U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications.

Christopher C. "Chris" Kraft, Jr. (b. 1924) created the concept, and developed the organization, operational procedures, and culture of NASA's Mission Control, which was a critical element of the success of the nation's human spaceflight programs.

Six years ago, a warehouse employee at one of Apple’s top suppliers, Jabil, stole thousands of iPhone 5C casings from a factory in China before the product was announced. The employee, with help from a security guard, falsified documents and avoided security…

The author has spent a decade fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms—and convincing those who don’t believe him that his illness is real

American diplomats’ brains shrunk following an alleged sonic attack on the US Embassy in Cuba, according to a new study.

Fifty-two sailors were on board when the Minerve vanished over 50 years ago in the Mediterranean.

Stephen Wolfram shares his memories of mathematical physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum. Also a detailed discussion of his work and big discovery of a universal constant for functions approaching chaos via period doubling.

Map With AI, tool created by Facebook researchers and engineers, is helping the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project map missing roads around the world.

The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition.

Announcing composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia | Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....

The USAF has them but isn't telling us they do, or they don't. Either way we are in trouble. Here's why.

By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology

I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday: Here’s the full story on it. Yesterday I flew home from Spain, where I’d spent a week at the Celsius 232 festival in Aviles. It was a lovely time,…

Toilets from all around the world and throughout history, from the Indiana Jones and Ansel Adams of latrines All this and more on the Toilets of the World.

The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known.Photograph by Bs0u10e01 / WikicommonsThe mysteries…