By Matt Novak
In last year’s documentary Citizenfour, Edward Snowden said, “I remember what the internet was like before it was being watched.” Snowden is just 31 years old, so there’s simply no way this is true. Intelligence agencies have been keeping tabs on the internet since before Snowden was even born. They were instrumental in creating it.
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If we’re ever going to explore the only celestial body in our solar system with surface bodies of liquid, we’re going to need a sea-worthy vehicle. Luckily, NASA is all over the niche space submarine market.
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Hey, happy Lincoln’s birthday! Abe would have been 206 today, and the US Patent and Trademark Office took the chance to…
By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: A Georgia chemistry student replied to a Craigslist ad that turned out to be fake. It led, police say, to his death when he met the alleged sellers.
By David Maass – Electronic Frontier Foundation
In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
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Apple has started to reject mobile games from the iOS app store for displaying guns in their promotional material and app store icons. So far, the regulation hasn’t had an impact on actual in-game content.
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Apple has started to reject mobile games from the iOS app store for displaying guns in their promotional material and app store icons. So far, the regulation hasn’t had an impact on actual in-game content.
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A security researcher…
If the remarkable popularity of figurines like Disney’s Infinity or Nintendo’s amiibo have proved anything, it’s that kids still love to collect things, and today’s kids love being rewarded for those collections. So is there room for yet another collectible series of figures in kids’ hearts? Of course there is. Especially when …
By Matt Novak
Americans were obsessed with spy culture during the Cold War. I mean, who didn’t love James Bond? Communists, that’s who. The gosh darn Communits. Spying seeped into every aspect of pop culture in the 1960s and 70s—from TV and movies to comic books and even board games.
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