While the largest tech platforms continue to assure us that eliminating misinformation is both a) very important to them, and b) impossible, Google's search results were hijacked today by fake news...

The first time I heard of Nature is Brutal, it was in the context of cat necrophilia. See, I had friends over to grill sausages in the backyard, and the conversation turned to feral cats. My yard...

If you’re interested in creative code, the crypto world can be a real buzzkill. Figured out a new way to exchange keys? Sorry, you’re better off using this protocol from the 70s. At least we know...

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WikiLeaks has published a new set of documents that shed light on the CIA’s hacking capabilities. Dubbed "Vault7," the publication contains 8,761 documents and files purportedly taken from a secure...

Following a series of legal battles that stalled the original order, the Trump administration has released a revised immigration ban suspending residents of six Muslim-majority countries from...

It turns out that the latest version of Hyrule is grounded in the modern day. According to Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director of the just-released Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while the game’s...

Earlier this week, my colleague Chaim Gartenberg covered a laptop called the GPD Pocket, which is currently being funded on Indiegogo. As Chaim pointed out, the Pocket’s main advantage is its size...

Donald Glover, the modern cultural polymath that he is, will add The Lion King remake to his resume. Director Jon Favreau just tapped the prodigious Atlanta creator and soon-to-be young Lando...

Destroying a planet is easy if you’ve got a Death Star (and even easier with Starkiller Base), but here on Earth we have a slightly tougher time. In our case, it’s up to the visual effects team at...

Facebook used to repeat its mission statement so often that most tech reporters could recite it from memory: "To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." And it’s...

Microsoft is planning to refresh its Windows 10 user interface in an update later this year, and the software maker has briefly started teasing what’s on the way. Windows Central reports that...