Orchid Labs is in the process of raising $125 million for its surveillance-free layer atop the internet
Orchid Labs, a San Francisco-based startup that’s developing a a surveillance-free layer on top ...View More
New 'phone boxes' spark privacy concerns
If you live in London or Leeds, you may have already spotted one on a street corner near you.At just ...View More
Friday Night Lights is on Hulu now. You’re welcome.
Friday Night Lights, the football show that was never just about football (and one of the best shows ...View More
SmugMug acquires Flickr
Two photo-sharing services are teaming up, as SmugMug buys Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subs ...View More
How To Raise Kids Who Care About The Environment
In today’s divisive and often frightening political climate, many parents hope to raise a younger ge ...View More
Scientists discover new species of exploding ant
A new species of ant which can detonate its body when threatened has been discovered by scientists.& ...View More
Gulf Residents Deserve The Full Truth About Oil Cleanup Chemicals
TJ Johnson remembers the day he and his cousins were sprayed. Bobbing in two small boats four miles ...View More
'4,000% rise' in spread of lies by Russian bots
Online activity by Russian bots, trolls and automated accounts has increased by 4,000% in the days a ...View More
Apple has a new iPhone recycling robot named ‘Daisy’
Meet Daisy. Apple’s latest recycling robot was revealed, not coincidentally, a few days before Earth ...View More
Terrifying Tumbleweeds Take Over California City, Trapping Residents Inside Homes
A California city is under siege ― from tumbleweeds.Victorville, located about 60 miles northea ...View More
With loans of just $10, this startup has built a financial services powerhouse in emerging markets
Peris Kimeli and Betsy Cheruyot were students at Kenyatta University thinking about launching a busi ...View More
ZTE said to be meeting with Google over US export ban
Yesterday was a rough one for ZTE. A year after pleading guilty to violating sanctions with Iran and ...View More
TaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”
TaskRabbit, the on-demand errand service acquired by IKEA last year, announced today that has taken ...View More
Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward
Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usuall ...View More
The Eminem AR show
[embedded content]With the debut of his Eminem Augmented app at Coachella last night, hip hop’s ...View More
'Kremlin hacking critical national infrastructure in UK'
The Russian government is attacking critical national infrastructure in the UK and the US, security ...View More
Tony Fadell is worried about smartphone addiction
This weekend, former Apple engineer and consumer gadget legend Tony Fadell penned an op-ed for Wire ...View More
Chinese social network to end 'gay censorship'
Chinese social network Sina Weibo is to stop a planned crackdown on content related to gay issues af ...View More
The Skagen Falster is a high fashion Android wearable
Danish understatement meets Mountain View tech John Biggs 1 day Skagen is a well-k ...View More
Ethics 'must be at centre' of AI technology
The UK's first public inquiry into the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) has said ...View More
Nearly 1,400 Sharks Spotted In Mysterious Gathering Off East Coast
Nearly 1,400 basking sharks were spotted in aerial photos in a puzzling gathering off the East Coast ...View More
NASA Rocketed Human Sperm Into Space
NASA has sent samples of human sperm to the International Space Station to study ...View More
Alcohol Companies Are Funding Research To Convince You Drinking Is Healthy
Officials at the government agency tasked with studying the health effects of alcohol aggressively c ...View More
Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous ve ...View More
Elon Musk says ‘humans are underrated,’ calls Tesla’s ‘excessive automation’ a ‘mistake’
In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the ...View More
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the compan ...View More
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the compan ...View More
FYI, You Can Watch Astronauts Read Popular Kids Books From Space
If you’re looking for a way to take story time up a notch with the kids in your life, why not turn t ...View More
Is Android Popsicle next?
Barring any sort of major shakeup at Google’s mobile division, there are two things we know for sure ...View More
Businessman wins 'right to be forgotten on Google
A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" on Google has won his "unprecedented" High Co ...View More
