Stories by fortran77

Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them

Clamshell plastic packaging is a recycling nightmare

Living in Alan Turing's Future

From Washington state to Wash. DC, lawmakers rush to regulate facial recognition

Ben Burtt Describes How He Did Sound Design for Wall-E

Gambling in a Time of Despair

It's Time to Pay for Social Media

Tyler Cowan on “The Economic Policy of Elizabeth Warren”

Two Gardeners Discovered a Stolen $66M Gustav Klimt Inside a Gallery Wall

How the ‘Sharing’ Economy Erodes Both Privacy and Trust

Albany Airport pays hackers ransom, regains data from computers

Reinventing the computer: Brain-inspired computing for a post-Moore's Law era

EFF Asks SCOTUS to Stop Broad Interpretations of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

U.S. Army Hacked by 52 Hackers in Five Weeks

The Brand-Confused World of IMAX and “LieMAX”

Guitar Made of 106 iPhones

A “new” Amazon waffle maker came with an old crusty-looking waffle already in it

Real 3D or Fake 3D

Humans Can Probably Hibernate

Comcast settles lying allegations, will issue refunds and cancel debts