- The Blockbuster Showdown At Tomorrow's Berlin Marathon
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 23:00:00 +0000
Can three elite runners, with a little help from Nike and Adidas, smash the marathon world record?
- Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious (And Play Super Mario Bros.)
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000
Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines.
- Hackers Break Into the SEC, DHS Tells 21 States Russian Hackers Targeted Them, and More Security News This Week
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
An SEC hack, a Russian dark web takedown, and more security news this week.
- What's So Great About Kids Fighting Monsters?
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Stories like the one in 'It' are pretty common in horror, but audiences never tire of them.
- Space Photos of the Week: Spiral Galaxy's Secretly a Giant Gasbag
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Cassini takes one last look at Saturn's moon, Jupiter's swirling clouds, and a star in a great big bubble this week in space.
- London Wants to Kick Uber Out of the City
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000
The ride-hailing company's offensive? Waging a popularity contest.
- Why Facebook Will Struggle to Regulate Political Ads
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:24:35 +0000
Disclosure rules for funding political ads are murky. Now Facebook wants to regulate itself
- How a Decrepit Grain Silo Became South Africa's Mind-Blowing Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:04:50 +0000
Architect Mat Cash transformed a facility meant to store 30,000 tons of wheat, maize, and sorghum into a celebration of art instead of agriculture.
- I Helped Create Facebook's Ad Machine. Here's How I'd Fix It
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:55:51 +0000
Facebook finally laid out some changes to its ad platform. But a former employee who helped build it shares his own ideas on how to fix the Russia problem.
- Baltimore Built an App to Map Opioid Overdoses in Real Time
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:58:03 +0000
Opioid overdoses proliferate, like a disease. A new app lets health and law-enforcement officials anticipate their spread.
- After Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s Murder, His Widow Battles Deportation
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:56:00 +0000
How one tech worker's story illuminates the plight of H-1B holders.
- What Is a ‘Dotard’? Kim Jong-Un Gives Trump a Language Lesson
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:06:53 +0000
If there's one good thing that came out of President Trump and Kim Jong-Un's back-and-forth, it's this.
- Review: Leica Sofort
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000
The cheapest-ever Leica camera is cute as a button.
- Don't Rely On an Unlock Pattern To Secure Your Android Phone
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
A new study found test subjects could mostly spot the patterns from five or six feet away on the first try.
- Waymo Partners With Intel, Tesla Kills a Model S, a Lawyer Debates the Trolley Problem and More This Week in the Future of Cars
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: We play a game meant for traffic engineers, Apple engineers take on self-driving, and Sebastian Thrun wears a puppy.
- Why Google Play Store Malware Is So Hard To Stop
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000
A rash of malware hit the Google Play store this summer. And while Google has taken big steps to improve Android security, there's no clear end in sight.
- HP Omen 15 Review: Decent Performance, But Man Is It Ugly
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000
The HP Omen 2015 is an unpretty beast, but it performs well enough.
- Archaeologists Don't Always Need to Dig—They've Got Drones
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000
On the morning of the solar eclipse, archaeologists took a drone into the desert to create fantastic 3-D renderings of a Hohokam village.
- With 'Star Trek: Discovery,' CBS Discovers That TV Ain't Easy Anymore
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000
By putting prequel series 'Star Trek: Discovery' on its streaming network, CBS is trying to solve a problem no one has figured out yet.
- Why Facebook And Google Are Clashing With Internet Freedom Advocates
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000
How longtime allies of Google, Facebook and co. became sometime adversaries
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