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Users of Facebook, Google and other popular technology platforms are likely to benefit from stricter privacy regulations that, beginning next month, will require new disclosures, new forms of consent and…
They had been lost – presumed dead, or even worse – for unimaginable lifetimes, be it weeks, months, or years. But for thousands of children who vanished in the streets,…
Drop everything. The fantasy car / robot / pal you’ve dreamed about since childhood is real, and it’s sitting under lock-down in a Japanese warehouse. J-deite RIDE is a working,…
Sometimes you really just need to sit back, relax, and watch the world go by. Those times should never be when you’re the only person travelling in an automobile cruising…
Forget the trial and error – mathematics has proved where the best spot to place your router is. Physicist Jason Cole has figured out a formula that can work out…
Two days ago, an open letter to China’s Peking University was anonymously uploaded to the Ethereum blockchain, effectively sharing it with anyone who trades or tracks the cryptocurrency. In it,…
The “Golden State Killer” was meticulous at his crime scenes over the course of a decade and in several cities, leaving scant evidence for police. There were no fingerprints. Few…
“the sun is a beautiful thing in silence is drawn between the trees only the beginning of light” Was that poem written by an angsty middle schooler or an artificially…
Forget using healing brushes or copying and patching scraps of images with Adobe Photoshop – a revolutionary new AI program might soon let you seamlessly reconstruct entire missing sections of…
A Russian startup has created a new way to help companies connect with job-seekers and interview them. Her name is Vera, and she’s able to interview as many as 1,500…
Blockchain technology has taken the world by storm in recent years as a way to anonymously record transactions between individuals. As safe is it is currently, it’s only a matter…
Your computer keyboard is probably dirtier than a toilet seat. In fact, an Australian study found that the typical desk has 400 times the amount of bacteria found on a…
Today, Microsoft is trying to keep up with other tech giants, but sixteen years ago, the company was regarded as a leader in technology. In 1999, Microsoft released a video…
An unexpectedly heavy cardboard box, filled with flat-packed formations. Seemingly superfluous pieces of particle board. A madness-inducing number of screws, nails, and washers, plus the lingering fear that one might…
The US and British governments on Monday accused Russia of conducting a massive campaign to compromise computer routers and firewalls around the world – from home offices to Internet providers…
Everyone had died – not that you’d know it, from how they were laughing about their poor choices and bad rolls of the dice. As a social anthropologist, I study…
The United States, Britain, and France, conducted “precision strikes” on Syria on Friday, in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack that reportedly killed dozens in the rebel-held town of…