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Wednesday January 23, 2019. 07:00 PM
Taking a page from film noir spycraft, a team of researchers found a way to photograph an object while pointing a camera in the opposite direction.
This month, for the first time in a generation, America's public domain grew, as the 20-year freeze created by the 1998 changes to copyright law finally thawed. The remarkable Parker Higgins (previously) is celebrating with a new zine called 1923 (this being the year whose ...
A new strain of ransomware has been observed targeting Bitcoin mining rigs. ZDNet reports: At the time of writing, most of the infections have been reported in China, the country where most of the world's cryptocurrency mining farms are located. Named hAnt, this new...
While 57,000 TSA employees are expected to work without pay during the government shutdown, Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), a government worker himself, thinks it's just dandy to travel first class. While sitting in his plush seat on a flight from Chicago to Washinton, D.C., a...
During Monday's super wolf blood moon lunar eclipse, some observers noticed a tiny flash on the surface. Turns out that was a football-sized meteorite smashing into the western surface of the moon. This was the first time a meteorite impact was spotted during a total lunar...
After six school days on the picket line, more then 30,000 LA public school teachers voted to accept an offer from the nation's second-largest school district that amounted to a near-total capitulation by management in favor of the teachers' broad demands: smaller classes;...
It might not be the holidays anymore, but pie is one of the best desserts you can eat all year long. A flaky crust, fluffy interior, and slightly sweet taste make pie a […] The post 8 Bizarre Pie Flavors for Your National Pie Day Fix appeared first on Geek.com.
The Apple CEO wants to bring data brokers out of the shadows. Don't expect them to go quietly.
FUTURE-IS-NOW IT: Amazon and Starship announced new delivery options using sidewalk autonomous robots, while Kroger and Walmart deliveries take to the road.
Data cap cash. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) US cable Internet customers are using an average of 268.7GB per month, and 4.1 percent of households use at least 1TB, according to new research by the vendor OpenVault. Households that use at least 1TB a month are at...
Enlarge / Super Smash Bros. Ultimate helped propel the Nintendo Switch to a great December amid an even better 2018 in the US. A year ago, we highlighted industry analysis firm NPD's data to show that worries about the impending death of the console gaming industry were...
Far be it from me to say games shouldn’t aim higher. I’m a strong believer in this medium, and I’ve spent years applauding the games that try to address serious and substantial themes within an interactive story. Not succeed, but try. That’s how low the bar is, for...
At the 2019 New York Video Game Awards, the annual celebration of the year in video games put on by the New York Video Games Critics Circle, GQ freelancer Joshua Rivera and I […] The post Give It Up For Worlds At The 2019 New York Video Game Awards appeared first on Geek.com.
With the World Economic Forum kicking off in Davos, Switzerland -- where the super-rich are already decrying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's massively popular 70% tax-rate on earning over $10,000,000 -- it's a great time to revisit Anand Giridharadas's must-read 2018 book Winners ...
[This post is sponsored by Glowforge. To get $100 off a Glowforge Basic, $250 off a Glowforge Plus, or $500 off a Glowforge Pro use the link glowforge.com/boingboing.] My 15-year-old daughter and I love retro video games. We often go a retro video game arcade in Pasadena,...
China is gearing up to launch a social credit system in 2020, giving all citizens an identity number that will be linked to a permanent record. Like a financial score, everything from paying back loans to behaviour on public transport will be included. One aspect of this...
Enlarge / Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., left, leaves her home under the supervision of security in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (credit: Ben Nelms/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The United States...
Ransomware attacks are increasingly well targeted and complex, and they can prove devastating for businesses. Storage specialist Cohesity is launching a new set of anti-ransomware capabilities for its DataPlatform that can directly combat attacks. It offers three levels of...
Enlarge / The New Shepard launch system is prepared for Wednesday morning's flight. (credit: Blue Origin) Under clear West Texas skies on Wednesday morning, Blue Origin's autonomous New Shepard launch system made what appeared to be a flawless flight into space and back....
Grassroots Analytics is a small, obscure founded by Danny Hogenkamp, a 24-year-old who studied Arabic in college and had not been involved in politics until he joined the 2016 Congressional campaign of Colleen Deacon in Syracuse, a working-class single mom campaigning on...
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