Category: Technology

“There are a whole lot of reasons why it’s a bad idea to arm robots,” says Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School in New York who researches the automation of policing. He believes the decision is part of a broader movement to militarize the police. “You can conceive of a potential use […]

Nobody is immune to being scammed online—not even the people running the scams. Cybercriminals using hacking forums to buy software exploits and stolen login details keep falling for cons and are getting ripped off thousands of dollars at a time, a new analysis has revealed. And what’s more, when the criminals complain that they are being […]

Apple announced today that it is launching expanded end-to-end encryption protections in its iCloud service. The company already offers the vital security feature for some data in its cloud platform—including passwords, credit card and other payment data, and health data—but it will offer an option to extend the protection to other sensitive information including photos, […]

In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos that users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow the company to flag potentially problematic and abusive content without revealing anything else. But the initiative was controversial, and it soon drew widespread criticism from […]

Clark’s modeling found that people are indeed moving away from hurricane risk; southern states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are migration cold spots, as the first map showed. Florida, however, is a hot spot, exposing more people there to hurricanes and wildfires, which frequently scorch the panhandle. Illustration: Clark, et al., Frontiers in Human Dynamics Clark also […]

Liz Crokin, a popular QAnon influencer who boasts more than 100,000 followers on Telegram and hundreds of paid subscribers on Substack, wrote on Telegram that the emails implicate Dorsey in the same Satanic cabal as Hillary Clinton adviser John Podesta. “Pizza is a pedophile code word that’s been identified by law enforcement,” Crokin wrote. (She, […]

In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous white vessel, holding a crew of three, was being lowered for a dive when a cable snapped. Suddenly, Alvin was sinking. The scientists clambered out, shocked and a little bruised, as the vessel plunged, hatch ajar, eventually settling […]

Not every chair is a winner. Here are a few others we like enough to recommend, but they’re not as good as our top picks above.  Knoll Newson Task Chair for $1,195: This minimalist chair looks best in the graphite and petal colors; it’s a bit drab in black and umber. It’s nice that I […]

The return of Diablo, the iconic demon-slaying hack-and-slash franchise, is nigh. Activision Blizzard, the company behind the game, announced during the Game Awards in December that Diablo IV would release on June 6th, 2023. That would put it nearly 11 years after the release of Diablo III. It’s a long time to wait between games, but now Blizzard […]

The format is clearly popular, because Netflix has two more similar series due for release in 2023—currently called Untitled Tennis Series and Untitled Golf Series. They’re made by the producers of Drive to Survive, and if you’ve watched that you’ll know what to expect: tension, drama, pressure, sweat. The problem is that it’s all manufactured, a […]