You’d Be Crazy to Actually Spend Bitcoin
Speculative fervor makes the cryptocurrency clumsy for commerce.

January 7, 2018 at 01:39PM
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Playing Bar Trivia With HQ’s Scott
This time, someone else is asking the questions.

January 7, 2018 at 09:58AM
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The snapping point
Snap’s unusual structure led to a series of breakthroughs — but could it break the company?

January 7, 2018 at 07:52AM
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This Flying Bathtub Is A Triumph Of Engineering And Man’s Capacity For Dumb Ideas
Did anyone really need “the world’s first manned flying tub”? No, but that’s not really the point.

January 5, 2018 at 11:20AM
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Chess’s New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm
Computer engines now mold the way the game is played at its highest human levels: calculating, stodgy, defensive, careful. Or at least that’s how it has been.

January 5, 2018 at 11:03AM
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Two Major Security Flaws Found In Almost Every Processor — Here’s What To Read
Security researchers are calling the flaws Meltdown and Spectre, and between the two, they affect almost every computer, tablet, phone and cloud computing service.

January 4, 2018 at 12:13PM
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You Could Mine 1 Bitcoin Per Month If You Harvested the Body Heat from 44,000 People
A best case scenario would look like a “Matrix”-esque hellscape and still require hundreds of people.

January 4, 2018 at 08:38AM
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Mark Twain, Tech Prophet
A short story published in The Atlantic in 1878 may contain the first literary reference to a telephone — along with striking insights into modern dating.

January 3, 2018 at 06:19PM
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What Is Sinkholing?
What’s one good way to bring down a botnet? Send that traffic to a sinkhole.

January 3, 2018 at 06:19PM
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Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Microprocessors
Computer security experts have discovered two major security flaws in the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.

January 3, 2018 at 05:16PM
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