GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules court
Access to intercepted information obtained by the NSA breached human rights laws, according to Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

February 6, 2015 at 07:34AM
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This is Your Brain on Twitter
To demonstrate the power of tweets, Twitter’s ad researchers turned to neuroscience. Here’s what happened.

February 6, 2015 at 06:18AM
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A Eulogy for RadioShack, Written by the Internet
Everyone probably has a RadioShack memory, so the Motherboard staff decided to ​open up our editorial process to people on Twitter for this virtual memory board. We have no real way of verifying who actually contributed so maybe Ernest Hemingway didn’t actually help author this post. We have no idea who these people are.

February 6, 2015 at 05:15AM
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Your own messages posted on a billboard? Sure, why not?
There’s Twitter and Facebook, not to mention a vast variety of social chat apps. But what if you could go really large, using mega-public spaces like billboards and building walls to post messages and communicate with a general audience of people who don’t know or follow you?

February 6, 2015 at 12:03AM
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Apple is finally killing iPhoto – and this is the replacement
Photos for OS X, the modern photo library that Apple built from the ground up for Mac computers, is making its debut.

February 5, 2015 at 03:27PM
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The Next Internet Is TV
A new generation of artists and creative people ceding the still-fresh dream of direct compensation and independence to mediated advertising arrangements with accidentally enormous middlemen apps that have no special interest in publishing beyond value extraction through advertising is the early Internet utopian’s worst-case scenario.

February 5, 2015 at 01:04PM
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The Millennium Falcon Drone Is Real And Perfect
True to the source material, the hyperdrive rarely works.

February 5, 2015 at 12:01PM
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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies On One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
Werner Koch’s code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work.

February 5, 2015 at 11:45AM
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The Navy Has a Fire Fighting Robot
Meet SAFFiR, the future of firefighting — at least at sea.

February 4, 2015 at 07:20PM
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LOL Everything Matters When Everyone Is Connected
The guilt you feel when you take part in the on-demand economy may be justified.

February 4, 2015 at 05:37PM
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