Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain
Inside Google’s massive effort in Deep Learning, which could make already-smart search into scary-smart search.

January 16, 2015 at 02:24PM
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Why I Hope Congress Never Watches Blackhat
New sweeping legislation proposed by the Obama administration will blur the line between blackhats and whitehats — making all manner of cybersecurity work extremely risky.

January 16, 2015 at 01:13PM
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U.S., Britain to Stage Cyber ‘War Games’ Later This Year
The United States and the U.K. will stage cyber “war games” together, starting this year, to boost both countries’ resistance to cyberattacks, Britain’s government said Thursday.

January 16, 2015 at 12:03PM
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What Was The Beagle 2 Mission, And How Was It Found After A Decade?
The UK-led Beagle 2 was due to land on Mars on December 25th, 2003. The spacecraft was ejected from Mars Express on December 19th 2003. Nothing had been heard from Beagle 2 and the mission was presumed lost. Until now.

January 16, 2015 at 07:46AM
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Missing Beagle 2 Mars Lander Spotted on Planet’s Surface
The missing Mars lander Beagle 2 has been found on the surface of the planet after more than a decade, scientists announced Friday, solving the mystery of what happened to its doomed mission.

January 16, 2015 at 06:44AM
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Who’s Afraid of Robot Culture?
Fear not the machines of the future. We can — and should — use the tools we’ve been developing to be both more critical and more creative.

January 16, 2015 at 06:30AM
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Who’s to blame for the Net neutrality mess? Look to Verizon
Verizon fought hard to overturn 2010 rules governing Internet access. But it now faces the possibility that the FCC will impose even stricter regulations than the ones it had thrown out.

January 15, 2015 at 11:09PM
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Google to stop consumer sales of Glass to redesign device
Google will stop selling its Internet-connected eyewear to consumers until the company can develop a more polished and affordable version that’s less likely to be viewed as a freakish device.

January 15, 2015 at 09:09PM
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The Cathedral of Computation
We’re not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy.

January 15, 2015 at 08:04PM
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Obama Administration to Announce Updates to NSA Reform
The Obama administration is planning to issue a series of progress updates about its efforts over the past year to reform the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance authority.

January 15, 2015 at 05:44PM
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