The South Korean Artist Who Smuggles Internet Culture Across The DMZ
Kyungah Ham has commissioned embroidery pieces based on slang and South Korean culture from black-market artisans in North Korea. Since 2008, Korean artist Kyungah Ham has worked on a series of massive...
View ArticleU.S.-Backed Efforts To Promote Openness And Democracy Are At Risk In The Age...
The Open Tech Fund spends millions to fund tools that support freedom of information and democracy. What happens now is anybody’s guess. Secure, online communication has gone mainstream since the...
View ArticleHow The Feds Plan To Respond To A Hack On The Electric Grid
BAE Systems has signed a $8.6 million contract to develop tools that could get power grid networks back online fast after a hack Experts have long warned that the nation’s power grid is potentially...
View ArticleA Year Later, The Tech Team Behind The Panama Papers Continues To Help Break...
It was “the biggest leak in the history of data journalism.” International Consortium of Investigative Journalists head of data & research Mar Cabra speaks about what worked and didn’t work from a...
View ArticleThis Startup Will Make It Easier To Brag You Own A Picasso
Arthena opens art world to Joe Investor by applying data science and expert assessment to a series of modern finance funds. Picasso paintings have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in recent...
View ArticleCloudflare Shores Up Defenses For Internet Of (Easily Hackable) Things
Security firm Cloudflare is turning its attention to the growing threat presented by the world’s vast population of connected devices. Security experts have long warned that the connected devices that...
View ArticleWhy Even Our Water Supply Is Not Safe From Hackers
Cybersecurity firms are helping shore up poorly guarded industrial control systems in power grids, water treatment plants, and factories. There’s been a lot of attention lately on the U.S. “mother of...
View ArticleThis Program Gets Rural Schools Online. Will It Survive Trump’s FCC?
E-Rate has helped 77% of U.S. schools get broadband service, improving the educational opportunities for kids everywhere—particularly in poor and rural areas. But its future is uncertain. Earlier this...
View ArticleWe Can’t Always Track Airplanes. A Satellite Giant Aims To Change That
Three years after the mystery of MH370, sat-phone pioneer Iridium is betting that its network can avoid future disappearances and make flight paths more efficient. The search for Malaysia Airlines...
View ArticleMark Cuban’s “Dave” Spots You No-Interest Loans To Avoid...
Insane bank charges could become a thing of the past with fintech app Dave, which analyzes spending patterns, predicts checking shortfalls—and covers them. To borrow a word Donald Trump used while...
View ArticleHow Do Teens With Limited Internet Apply To College?
Education groups are trying to level the college-application playing field by providing helpful apps, centralized forms, and advice via text to kids who don’t have home internet. Nowadays, students...
View Article“It Was Chaos”: Here’s How Ransomware Victims Were Affected...
The WannaCry attack impacted people around the world, from hospital patients to university students. These are some of their stories. “It was chaos,” a receptionist working the night shift at Jakarta’s...
View ArticleWannaCrypt Hackers May Have A Hard Time Claiming That Ransom Without Getting...
Though bitcoin’s anonymity makes it popular, hackers may find it impossible to collect the $70,000 collected so far without leaving a trail behind them. As organizations around the world continue to...
View ArticleWhy Yahoo Thinks It May Be Time To Blow Up Your Inbox
We’re using email for e-comm and couponing more than ever—and Yahoo’s experimental CardMail client aims to make better sense of the daily deluge. How we use email has changed a lot since the ’90s, but...
View ArticleDespite French Election Setback, Russian Hackers Still Hungry For More Attacks
There’s no sign that Fancy Bear has slowed down or changed tactics since the recent elections, say cybersecurity experts. Fancy Bear may have stumbled in the French election but they’re still wreaking...
View ArticleWhy Is Access To Public Records Still So Frustratingly Complicated?
Even with the Freedom of Information Act, requesting government records remains an arduous process—especially compared to the efficiency of the legal world. Earlier this month, House Oversight...
View ArticleThanks To Telepresence Robots, Kids Can Attend School From Home
The internet-enabled machines can help kids feel connected to their classmates when they can’t be in school for extended periods. Even field trips are possible. Earlier this year, 11-year-old Cloe Gray...
View ArticleHow The DNC (And RNC) Are Preparing For The Inevitable Next Cyberattack
It’s been six months since the election, and the Democratic National Committee finally seems to be taking cybersecurity seriously. It’s been six months since a presidential election roiled by Russian...
View ArticleThese MIT Grads Want To Let Anyone Invest In, Or Even Start, A Bitcoin Fund
Cryptocurrency can be intimidating, but a new platform called Catalyst would enable investors to build their own investment funds. In recent months, the prices of virtual currencies bitcoin and...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Robots: What The Future Holds For The World’s Armies
Beyond the already deployed human-controlled drone fleets, military engineers are already tinkering with lethal AI-driven autonomous battlefield bots. Judging solely by science fiction, military robots...
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