Hacker steals sensitive infrastructure data from U.S. military

The corrupted database contains comprehensive information about 79,000 dams across the country

, GlobalPost Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:34 PM UTC
GlobalPost

Text messaging down across the U.S.

Internet-based applications are starting to eat into phone companies' profit margins

Associated Press Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:21 PM UTC
Associated Press

Dutch police may get right to hack into computers

Under new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files

Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:23 PM UTC
Hacking, Holland, Spying

America hates science

A student scientist is arrested for experimenting with Drano. No wonder we're falling behind the rest of the world

, Scientific American Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:04 PM UTC 54
Scientific American

Google Earth as art

In his latest installation, Jeroen Nelemans views a suburban home through the lens of virtual technology

, Hyperallergic Thursday, May 2, 2013 6:56 PM UTC
Hyperallergic, Google

Police, politicians push for increased surveillance post-Boston

Measures include giving law enforcement officials access to cameras used to monitor traffic

, Associated Press Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:06 AM UTC
Associated Press, Philadelphia

Media companies reap benefits of higher network fees

Time Warner Inc., Viacom Inc. and Comcast Corp. all saw growth in their cable network businesses this quarter

, Associated Press Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:27 PM UTC
Associated Press

Facebook is blowing it

Mark Zuckerberg won't let me turn off the spammy online dating ads on my smartphone. It's a big mistake

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:24 PM UTC 43
Facebook, Advertising

IBM makes world’s tiniest movie

"A Boy and His Atom" shows carbon monoxide molecules rearranged in the form of a boy bouncing on a trampoline VIDEO

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:45 PM UTC
Video, Associated Press, IBM, Atom

Twitter vs. the New York Times: Who wins?

Megabucks libertarian Peter Thiel touts the social media network. But don't count newspapers out

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:39 PM UTC
Twitter, New York Times

Apple selling record amount in bonds

The computer company is making its first debt issue since the 1990s

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 10:04 PM UTC
Associated Press, Apple

Online poker goes legit

A Las Vegas-based casino has launched the first fully legal poker website in the United States

, Associated Press Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 9:58 PM UTC
Associated Press, Online Poker

Government preparing to fine tech firms that don’t comply with wiretaps

A DOJ task force’s proposal would penalize companies like Google or Facebook and pique privacy concerns

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 6:12 PM UTC
wiretap, Internet

The Department of iPhone Security

Claiming issues of "public safety" are involved, ICE agents help Apple bust South Florida smartphone repair shops

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 6:03 PM UTC
Apple, iPhone, Smartphone

S&P 500 reaches new high

The stock market has recovered all the ground it lost over the previous two weeks

Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:44 PM UTC
Associated Press

Google’s new answer to Siri

Google Now, a free iPhone and iPad app, performs many of the same functions as the Apple software

, Associated Press Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:30 PM UTC
Associated Press, Siri, Google

Mark Zuckerberg is not trying to drill in ANWR

Environmentalists can relax. The Facebook founder's new PAC is not pushing a pro-fossil fuel agenda

Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:28 PM UTC
Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg

Wikipedia’s shame

Sexism isn't the problem at the online encyclopedia. The real corruption is the lust for revenge

Monday, Apr 29, 2013 6:04 PM UTC 104
wikipedia, Amand Filipacchi

Can we record our inner monologues?

An anthropologist at the University of Manchester is pioneering a new peripatetic transcription of consciousness VIDEO

, Scientific American Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:56 PM UTC
Scientific American, Video

Cyberattack suspect to return to Netherlands

The suspect, identified only as S.K., is accused of hacking the anti-spam watchdog group Spamhaus

and , Associated Press Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:29 PM UTC
Associated Press, netherlands

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrubbed online presence before bombings

According to family friends, the bombing suspect deleted his Instagram account two weeks prior to the attacks

, The Daily Dot Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:00 PM UTC
the daily dot, Boston Marathon

Amanda Palmer to Morrissey: Let me help you crowdsource your next album

The former Smiths singer has complained that no label wants him. With such passionate fans, he does not need one

Monday, Apr 29, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 27
Morrissey, smiths, Music

Forget copyright! We’ve always stolen music

The politics of copyright place the interests of big business over fans, the public -- and artists

Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 9:00 PM UTC 31
Music, Art in Crisis, Copyright

App of the Week: Twitter Music

Social media and music discovery never looked so good. But be careful who you follow

Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 6:00 PM UTC
app of the week, Twitter Music

6 ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers

While many top-market pills have gone off patent, the pharmaceutical industry still knows how to turn a profit

, Alternet Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 1:00 PM UTC
AlterNet, Pharmaceuticals

Will smartglasses replace eyeglasses?

Researchers say the future looks bright for Google Glass and other companies in the smartglass market

, Scientific American Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 11:00 PM UTC
Scientific American, Google

We tried to weaponize the weather

Cold War secrets: Melting polar ice cap with nukes, changing the sea level, even LSD weapons were all on the table

Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 7:00 PM UTC 41
Books, Cold War, Climate Change

Top 5 investigative videos: Stoned on the job

From pot brownies to nerve-calming heads of lettuce, a look at the finest docs YouTube has to offer VIDEO

, The I Files Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 6:00 PM UTC
Video

The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP

Paltrow's dopey newsletter offers advice on quinoa and Corsican spas -- and somehow it's mesmerizingly readable

, The Daily Dot Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 12
daily dot, Gwyneth Paltrow, goop

Canada tightens restrictions on Bitcoin trading

Both the Royal Bank of Canada and TDBank have frozen Bitcoin accounts, without explaining their reasoning

, The Daily Dot Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:31 PM UTC
the daily dot, bitcoins, Canada

How scared should we be of avian flu?

H7N9 has killed 22 in China. An expert explains whether our fears of a global epidemic are founded

and , GlobalPost Friday, Apr 26, 2013 3:52 PM UTC
GlobalPost, China, Avian Flu, H7N9

Failed HIV vaccine clinical trial shut down

Researchers faced a major setback in the pursuit of an HIV vaccine after the shot was shown to be ineffective

Friday, Apr 26, 2013 3:20 PM UTC
HIV/AIDS, AIDS, Science

Possible suspect in ricin case goes into hiding

A Mississippi man has dropped out of sight from the media while cooperating with authorities, his lawyer says

, Associated Press Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:28 AM UTC
Associated Press, Ricin

Facebook helps solve 45-year-old murder

A 1968 hit-and-run in upstate New York had gone unsolved -- until a retired cop renewed the investigation online

, The Daily Dot Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 8:59 PM UTC
the daily dot, Facebook

Syria may have crossed “red line” with use of chemical weapons

Officials say more proof is needed, and the U.S. is not ready to escalate its involvement in the conflict

and , Associated Press Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 5:13 PM UTC
Associated Press, Chuck Hagel

Bill Clinton joins Twitter

@BillClinton started tweeting Wednesday, and he already has hundreds of thousands of followers

, The Daily Dot Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
the daily dot, Bill Clinton

Astronomers solve mystery of water on Jupiter

The water first surfaced after the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet in 1994

, GlobalPost Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:38 PM UTC
GlobalPost, Jupiter, NASA

Hagel: Syrian government likely used chemical weapons

President Obama has said the use of such weaponry would could prompt the U.S. to intervene in the Syrian civil war

Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:00 PM UTC
Associated Press, Barack Obama

Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel

Studies show reconfiguring the genetics of E. coli can produce hydrocarbons identical to those burned in trucks

, Scientific American Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 3:14 PM UTC
Scientific American

Could Tsarnaev have hid from infrared?

How the technology made escape virtually impossible for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect

, Scientific American Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 11:28 PM UTC 13
Scientific American, Tsarnaev

Load More