Hacker Gets Six Years in Jail for Blackmailing Porn Site Visitors
A former computer science student who used the moniker K!NG and made more than $900,000 scamming visitors to legal porn sites using ransomware has been sentenced to…
Category: Technology
Looks like there’s some choice Concorde jet memorabilia on eBay right now, including a few coffee cups and plates from the galley. Also: a Rolls-Royce Olympus Turbo-Jet… Read More
The internet, as a “place,” is constantly growing. We build more and more webpages every day–so many, in fact, that it can feel as if certain corners… Read More
YouTube shut down numerous chat rooms being flooded for over an hour by racist comments when thousands of people tuned into YouTube on Tuesday to watch a… Read More
Astrophysicists sometimes turn to thermal infraredtechnology to help them find and study stars. The technology’s been around for decades, and it’s constantly evolving to reveal more about… Read More
Our Astrologer Robot Is Back With Your April Horoscopes
Welcome to AIstrology. With the help of research scientist Janelle Shane, we developed a bot to generate monthly horoscopes. Its language faculties will be tweaked and trained…
A harrowing article in the New York Times this weekend has set plenty of people on edge. It details the rise of a fungal disease in hospitals… Read More
There once was an era where transportation planners believed cars zipping along highways was the sustainable future of transportation. They thought every problem could be solved by… Read More
To weary enthusiasm, Facebook announced last month it would ban white nationalists and white separatists from the social network, dissolving the company’s bizarre distinction between those ideologies… Read More
The most downloaded app in Apple Store’s China region, with over 100 million users, awards points for reading articles, taking quizzes, learning about socialist theory and watching… Read More