by Karl Bode on (#49ERX)
Cable giants routinely advertise one rate then charge you another thanks to hidden fees a well-lobbied government refuses to do anything about.
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by Ernie Smith on (#49EKY)
The Hackintosh has become a phenomenon in recent years, despite knotty ethical questions, because Apple’s neglected superfans won’t stop thinking different.
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by Rob Dozier on (#497VK)
"The Journey of Us" project is a collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, and Google.
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by Sarah Emerson on (#497Q0)
"I just kind of had my heart sink into my stomach."
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by Jason Koebler on (#497Q2)
Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#497KD)
Dancers performed as electrons, brain processes, and teaching tools.
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by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on (#49754)
Security researchers and activists exposed a brazen attempt to steal Venezuelan usernames and passwords for popular email and social media websites such as Gmail, Facebook, Microsoft Live, and Twitter.
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by Max Mertens on (#4970B)
Jayda G studied whales before becoming a globetrotting DJ and music producer. Now, she's running a series of talks with young scientists to marry her two passions.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#496PX)
Scientists used the second largest earthquake on record to glimpse the terrain 410 miles under our planet's surface.
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by Matthew Gault on (#495JM)
Thispersondoesnotexist.com serves up a new AI-generated face every time you hit refresh.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4959Q)
With Allstate's purchase of iCracked, you could say the right to repair movement is ... in good hands.
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by Jordan Pearson on (#4959S)
The largest bank in the US is launching a 'digital coin,' and Bitcoin fans are nonplussed
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by Jason Koebler on (#4951D)
It's a huge win for New Yorkers, but Amazon's practice of extracting subsidies from state and local governments is still hugely successful all over the country.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4951F)
PredPol uses an algorithm based on earthquake prediction to “predict crime.†Academics say it’s simplistic and harmful.
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by Matthew Gault on (#494VS)
Booker T. Huffman filed suit in Texas after Activision Blizzard allegedly lifted his character GI Bro in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'
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by Rob Dozier on (#494PA)
King Vader has built his brand on parodies like "Hood Naruto"—and a commitment to avoid beefing.
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by Kevin Bankston on (#494PC)
This Valentine's Day, enjoy a timeless tale of courtship, love, and loss as experienced through the connective technologies of the internet age, and beyond.
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by Samantha Cole on (#494HE)
Researchers plotted “vocal bursts†on a map, and found that we experience around 24 nonverbal emotions.
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by Daniel Oberhaus on (#494CK)
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#492KP)
Sightings of wild melanistic leopards are rare in Africa—but not unheard of.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4923W)
A Valentine’s Day tribute to the kinkier side of lockpicking.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#491YA)
Mission leads have not heard from Oppy since it was caught in a massive dust storm last June. On Wednesday, NASA will likely announce that it has died.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#490DD)
If we do nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the weather in New York City will feel like Alabama and Los Angeles will be as hot as the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
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by Matthew Gault on (#4909Q)
A tech policy researcher used GDPR to request information about all of his choices from Netflix.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#4905X)
YouTube structurally prioritizes audience feedback, which can drive content-makers to promote conspiracy theories or hate.
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by Dustin Patar on (#4905Z)
Reading the terms and conditions of online consumer contracts requires, on average, more than 14 years of education.
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by Sarah Emerson on (#49061)
Malaysian authorities found two warehouses full of the most trafficked mammal in the world.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#4901Z)
“Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognize that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage.â€
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by Joseph Cox on (#48ZQB)
Scammers don't only hack Instagram accounts. Sometimes they just provide Instagram with some paperwork.
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by Motherboard Staff on (#48Z7E)
This week, CYBER speaks to Shane Huntley, the Director of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), essentially Google's hacker hunting team.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#48XVY)
Within a matter of months, NASA has discovered the first subglacial craters known to science. They’re both huge and relatively young.
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by Daniel Oberhaus on (#48XR3)
The research explains how a third ancient human ancestor bred with humans to produce the modern human genome.
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by Sarah Emerson on (#48XKG)
"Daily life is in turmoil."
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by Matthew Gault on (#48XF0)
Twitter user and YouTuber Kisaragi Hutae 6 animated the iconic character jumping across the lined pages of a notebook
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by Becky Ferreira on (#48XA2)
More than 40 percent of insects are at risk of extinction within 100 years.
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by Matthew Gault on (#48RGX)
Epic’s new store has started a war with Steam, representing two titans duking it out for dominance.
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by Daniel Oberhaus on (#48RDT)
The process could help convert millions of tons of plastic we generate every year into an gasoline and diesel-like fuel.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#48R6F)
It's one of 19 asteroids that have been detected within Earth's orbit.
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by Samantha Cole on (#48QS2)
“Dicksburg has become a post-ablockalyptic glandscape."
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by Becky Ferreira on (#48P2W)
Black soldier flies are the Joey Chestnuts of the larvae world.
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by Karl Bode on (#48P2Y)
A Motherboard investigation found that telecom companies are selling their customers' "assisted GPS" data, which is intended for first responders answering 911 calls.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#48P30)
Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed.
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by Sarah Emerson on (#48NV4)
"I feel bad here because I feel like I'm ruining a really good story."
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by Jordan Pearson on (#48NV6)
Goatse.cx's latest play with virtual money is selling pixel space for ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native token.
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by Caroline Haskins on (#48NV8)
PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.
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by Karl Bode on (#48NGC)
ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to pick and choose winners on the internet, study suggests.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#48NGE)
“This name reminds us that it is in the human genes to explore.â€
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by Motherboard Staff on (#48N22)
This week on CYBER, we talk to the people who concocted a bold sting operation to unmask an undercover agent.
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by Samantha Cole on (#48MXQ)
The kink for watching people transform into sloshing human berries is more widespread than you think.
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by Jack Hauen on (#48MXN)
By submitting fake copyright “flags†a scammer demanded hundreds of dollars via Paypal or Bitcoin and even managed to get past YouTube’s anti-abuse team.
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