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How Match.com Has Helped Us Hook Up And Find Love Since 1995
Twenty years ago, in the San Francisco neighborhood then called Multimedia Gulch, a state-of-the-art server from Sun Microsystems began to run a program that would one day lead to more than a million...
View ArticleHow Apple's Ad-blocking Software Could Put Small Publishers Out Of Business
As the debate over online ad blocking heats up with the arrival of iOS 9, experts say the biggest casualties of the online ad war may be small publishers and bloggers with few alternative revenue...
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The Russian Ex-Con And The Bitcoin-Powered Investment With "100%" Returns
Bitcoin prices have risen dramatically over the past month, but international regulators and bitcoin exchange operators warn that one investment opportunity involving the digital currency is likely too...
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How Dialing 1-900 In The '90s Foreshadowed The Internet
As America cruised into the 1990s, phones were no longer just for calling friends and family. Startups were harnessing new technology to turn them into tools for checking sports scores and playing...
View ArticleMaking Sure Deleted Data Is Really, Truly Gone
In a study released last month, secure data management firms Kroll Ontrack and Blancco Technology Group found that in a set of used hard drives bought online, nearly half came with data left behind by...
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How To Design An Escape Room
Imagine being locked in a roomful of strangers, where the only exit has been hidden by a raving mad scientist who's muttering half-incomprehensible clues under his breath. It sounds like the start of a...
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How Rikers Inmates And Columbia Students Built A Twitter Bot--With No Internet
Not long ago, a team from Columbia University set out to build an automated Twitter bot in a place with no Internet access—part of a 12-hour class for people with no prior programming experience. They...
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FBI Renews Warnings on Terror and Encryption, With No Clear Solution in Sight
In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks, a long-simmering debate over the security risks of terrorists using encryption has come to a boil. Speaking before Congress last week, FBI...
View ArticleFiorina: I Helped The NSA When They Needed Computing Power After 9/11
During Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate, candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina proudly recalled getting a phone call from the National Security Agency shortly after the...
View ArticleFiorina Claims Feds Haven't Asked Silicon Valley For Encryption Help ... But...
Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina claimed in Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate that the Obama Administration hasn't asked big tech companies for help circumventing encryption in...
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A "Sad Day" For Brazil Says Zuckerberg, As WhatsApp Blockade Disrupts Millions
A judge in Brazil has ordered cell phone carriers to block access to the calling and texting service WhatsApp for 48 hours beginning early Thursday morning, after the company reportedly failed to...
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Instagram Hack Reveals The Risks Of Bug Bounty Programs
A security researcher who discovered vulnerabilities in an Instagram server apparently traded barbs this week with Instagram parent Facebook's chief security officer over whether his explorations of...
View ArticleNot So Kawaii! Researcher Reports More Than 3M Hello Kitty Fans Exposed In...
Data on more than 3 million users of HelloKitty.com and other sites related to the popular character was exposed to the Internet through an insecure database, Austin-based security researcher Chris...
View ArticleGoogle Is Working On A New Chat App And AI Chat Companions: Report
Google is planning a new messaging app and a host of artificial intelligence-powered services that will be accessible through it, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.Nick Fox, the...
View ArticleFacebook "Free Basics" Curtailed in India Over Net Neutrality Dispute
Indian telecom regulators have reportedly halted Facebook's "Free Basics" mobile Internet service, formerly known asInternet.org, over net neutrality concerns.The controversial program allows mobile...
View ArticleResearchers Say The Juniper Hack Could Be The Work Of Government--But Which One?
As researchers uncover more about two vulnerabilities recently patched in some Juniper Networks firewalls, the security community continues to speculate about who inserted what Juniper called...
View ArticleChipotle Overhauls Food Safety Protocols After Outbreaks
Chipotle Mexican Grill is introducing a new food safety program amid reports that a series of food poisoning outbreaks have driven customers away.A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday showed that...
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Are Boston Dynamics' Robot Reindeer The Ghosts Of Christmas Future?
The Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics delivered a unique holiday greeting this week: a video of the company's robots pulling a (human) Santa in a sleigh.The company develops robots for the...
View ArticleMIT's New Blockchain Project Enigma Wants To Let You Share Your Data On Your...
A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology project could soon bring much greater flexibility to cloud data sharing—potentially helping companies analyze consumer data without giving employees access...
View ArticleT-Mobile "Binge On" Video Streaming Program Accused Of Throttling Traffic To...
YouTube says that T-Mobile is throttling traffic to YouTube as part of the mobile provider's new "Binge On" video streaming program—even though YouTube isn't part of the program, according to the Wall...
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