In 2014, the Supreme Court made it clear: phone searches require warrants. While it did note the case involved a search “incident to an arrest,” the precedent was undeniable. If a phone…

Hundreds of thousands of verified X users may have to hand over their ID and send the company a selfie if they want to maintain their vaunted status on the platform.

A team from Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä have created an artificial quantum magnet featuring a quasiparticle made of entangled electrons, the triplon

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A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.

On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information

Study identifies taste receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat—and one fish in particular

I maintain a 800 square feet garden in San Francisco's Mission District. Planning started in 2015 and we finally planted in January 2017. The process involved tearing up concrete, pouring a new sidew…

The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag.

Musings of a Computer Scientist.

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Workers have paid vacation days in Turkmenistan, Brazil, and the European Union — but not in the US.

The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science. Molecules are packed with stuff

As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a dash for safety.

Several of the characteristics that define a psychopath also correspond to the traits that make for effective leaders. For politicians, this is true

As microcontrollers become ever faster and cheaper, something we’ve been expecting has been an open source smartphone based not upon a high-end chip, but on a cheap commodity one. In the elec…

Learning the difficult language does not seem as worthwhile as it once did

A new framework for unionizations means that a company must voluntarily recognize a union or demand an election—and can no longer interfere with the election.