Met Police: No worries—if you decline to be scanned, it won't be suspicious at all!

Elon Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies, is set to raise $500 million at a $30.5 billion valuation, in a bid to help get a satellite-internet service off the ground.

A former Nasa engineer spent six months building a disguised glitter bomb to surprise thieves stealing parcels from his doorstep.

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor who has built a reputation for fighting ‘political correctness’ and ‘cultural Marxism,’ and the Libertarian comedian and pundit Dave Rubin announced Monday that they would launch an alternative to the crowdfunding website…

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We recently discovered malicious actors using steganography on memes. It should be noted that the malware was not downloaded from Twitter and that we did not observe what specific mechanism was used to deliver the malware to its victims.

The central nervous system (CNS) underlies memory, perception, decision-making, and behavior in numerous organisms. However, neural networks have no monopoly on the signaling functions that implement these remarkable algorithms. It is often forgotten ...

An analysis of an Hacker News thread, using Python, Hacker News API and Goodreads API, and the definitive top 20 book suggestion list!

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report calls for a 35% boost in funding for fusion research

Pronto is a safe-driving autonomy company led by an unrivaled pioneering team that has been at the forefront of the most important advances in the autonomous vehicle industry.

Blue Apron shares fell below $1 for the first time on Tuesday.
The company's initial public offering priced at $10 in June 2017. 
Amazon bought Whole...

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Mr. Mossberg has spent decades chronicling the privacy implications of Facebook’s policies. On Monday, he opted out.

The ability to ruin a stranger’s life is a feature, not a bug of consumer rating systems

by Jean-Louis Gassée

One of the biggest generational schisms on the internet today (besides your level of gif game) is your connection to the idea of the “free and open web.” Anyone in their mid-20s or younger does not remember an internet not utterly dominated by today’s giant…