able to earn $100 an hour farming endless jackpots, times have changed for this dying breed of gamer. | Continue reading
With a $4 billion valuation, you'd think the company could afford the music it's profiting off. | Continue reading
We spoke to kids and parents about the benefits and challenges of a gender-neutral upbringing. | Continue reading
Becoming a planet owner is a lot easier than you might think. All you have to do is take a quick glance at an astronomical map, pick out whichever planet or moon tickles your fancy, tell everyone you own it, and you're set. | Continue reading
After wildfires bankrupted a major utility, there's concerns that more severe natural disasters will lead to economic devastation. | Continue reading
There's urban exploring, and then there's the primordial obsession with going way below the Earth's surface. | Continue reading
I've come to believe that my grandmother literally poisoned those around her. | Continue reading
'BoJack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg told us BoJack could still bottom out. He's not sure yet. | Continue reading
Stop passing laws that require schools to teach cursive. | Continue reading
Higher rent. More tech bros. And a massive monopoly beloved by the people who run things getting a ton of tax breaks. Can it be stopped? | Continue reading
Let's game this out a bit. | Continue reading
In a new book, a professor argues that empathy can fuel prejudice, tribalism, and violence. He says it also assisted Donald Trump's rise. | Continue reading
While there's not an open debate about the existence of romantic love, I'd love to moderate one. Bill Nye would be on one side, vivisecting love. On the other side would be Zach Braff and Oprah. | Continue reading
The Mundaneum is more than an antiquated indexing system. It's an ahead-of-its-time testament to the power of information. | Continue reading
They say "mutual aid" is a better model for providing aid than traditional top-down charity work. | Continue reading
RAADfest is the go-to science conference for immortalists of all stripes. | Continue reading
We live our lives increasingly locked into screen time, distanced from nature and each other by modern capitalism and divisive politics. It’s no surprise that illegal use of psychedelics is on the rise. | Continue reading