How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked-and Played
Decades before 3-D printers brought manufacturing closer to home, copiers transformed offices, politics and art.

February 20, 2015 at 02:57AM
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Apple Wants to Start Producing Cars as Soon as 2020
Apple, which has been working secretly on a car, is pushing its team to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020, people with knowledge of the matter said.

February 19, 2015 at 09:02PM
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It’s OK for millennials to stay on their parents’ cellphone plans.
“I’m 26 and still on my parents’ cellphone plan. That’s a good thing.”

February 19, 2015 at 07:12PM
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Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections [Updated]
Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said.

February 19, 2015 at 04:28PM
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How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

February 19, 2015 at 03:29PM
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How random is random on your music player?
The fact is that the human brain, for all its brilliance, is a sucker for coincidences.

February 19, 2015 at 03:29PM
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Should we train more students to be hackers?
Broadly speaking, these young hackers fall into two groups — security hackers, who learn how computer networks can be attacked in order to better defend them, and hackathon hackers, who compete in all-night coding binges to invent new applications and re-engineer hardware. We need more of both types, desperately.

February 19, 2015 at 03:29PM
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This Is The Most Realistic Robot We Have Ever Seen
If this is where technology is headed, we don’t like it.

February 19, 2015 at 03:29PM
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Should we give up on the dream of space elevators?
Elevators that can whisk people and cargo up from the planet’s surface into space could spell an end to polluting rockets. But making them reality is a challenge.

February 19, 2015 at 11:40AM
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Rise of the RoboNurse
The star of the lab is PR2, a.k.a. Charlie, a plastic and metal humanoid with twenty-two degrees of freedom (your wrist has three; your elbow one).

February 19, 2015 at 11:40AM
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