OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone
OnePlus is calling it the “Ladies First” contest, and it’s basically as awful as it sounds.

August 12, 2014 at 8:18PM
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$15,000 Prize Offered to Anyone Who Can Profile a Suitcase
The Transportation Security Administration will pony up $15,000 for an idea for a system that crosschecks baggage tags against fliers’ personal data to determine the threat-level of their bags.

August 12, 2014 at 4:08PM
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Wanna Build Your Own Google? Visit the App Store for Algorithms
Today’s Internet is ruled by algorithms. Yet some academic computer science researchers spend years developing algorithms that are seldom seen outside of academia — even if they could be of great use to engineers in the private sector.

August 12, 2014 at 2:31PM
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By cracking cellphone code, NSA has ability to decode private conversations
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.

August 12, 2014 at 12:24PM
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Siri’s Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
Siri is great, but has obvious limitations. Viv aims to do absolutely everything you wish Siri could.

August 12, 2014 at 10:05AM
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How To Not Get Hacked at the World’s Preeminent Hacker Conference
Before I arrived at the Rio Hotel for Defcon, the giant Las Vegas hacker convention that tends to draw digital mischief-makers by the thousands, I received some simple but startling advice: Do not, under any circumstances, use the free conference wifi.

August 12, 2014 at 8:57AM
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Third-Person Driving With Drones
Want to make driving more like a video game? Spoiler: you don’t.

August 12, 2014 at 8:46AM
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The Skully Smart Motorcycle Helmet Sharpens Your Senses On The Road
The stats around motorcycle safety in the United States are pretty bleak, but the folks at Skully are looking to give an added layer of safety to the bike-riding thrill-seekers of the world.

August 12, 2014 at 3:06AM
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White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm
The idea behind the USDS, as the White House has taken to calling it, is institutionalizing the approach that saved the health care site and applying it to the work of the government even before disaster strikes.

August 11, 2014 at 9:01PM
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This Map Shows How Fast The Internet Is In Your State
The Internet was invented in the U.S., but we don’t have the fastest internet speeds in the world — for that, you probably want to visit South Korea.

August 11, 2014 at 5:09PM
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