The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn't need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.

After years of placid admonishments, the tech world came out in force against President Trump this past week following the violent assault of the U.S.

In its biggest original programming foray, Roku has bought exclusive global distribution rights to the portfolio of Quibi.

Crime Science - Pump-and-dump schemes are fraudulent price manipulations through the spread of misinformation and have been around in economic settings since at least the 1700s. With new...

(For the new reader, there is a famous essay called Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. It has since spawned a long list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About....) Everyone has fingerprints! The BBC has a grim tale of a family with a genetic mutation…

Software development is a funny profession. It covers people who do stuff ranging from register twiddling in device drivers and OS guts, to people who serve web content, to “big data” s…

President Donald Trump has been suspended from Facebook and permanently banned from Twitter, following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

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The topic trended briefly, with many people quoting Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol Wednesday chanting the phrase as a noose awaited outside.

The govt through the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has reportedly requested all major telecom companies to

House Democrats intend to introduce an article of impeachment on Monday charging President Trump with “willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States.” President-elect Joe Biden prioritizes the economy, saying there is a “a dire,…

Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room, and I’ve found her poetry coming to me a lot this year. Though her isolation was voluntary, I doubt it was easy. Her room overlooked…

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Amidst all of the horror, tedium and confusion that has accompanied the beginning of 2021, there is one small glimmer of good news: (much of) the work of George Orwell has come out of copyright…

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