by Jason Koebler on (#4D17K)
A single electronics recycler has had to destroy 66,000 iPhones in the last three years because of the iPhone's Activation Lock.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#4D17N)
The world’s most powerful operational rocket is open for business.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4D17Q)
The topic of IQ has been making a resurgence on YouTube not only as a good way to measure intelligence, but as a tool that can be used to promote scientific racism.
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by Joseph Cox on (#4D0Y8)
For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps. Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role in running a huge dark web drug marketplace.
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by Rob Dozier on (#4D0YA)
The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#4CZM4)
Israel’s Beresheet lander crashed on Thursday due to an engine failure.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#4CZG3)
A year-long experiment involving Mark and Scott Kelly found that long duration space trips affect genes, eyeballs, and cognitive abilities.
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by Rob Dozier on (#4CZBK)
No matter how hard you try, you can’t kill Bear Grylls in Netflix’s new interactive survival series.
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by Grant Maierhofer on (#4CZ7H)
An epic space opera of Pluto, drugs, and final frontiers.
by Caroline Haskins on (#4CZ7J)
Internal documents obtained by Motherboard detail the planning of an anti-package theft operation that used fake Amazon boxes rigged with GPS location trackers.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CZ2N)
Sure, imaging a black hole for the first time ever is exciting, but posters on Reddit's /r/datahoarder subreddit are focused on the data.
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by Ankita Rao on (#4CYX8)
Crowded curbsides cause a huge amount of traffic and congestion in our cities. Could "flex zones" help?
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by Becky Ferreira on (#4CYXA)
The Beresheet lander would have been the first private lander on the Moon and the first lunar soft-landing by Israel. Instead, engine failures caused it to crash.
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by Rob Dozier on (#4CYQX)
A classic game helps to solve a big problem with AI as the technology makes more decisions about our lives.
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by Joseph Cox on (#4CYHX)
For years, it has been publicly reported that Julian Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system. Now the Department of Justice has charged Assange for that.
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by Joseph Cox on (#4CY9V)
This month, the Los Angeles Department for Transportation will enter the next phase of collecting the real-time location of scooters like Lime and Bird.
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by Joseph Cox on (#4CWM7)
A leaked Facebook document gives more detail on the type of firearm parts that the social network does not allow people to sell peer-to-peer.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CWM9)
There's some trippy science behind the curious look of the first-ever direct observation of a black hole, released on Wednesday.
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by Nicole Carpenter on (#4CWF8)
’Dota Auto Chess,' a mod of 'Dota 2,' which itself is based on a mod for 'Warcraft 3,' has millions of players and growing.
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by Karl Bode on (#4CWFA)
The "Save the Internet Act" still faces long odds: It needs to get through a Republican-controlled Senate where it's been called 'dead on arrival,' and survive a veto threat from President Trump.
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by Jordan Pearson on (#4CW04)
The Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photo of a black hole on Wednesday, more than 100 years since Albert Einstein theorized their existence.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4CVVH)
Using AI, someone made a very haunted video of Jordan Peterson rapping "Lose Yourself."
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by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on (#4CV16)
A security firm has discovered a new victim of the infamous hacking group that targeted critical infrastructure with destructive malware.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4CTD6)
Platforms have a problem with informed consent. A new Senate bill might change that.
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by Sarah Emerson on (#4CT9E)
A NASA rocket launch mission that painted the Arctic sky was compared to an “alien attack.â€
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CT9G)
The film, now on Netflix, misses the mark by focusing on Ubisoft higher-ups during the development of 'For Honor,' rather than rank-and-file workers.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CT0G)
Jones is getting sued for allegedly violating the copyright of Pepe the Frog's creator by selling Pepe posters on Infowars.
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by Jordan Pearson on (#4CSV7)
China's economic planning agency is considering eliminating cryptocurrency mining along with numerous other products and processes. Comment period is open until May 7.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4CSN6)
The live comment section of the YouTube live stream of the House Judiciary hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism was filled with hateful trolls.
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by Kim Zetter on (#4CRJ1)
They also found evidence that Stuxnet has ties to another malware family. The discoveries were made using tools and techniques only available to researchers in recent years.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CQXG)
The /r/piracy subreddit is deleting all posts older than six months after allegedly being alerted to an overwhelming amount of copyright complaints.
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by Karl Bode on (#4CQXJ)
5G will provide faster speeds to urban users, but cost and widespread availability could remain stumbling blocks for many years to come.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4CQNE)
Skype's conferencing feature now allows double the participants, so I tested it out.
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by Motherboard Staff on (#4CPKA)
This week, CYBER speaks to Runa Sandvik, the senior director of information security at The New York Times about how she helps the Times journalists stay safe online and help them protect sources.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4CKYG)
For the first time, scientists studied the dolphin clit up close—and found something familiar
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CJMK)
The European Commission is mad at Valve, Capcom, ZeniMax, and other publishers for region-locking activation keys and allegedly preventing cross-border sales.
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by Jason Koebler on (#4CJCR)
Fight for the Future's Evan Greer talks about her experiences as an activist and trans woman in "She/her/they/them."
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by Anne Gaviola on (#4CJ84)
Innisfil, Ontario is a sleepy town known for its antiquing, and now it's going in on Bitcoin.
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by Jordan Pearson on (#4CHZP)
Hayabusa2 was launched with a five-gram bullet and an explosive, both meant for the Ryugu asteroid 200 million miles from Earth.
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by Rob Dozier on (#4CGKH)
Teasers for the film were reportedly shown at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, and reactions were... mixed.
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by Jason Koebler on (#4CGGS)
The biggest ICE raid in a decade, at a CVE Technology Group facility in Texas, went after the people who repair our phones.
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by Rob Dozier on (#4CG9P)
France designed a new keyboard to remedy grammatical problems it says was caused by other keyboard designs.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CG9R)
The 996.ICU movement has largely organized on GitHub, and has produced a software license aimed at forcing companies to treat workers fairly if they use open source software.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4CG5Q)
President Trump stopped funding a climate change advisory committee in 2017. The group just released its first report today as an independent group.
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by Rachel Pick on (#4CG10)
It's not the first time the two games have been mashed up, but it's the most faithful rendition we've seen.
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by Lincoln Michel on (#4CG12)
Welcome to a planet where worshipping the wrong appendage can get you killed.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4CFWJ)
Your feline friend understands that it has a name, and it knows when you use it, new research has found.
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by Karl Bode on (#4CFRB)
Researchers discovered a since-patched vulnerability in an app pre-installed on smartphones made by Xiaomi.
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by Tim Maughan on (#4CFAY)
Is it possible to take down the internet by physically attacking its infrastructure?
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by Samantha Cole on (#4CEA6)
Ads for cashier positions in supermarkets reached an 85% female audience, and ads for positions in taxi companies reached a 75% Black audience.
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