Tor Browser 12.0 is now available. This new release updates Tor Browser to Firefox Extended Support Release 102.

Nature - Fires and droughts in the western states are getting worse — and they’re combining with industrial sources to threaten air quality and people’s health.

Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives. This isn’t exactly a secret,…

There is no literary spy—and perhaps no literary character, full stop—more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.

Greed, malice and incompetence in car design

It was only some weeks back that we were discussing how a group of hobbyists were once again doing the culture preservation work that content creators should be doing in the form of a scan of every…

One unfortunate scenario you might run into is running a SQL query that accidentally results in data loss. To deal with this issue, you would typically need to have backups and then roll back your database to a previous state. Neon’s database branching feature…

Iran plans to freeze protestors' bank accounts if they are caught without a hijab in public as critics suggest the worst is yet to come if CBDCs become the main medium of exchange.

The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.

Read CircleCI CEO Jim Rose’s email to employees regarding workforce reductions.

Advanced technologies like A.I. are enabling scientists to learn that the world is full of intelligent creatures with sophisticated languages, like honeybees. What might they tell us?

From the end of the sixth century onwards the written civil service examinations became a staple of life in Imperial China. Hilde de Weerdt retraces the development of the examination system.

Nature - Proof of concept of the viability of a plant-derived photosynthetic system based on nanothylakoid units encapsulated in a chondrocyte membrane to enhance cell anabolism in chondrocytes is...

The former COO of disgraced blood testing startup Theranos, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to 155 months, or about 13 years, in prison, and three years of probation. After a three-month trial, Balwani was found guilty on all 12 criminal charges, ranging…

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