It’s certainly been a busy few months for Imagination. Towards the latter end of last year, we released a raft of new products and initiatives,

Photo by Steven St. John for The Washington Post When people talk about "disruptive technologies," they're usually thinking of the latest thing out of Silicon Valley. Technologies like the smartphone, the computer and the Internet have, of course, dramatically changed the ways we live and work. But…

Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model city set in the dish of the North Shore Mountains, which enclose the city and support, most days, a thick canopy of fog. There are periods in the year when it’ll rain for forty days, William Gibson…

W hat do the Volkswagen diesel scandal and the European migrant crisis have in common? They’ve both been referred to as the “tip of the iceberg.” The popular expression reflects the fact that, as impressive as the visible portion of an iceberg is, the vast majority of it (usually about 90%) is…

Scientists might have accidentally made a huge step forward in the search for a cure for cancer — discovering unexpectedly that a malaria protein could be an effective weapon against the disease. Danish researchers were hunting for a way of protecting pregnant women from malaria, which can cause…

Last year Emily Kennedy found herself sitting at an LAPD precinct. The 25-year-old wasn't in trouble—she was helping with a sting. A group of girls sat in the office waiting to be questioned. Kennedy watched as a detective casually asked one a series of questions. It was clear this wasn't an…

In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm…

The fun never ends with Adobe Flash . Just one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches for various software including Flash Player, the company confirmed a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. You read that correctly… all…

Drug Lane runs through a market in the heart of Accra, Ghana. It’s past the office towers going up to the east of the central business district, past the pushy vendors with fake Louis Vuitton luggage, and past the women selling trays of raw beef under the midday sun. The alley bristles with…

A UK-based firm has sold surveillance technology to Uganda which has been used to crush and potentially blackmail opponents of the president, according to documents seen by BBC Newsnight. An internal report claims the technology has also been used in other African countries and in Syria. The Ugandan…

Demonstrators protest against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement outside the Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill June 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If you back up your DVDs, or analyze your software to make sure it is secure, you may soon face a…

Researchers find neural switch that turns dreams on and off

Among the Bone Eaters by Marcus Baynes-Rock (Penn State University Press, September, 2015) By Chelsea Leu | Oct 9 2015 Hyenas are unpopular animals, reviled for their eerie calls and predilection for carrion. But when anthropologist Marcus Baynes-Rock traveled to the small Ethiopian town of Harar in…

Who won the Democratic debate? Depends on whether you ask pundits or people. (image: CNN ) A New York Times article ( 10/14/15 ) by Alan Rappeport about who won last night’s Democratic presidential debate reported today that “Hillary Rodham Clinton was the clear victor, according to the opinion…

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Reader Jonathan P. wrote in to ask about getting started with encryption: Specifically he wanted to know what data one should consider encrypting first. The answer depends on who you are. For the purpose of this post, I will assume you are a typical Mac geek with a job that does not deal with highly…

A shorter version of this post ran as an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on October 6, 2015. The ubiquitous blue “Like” or “Share” buttons that you see all over the Internet are hiding an ugly secret. Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays…

Users of dating apps have expressed concerns about their privacy after their matches appeared as "suggested friends" on Facebook. It's happened on apps like Tinder and Grindr and people we've spoken to have called it "creepy". "There are people whose name might just show up as 'looking',"…

Starting Afresh Thu, Mar 29, 2018 If you’re reading this, there’s a 99% chance you are coming from a search engine and you’re looking for something that’s no longer here. Let me explain why… Here’s to the sleezy marketers A few years ago, I was caught into the content marketing, building info…

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To paraphrase Rousseau, man is born free, yet everywhere he is caged. Barbed-wire, concrete walls, and gun-toting guards confine people to the nation-state of their birth. But why? The argument for open borders is both economic and moral. All people should be free to move about the earth, uncaged by…

So. Can we still do science? Is theoretical physics still possible? Oh yes, but I really would consider myself an applied mathematician. What I do is old-fashioned applied maths applied to problems: some physics, some engineering, a little bit of biology. Whatever happens to be interesting.…

A federal whistleblower investigator who put his career on the line to expose what he calls bureaucratic dysfunction has been fired, NBC Bay Area has learned. Darrell Whitman, a former San Francisco-based investigator for the Whistleblower Protection Program administered by OSHA, claimed the agency…

S tanding before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by some of the biggest names in corporate America, this mild-mannered son of an evangelist is plotting a revolution in how companies take care of injured workers. Interactive…

Photographer: Getty Images Photographer: Getty Images On a day when Democratic presidential candidates sparred in a national debate over who would do more to help indebted students, the U.S. government launched a new attack on student debtors seeking loan relief. On Tuesday, the Department of…

What it's like to write for content farms, from Brooklyn to the Philippines In the latest installment of Hopes&Fears' anonymous interview series , we spoke with two writers for content farms. These freelancers generate large amounts of text content that exist solely to promote products or brands and…

A 2006 federal law intended to make it more difficult to gamble on the Internet has, by almost any measure, been a spectacular failure. In a narrow doorway on Fifth Avenue , a short cab ride from the brand-name stores selling luxury and cachet to the wealthy, a man with the street name Mr. Gold…

A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6, 2009 (by local calendars and clocks). The launch came from the third planet out from a G-type star, 25,000 light-years from the center of a galaxy called the Milky Way,…

01. The Assassination Complex Jeremy Scahill The whistleblower who leaked the drone papers believes the public is entitled to know how people are placed on kill lists and assassinated on orders from the president. 02. A Visual Glossary Josh Begley Decoding the language of covert warfare. 03. The…

As far as Patsy Walsh, above, knew, her home was not equipped with “smart devices,” but she did have a Facebook page. “I don’t post things about myself and don’t really understand why other people do,” she said. Jason Henry for The New York Times It took the hackers less than two hours to take over…

A long exposure image showing an airplane passing in the sky during the Perseids meteor shower over the remains of a centuries old Christian basilica near the town of Pirdop, Bulgaria, early on Aug. 12. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images) “It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data,” said…

Photoillustration by Gluekit Four dead, an ever-expanding list of suspects, dozens of detectives on the case. Three years after the fact, a mysterious shooting in the French Alps has evolved into one of the most confounding, globe-spanning criminal investigations in decades CHAPTER 1: Murder In the…

Above: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JANUARY 31: Jack Dorsey accepts an award onstage at the 5th Annual Crunchies Awards at Davies Symphony Hall on January 31, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) In Square’s S-1 filing for its Initial Public Offering, chief…

Jim Petty stands in front of old antennas at a Laramie transmitting station. - Miles Bryan When 25-year-old graduate student Jordan Bishop moved into his apartment near the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, he bought a television and signed up for broadband internet. But cable? No way. “I…

Doctors have just discovered a previously unknown relationship between the long-term recovery of spinal cord injury victims and high blood pressure during their initial surgeries. This may seem like a small bit of medical news–though it will have immediate clinical implications–but what’s important…