This blog entry is part of a series covering: Logging into your laptop and decrypting it automatically Encrypting and decrypting any passwords or secure info you have Sending and receiving encrypted mails Providing 2-step authentication codes for your web logins Doing all of the above on your mobile…

So, why would anybody bother to come? Transalpina road in Transylvania  ( © xalanx / Dollar Photo Club ) Just to see the same bland thing? Wooden church in Maramures  ( © drmarkuss1 / Dollar Photo Club ) Definitely, there is no reason to come to Romania! Piatra Craiului Mountains   ( © porojnicu /…

Visualizing a Black Hole A real-time simulation of the visual appearance of a Schwarzschild Black Hole. Go to live demo (this most definitely needs a modern browser with WebGL . It also works with many smartphones) Report issues Please let me know if you have any problems with the simulation, or if…

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Black line : # babies given name that year. Shaded area : # people from that year alive w/ that name as of Jan. 2018. for the current chart or look up a random popular name. Records prior to 1940 are estimates and should be taken with a grain of salt. Records after 1985 are based on Social Security…

Mark Blinch / Reuters Edward Snowden’s most famous leak has just been vindicated. Since June 2013, when he revealed that the telephone calls of Americans are being logged en masse, his critics have charged that he took it upon himself to expose a lawful secret. They insisted that Congress…

Sady Doyle May 10, 2015 Some time in the middle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, I came to terms with the fact that there will never be any more decent Marvel movies. In fact, there can’t be. Some of what I have to say is going to read as genre snobbery. So let me get this out of the way: I fucking love…

Following our successful workation from a tropical island (side note: that blog post went viral and received 30k+ visitors in the first 24 hours) late last year it shouldn’t be all that surprising that not long after we returned we were already planning another. Initially we were looking to repeat…

The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible. Over time web technologies have evolved to give web…