Apple's popular iMessages as used on an iPad. Robert S. Donovan Patent troll VirnetX, fresh on the heels of a $626 million FaceTime and iMessages patent victory over Apple, now wants a federal judge to permanently turn off those popular features. VirnetX on Wednesday also asked the judge presiding…

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is the "dictator" of "the biggest nation in the world", the co-founder of file sharing site The Pirate Bay, told CNBC on Friday, as he denounced the centralization of power on the internet. Speaking during an interview at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, Peter…

Someone alerts you to exposed, unencrypted patient information on your FTP server. Is the correct response to thank them profusely or try to have them charged as a criminal hacker? It is not a trick question. Once again, a security researcher has found himself facing possible prosecution under a…

A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy. If passed, the change would expand…

Of all the great and terrible things about the internet, its ability to shape and rewrite reality might be the most dystopian. History is written by the victors, and every day it looks like the losers are humanity and meaning. In the Metal Gear Solid series, a collection of sinister artificial…

Pain is important. It triggers the appropriate response to prevent even greater injuries or even to save your life. A couple of German researchers think so too, so they're working on a way to make robots "feel" -- or, more accurately, to detect and respond to -- pain. That way, they can move away…

For meerkats, being just a tad larger could mean living longer and getting the chance to mate. Photograph by Elise Huchard Meerkats are icons of cooperation. These mask-eyed mongooses, so beloved of natural history documentaries , live in colonies of up to 50 that groom each other, keep watch for…

Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock House Republicans yesterday released a plan to slash the Federal Communications Commission's budget by $69 million and prevent the FCC from enforcing net neutrality rules, "rate regulation," and its plan to boost competition in the set-top box market. The proposal is the…

Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street Journal reports , Facebook will use cookies, "like" buttons, and other plug-ins embedded on third-party…

SAN FRANCISCO—A federal jury found Google’s use of Oracle Corp.’s Java software in its mobile products didn’t violate copyright law, a verdict cheered by many in Silicon Valley who believe it will protect how they write and use software. Thursday’s decision, which Oracle said it would appeal, marked…

IN THE hours outside his dreary day job, the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) dreamt of a world where work meant play and where the seas would transform into “a sort of lemonade”. He believed that the passions should be set free: the ideal workforce would be intensely attracted both to…

Derek Walter In so many ways, Google is the modern equivalent of Microsoft. It makes a operating system used by the majority of the market, running on an array of hardware from many vendors. It’s powerful, ubiquitous–and the target of dislike and rage from many people who love Apple products. Now, I…

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Mars is emerging from an ice age, according to a new study . Studying the Martian climate and how it changes over time can help scientists better plan future missions to Mars and even understand climate change here on Earth, the study authors say. Models had already predicted that Mars underwent…

In February 1990, thanks to a 15-year-old boy named Bruno Kowalsczewski, footsteps echoed through the chambers of Bruniquel Cave for the first time in tens of thousands of years. The cave sits in France’s scenic Aveyron Valley, but its entrance had long been sealed by an ancient rockslide.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They're still using floppy disks at the Pentagon. In a report released Wednesday, nonpartisan congressional investigators found…

“As an American citizen, I am licensed to obtain, collect, sell and transfer 60 pounds of natural uranium ore per year,” says Richard Hull . He received his first chemistry set in 1957 and as a kid in the ’50s collected the nuclear bomb test ash that fell in rain and landed in the roof drain pipes…

PRINCETON – Last month, AlphaGo, a computer program specially designed to play the game Go, caused shockwaves among aficionados when it defeated Lee Sidol, one of the world’s top-ranked professional players, winning a five-game tournament by a score of 4-1. Why, you may ask, is that news? Twenty…

Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute claim to have hatched a bipartisan consensus plan for reducing poverty . As exciting as that sounds, the details of the plan, unfortunately, won't be available until David Brooks unveils them at an event on December 3rd. Nonetheless, it's clear from…

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The advertisements were tailored for Chinese college students far from home, struggling with the English language and an unfamiliar culture. Coaching services peppered the students with emails and chat messages in Chinese, offering to help foreign students at U.S. colleges do much…

Greg Stearns, left, and Tim Marcia of the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division. Dan Winters for Wired O ne afternoon in January of 2012, a Los Angeles dog walker named Lauren Kornberg was taking a stroll through Griffith Park with her mother and nine canines. They were wending their way through Bronson…

Conversational Banking: From Branches to Bots As chat platforms and bots replace browsers and apps, the way we access bank services will change. This is a good thing. Jake Tyler Mar 6, 2016 Bank by ‘chat’; coming soon to a bank near you It’s Christmas 2015 and I am in Delhi for my friend’s wedding.…

Hervé Falciani, who took client data from H.S.B.C., was indicted in Switzerland, jailed in Spain, and celebrated in France. Photograph by Moises Saman / Magnum for The New Yorker A few days before Christmas in 2008, Hervé Falciani was in a meeting at his office, in Geneva, when a team of police…

The world's largest entertainment company doesn't make its own video games anymore. Disney — the folks behind "Star Wars," Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, everything Marvel, ESPN, and hundreds of other iconic characters — believes that the better option is to license its incredibly successful properties…

Human Genome wall for SC99 The cure for type 2 diabetes may be all in your head, a new study in rats and mice suggests. With a single shot to the brain, researchers can rid rodents of all symptoms of the disease for months. The injection, a relatively low dose of a tissue growth factor protein…

‘Ignoring data in favor of ‘spinning’ scientific results can cause irreparable harm.’Photograph: Ralph Lee Hopkins/National Geographic/Getty Creative/Getty Images At Wednesday’s ExxonMobil shareholders meeting, CEO Rex Tillerson will have to answer tough questions about the company’s role in causing…

E ver since the EU restricted sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs, homeowners have complained about the shortcomings of their energy-efficient replacements. The clinical white beam of LEDs and frustrating time-delay of ‘green’ lighting has left many hankering after the instant, bright warm…

If there ever was a place that could throw a three-hour party for the grand opening of a parking garage , it's LA. When West Hollywood's new three-story automated parking garage is unveiled on May 24, there will be DJs, tours, refreshments, and speeches from government officials. Ironically, parking…

Duncan Jones, the director of “Warcraft.” Credit Jake Michaels for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — You could see “Warcraft” as just one more entry in the arms race of summer movies. Adapted from the popular video game series , the film (which Universal will release on June 10) depicts the…

Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post . Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the…

How a Chinese billionaire’s dream of making an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco. The script called for an epic battle. In the movie’s third act, the forces of the Eight Faery Kingdoms defend their aquatic empires from annihilation by the evil Demon Mage and his…

An attendee walks past a sculpture during the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, CaliforniaPhotograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters Google will begin testing an alternative to passwords next month, in a move that could do away with complicated logins for good. The new feature, introduced…

Advertisement Illustration: John MacNeill Submitted to a NASA competition for students, the design for this electric aircraft had to meet certain requirements, the most important of which was that it could be manufactured within five years. If you fly one of today’s small piston-powered planes, you…

News By: Posted: May 24, 2016 10:48 AM EDT Updated: May 24, 2016 10:48 AM EDT Photo Credit: MGN Copyright by WTEN - All rights reserved Photo Credit: MGN (WFLA) - It's irresistible, enticing and addicting. And, it's available 24-hours a day all over the world to billions of people. Facebook beckons…

Nature | News Sharing Radioactive decay anomaly could imply a new fundamental force, theorists say. Edwin Cartlidge Updated: 17 August 2016 Article tools Rights & Permissions MTA-Atomki Physicists at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary, say this apparatus — an electron-positron…

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Take a Number A scanning electron micrograph of fecal microbes. Estimates of the number of microbial species continue to grow. Credit David Scharf/ Science Source According to a new estimate, there are about one trillion species of microbes on Earth, and 99.999 percent of them have yet to be…

Image: Vaclav Mach / Shutterstock Step aside with your claims to long legacies, craft breweries! This reconstructed beer recipe is over 5,000 years old. It’s the earliest beer recipe—and the earliest known use of barley—in China. Archaeologists at Stanford University, while digging along China’s Wei…

Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma…