How to ‘Regram’ a Photo on Instagram
Instagram doesn’t make it easy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it.

March 20, 2018 at 06:01PM
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This Hat Can Fool a Face Recognition System Into Thinking You’re Moby
Researchers created an infrared light device that obscures your face from detection software and can even project someone else’s face onto your own.

March 20, 2018 at 04:59PM
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Alexa Is Ripping This Animated Family Apart
Yeah, the cartoon characters in this video are having a bad time with their Amazon Echo. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the audio was recorded at the cartoonist’s actual kitchen table with the cartoonist’s actual family, because the dialogue is actually real.

March 20, 2018 at 03:52PM
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‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques — likely affecting hundreds of millions of users — and that Facebook looked the other way.

March 20, 2018 at 10:20AM
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Alex Stamos, Facebook Data Security Chief, To Leave Amid Outcry
The social network was said to have reached a deal with the executive to depart after disagreements over how to address its role in spreading disinformation.

March 20, 2018 at 06:48AM
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The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online
You can now search through the Internet Archive’s Handheld History Collection to play emulated versions of your favorite handheld games.

March 20, 2018 at 06:48AM
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China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech
Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.

March 19, 2018 at 11:03PM
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The Bidet’s Revival
Invented centuries ago in France, the bidet has never taken off in the States. That might be changing.

March 19, 2018 at 05:07PM
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Drama on HQ as Would-Be Winner is Kicked Out for Cheating
Sunday-night chaos broke out on the world’s most popular trivia app as players suspected the finalists in a $25,000 winner-takes-all game weren’t playing fair.

March 19, 2018 at 03:48PM
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Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian In First Autonomous Vehicle Death
ABC 15, an Arizona news station, has reported that a pedestrian was fatally injured overnight by a self-driving Uber car in Tempe.

March 19, 2018 at 11:34AM
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