In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic...
Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy...
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more...
With just an incubator and some broth, researchers can grow reusable filters made of bacteria to clean up polluted water,...
Who will win Nobel Prizes in 2022? Wikipedia posits a handful of contenders for Physiology or Medicine, about 20 different...
Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world,...
Hurricane Ian strengthened as it headed for Florida and was on track to bring a powerful storm surge and potentially...
A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in...
Imagine purchasing “up to” a gallon of milk for US$4.50, or paying for “up to” a full tank of gas....
Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? A cybersecurity expert explains a whistleblower’s claims
Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July 2022,...
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the data broker of selling geolocation...
Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and...
