Hacking and the Future Of Warfare
Like banks and technology companies, government agencies must move to a model that assumes hackers will always get in.

June 14, 2015 at 07:00PM
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The Police Are Scanning the Faces Of Every Single Person At Download
Typically music festivals are opportunities to sink into a large crowd and anonymously day drink. Revelers at this weekend’s Download Festival won’t be afforded such luxury, as they will all be part of an ambitious face-scanning project by the local police.

June 14, 2015 at 03:12PM
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Philae comet lander wakes up
Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November. It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat. The comet has since moved nearer to the sun and Philae has enough power to work again.

June 14, 2015 at 09:39AM
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This Computer Program Taught Itself To Play — And Beat — ‘Super Mario World’
YouTuber SethBling wrote Mar/IO, a program that taught itself to play “Super Mario World” through the power of “neuroevolution.”

June 14, 2015 at 09:05AM
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Robots Are Better Than Humans At Predicting Supreme Court Decisions
Multiple studies have shown that computer models can predict the outcomes of Supreme Court cases better than human legal experts.

June 14, 2015 at 07:54AM
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Stretchy wearable sensors can tell when you’re about to get sunburnt
A device the size of a nicotine patch could soon tell when you’ve spent too long exposed to the sun and need to take a break.

June 14, 2015 at 05:51AM
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The End Of Album Privilege
Six months after Billboard’s Top Albums chart opened the door to tracks and streams, the album has been bumped from its perch at the top of music’s food chain.

June 14, 2015 at 03:48AM
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Why It’s Often Easier To Innovate In China Than In The United States
My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping.

June 13, 2015 at 12:44PM
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Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle
If it’s not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed. That’s holding to be especially true with the recently disclosed hack of the federal Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources division.

June 13, 2015 at 07:54AM
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Upload your mind and live forever
Science fiction has long been influenced by philosophy. Sadly, the inverse doesn’t seem to happen nearly enough.

June 13, 2015 at 07:54AM
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