DEA gets down and dirty with new surveillance kit

Coinbase is the most conservative exchange in cryptoland, largely because it operates in the U.S. under the watchful eye of the SEC. The $8 billion-valued company trades fewer than 10 cryptocurrencies to consumers, but on Friday announced a major expansion…

Kevin Kelly, a writer and speaker best known as a futurist, goes back in time to talk about his early travel years being a backpacker in Asia.

A widely cited result says that 87% of Americans can be uniquely identified by their zip code, sex & birth date. We do a simulation to show this is plausible.

On the Possibility of Progress

Paul M. Romer delivered his lecture on 8 December 2018 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm

At a certain point, another million dollars doesn’t make anything newly affordable. That’s when other motivations take over.

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Forget about Quora's security breach. Their ongoing efforts to block access to their content, including a multi-year ban on the Internet Archive, are reason enough to never use them.

The mobile phone operator is understood to be demanding damages from supplier Ericsson.

Paulina was as remote as a 15-year-old could be. And then I saw her photography.

Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?

Playing on someone else’s count to level them up will now get a stiff fine

Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.

A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat.

Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same —…

Bug dealt with in Chrome and Edge, but still a problem for Firefox users.

Geogee! Countries of the world game. Multiplayer and single player countries of the world quiz! Learn and play. Flags, capital cities, borders, populations, maps and trivia of the world game. Geogee! Countries of the world game.. Multiplayer and single player.

Admit they are upping their use of mass snooping

Update: An updated version of this blogpost was published as a (peer-reviewed) Letter to the Editor at Bioinformatics, sans the “sociology” commentary. I just came back from CASP13, the…