Facial recognition is cropping up everywhere. From shopping malls to the workplace, it’s likely something is scanning your face every day. But rather than invade your privacy, facial recognition on smartphones is supposed to protect your digital life from snoops. If you’re an Android customer,…

Das dänische Regierungslager zieht in den Wahlkampf mit der Entscheidung, „kriminelle Ausländer“ auf einer kleinen Insel zu internieren, die bisher zur Erforschung von Tierseuchen dient. Gegen diesen Plan mit extrem brutaler Symbolik haben mehr als zehntausend Bürger in Kopenhagen und anderen…

It was a genius marketing stunt that went viral. Was it a hoax? By · 3/29/2017, 10:22 a.m. Print Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! We got this picture on Monday, so it was taken way before Tuesday’s storm. Photo via…

Anybody got a light? Alexas_Fotos/Public Domain Drug scares are a dimebag a dozen, but the hysteria surrounding fake drugs is always fascinating to behold. Even today, mythical ways of getting high, from the gross-out nonsense that was Jenkem to the digital absurdity of “ i-dosing ,” are still…

The middle of the West Texas desert isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a fully stocked Prada store, but stop a few miles outside of the tiny town of Valentine, Texas and you’ll find just that. Top Places in Texas Houston, Texas Beer Can House Beer lover's can-covered house. 29.7638, -95.4190…

This talk covering the history of clip art was originally given on July 16, 2018 at SalesLoft . This article is an adaptation of my presentation. If you were in school during the 90s or early 2000s, you’re familiar with the fun, quirky graphics that came bundled with Microsoft Office. That’s right.…

Deutschland, das sind saubere Straßen und rote Ampeln. Fahrradwege mit präzise gezogenen Spuren. Deutschland, das sind Stolpersteine vor den Häusern, deren mattes Messing die Bürgersteige in eine friedvoll-bedrückte Stimmung hüllt – ein bisschen Holocaust. Die Opfer des Holocaust sind die Einzigen,…

There are plenty of dead words in languages all over the world, but can the same be said about ghost words? Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and 100 yūrei-moji — literally, “ghost characters” — haunting the Japanese kanji lexicon. Though…

This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. Eric Wooldridge is a Systems Specialist at Morris Hospital near Chicago. During the installation of a new GE Healthcare MRI machine, he started getting calls that cell phones weren’t working. Then, some Apple Watches started glitching. “My…

Endlich, endlich, endlich, die Bild hat es geschafft. Der größte Traum des deutschen Journalismus, für sie ist er in Erfüllung gegangen: Die Bild hat Hitler interviewt.

Netflix used its third quarter earnings report to criticize the European Union over a new content quota for streaming services.

There’s a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation known as libssh that makes it trivial for just about anyone to gain unfettered administrative control of a vulnerable server. While the authentication-bypass flaw represents a major security hole that should be patched immediately, it…

$1,200. That’s how much someone is asking for a PlayStation Network account I’ve been investigating for the past few weeks. “Secure,” the person calls it, claiming the account will “never be touched” by the original owner again. “He won't be getting it back,” they claim. More than a thousand…

Japan's Osaka city has ended its "sister city" ties with San Francisco over the display of a statue depicting women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.

Microsoft is currently running an interesting set of hardware experiments. The company is taking a souped-up shipping container stuffed full of computer servers and submerging it in the ocean. The most recent round is taking place near Scotland’s Orkney Islands, and involves a total of 864 standard…

AFP Sex ist wie Rauchen: Es geht allein, zu zweit oder zu mehreren - trotzdem sollte man niemandem ungefragt die Kippe in den Mund stecken. Ähnliches gilt beim Geschlechtsverkehr - womit manche Medien aber ein Problem haben. Kolumne Einer landläufigen Meinung zufolge sind Feministinnen diejenigen,…

On June 30, a spam article was posted to WikiTribune , Jimmy Wales’ news startup that argued “news is broken and we can fix it.” “International Airport Escort service In Mumbai,” it read. “I Provide Good Quality Educated Profile At Very Low 100% Safe And Original. 100 % Satisfied Guaranteed (Age-…

Susan Kare’s icons and fonts for the original Macintosh were revolutionary. They gave a lifeless computer a warmth and personality that lives on in the modern Mac to this day. This month Susan Kare was awarded an AIGA medal , putting her in the company of design greats like Paul Rand , Charles and…

The Stone If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is Galenus, Avicenna and Hippocrates pictured in a 16th-century medical book. Credit