When Apps Secretly Team Up To Steal Your Data
An analysis of the top 100,000 Android apps found tens of thousands of pairings that leak sensitive data, including your GPS location.

April 9, 2017 at 09:49AM
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How Apple’s Night Shift Compares to F.lux
Apple recently added Night Shift to macOS, which changes the color temperature of your screen based on the time of day in the hopes that it’ll help you sleep better. Before the launch of Night Shift, f.lux was the go-to tool for doing this. Let’s see how they compare.

April 8, 2017 at 04:00PM
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The night the cops hacked their phones
A group of Black Lives Matter activists is convinced that the NYPD used secretive surveillance on them.

April 8, 2017 at 08:01AM
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Are We Witnessing The Beginning Of The End For Free Music Streaming?
Spotify has long evangelized free listening as a way to pull users in to paying for its service. The music industry’s patience with the strategy seems to have run out.

April 7, 2017 at 09:30PM
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I Surfed the Wholesome Web of the 1990s at This Historically Accurate Internet Cafe
London’s 64 Bits exhibition goes back to the future of the web’s early days.

April 7, 2017 at 08:39AM
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Why All Your Gadgets Want You to Talk to Them
Why all the electronic stuff in your life are suddenly so desperate to start up a conversation.

April 6, 2017 at 11:42PM
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The future of driverless cars is a bus
Autonomous pods solve more problems than driverless cars.

April 6, 2017 at 08:36PM
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This Video Was Shot In The Middle Of The Night But Thanks To A High End, Low Light Sensor It Looks Like Daytime
According to Youtuber “hms311,” the X27 low light camera is the “highest performing true gen 4 color night vision low light sensor imaging system” and is a technological breakthrough for the military.

April 6, 2017 at 12:52PM
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Spotify is testing lossless audio. Can you hear the difference?
In actuality, the difference is very difficult to discern.

April 6, 2017 at 10:37AM
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Fuck You And Die: An Oral History Of Something Awful
Current internet culture is rooted in the SomethingAwful.com forums, and these are the people who made it what it was.

April 6, 2017 at 08:43AM
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