Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror), notorious hacker who collab'd with Snowden and Wikileaks, Steps Down from the Tor Project Amid Sexual Assault/Harassment Allegations

The End of Prison Visitation

This "Tinder for stoners" app is hemorrhaging unencrypted data like smoking habits and current location for hackers or police to scrub up. Happy 4/20!

Prince was an internet pioneer who hated the state of digital media, built his own online subscription services, fought the EFF and was the first artist to release and internet-exclusive album

The cheap scientific breakthrough CRISPR gene editing has even more benefits than previously thought

A vast study shows 71% of people want to "shut down" the entire deep web — which is totally absurd, nearly impossible and probably illegal

Googling Candidates' Names Now Exposes All Their Campaign Funding Data, Right There In Search

President Obama calls on tech industry to make online voting systems a reality — which could be a nightmare if elections are hackable

Justice Antonin Scalia was actually good for technology — sided with video games and Aereo, sided against police surveillance tools like GPS trackers and heat scanners

Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online

A Viral Study Suggests Bacon Is Better for the Environment Than Lettuce — But It's Wrong

Congress' New Budget for NASA Is Huge — And Secretly Contains a Hated Spying Bill

Swatting Could Soon Be Illegal

According to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, women who participated in the experiment became sexually aroused in response to stimulating images of attractive females — whether they were heterosexual or not.

Scientists Just Spotted Something in Space That "an Alien Civilization Might Build"

A recent study investigated which items serve as the drugs of the food world, and pizza topped the "addictive" list.

The Disturbing Reason This 20-Year-Old Calculator Is Still on Every Student's Desk

Why Graphing Calculators Still Cost So Much

Apple Suddenly Banned an App That Maps U.S. Drone Strikes

New Science Appears to Confirm a Theory That Could Reveal the Origin of All Life

A 20 year old dutch kid has invented a machine to clean up the worlds oceans on a large scale.

It's Right About Time for a Massive Solar Storm To Hit Earth

A Team of Biohackers Has Figured Out How to Inject Your Eyeballs With Night Vision

NASA: The US Faces a "Mega-Drought" Not Seen in 1,000 Years

Congress Just Gave One of the Most Important Science Jobs to a Senator Who Denies Science

There is a suicide epidemic in Utah and one neuroscientist thinks he knows why

Brain Scans Reveal What Dogs Really Think of Us

Scientists Have Discovered Why Magic Mushrooms Are So 'Magical': New research results indicate that psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, facilitates increased connectivity in the human brain

Scientists Have Created Crystals That Make Breathing Underwater a Reality

Science Reveals Something Surprising About Metal Fans and Classical Music Lovers (X-post music)

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