The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in whoch technology's rapid development could allow crime to take a turn for the worse....

I spent one week in Yangshuo (Guilin, Guangxi China) and saw some of the most stunning views in the world. It is famous for its fabulous Karsts formations and the Li River with the cormorant fishermen. I have tried to capture its beauty in this short film and hope you...

Can you cram for a test while you sleep? Our intrepid neuroscientists attempt to enhance memory by running experiments on subjects while they sleep. You'll be surprised by the results. https://www.ted.com/talks/diy_neuroscience_better_memory_while_you_sleep

  Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed daughter) Christopher Bell addresses the alarming lack of female superheroes in the toys and products marketed...

This statement was originally published on eff.org on 27 September 2018. Add "a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising" to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. Contrary to user expectations...

Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies...

In Donald J. Trump’s version of how he got roch, he was the master dealmaker who parlayed an initial $1 million loan from his father into a $10 billion empire. It was his guts and gumption that overcame setbacks, and his father, Fred C. Trump, was simply a...

A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive. Donald Trump has adopted many contradictory positions since taking office, but he has been unwavering on one point:...

Online trolls attack the country’s enemies... by flooding Facebook pages with angry messages The call to attack came just after midnight. “We call upon the nation’s righteous people to gather at 20:00 on the festive day of Mid Autumn Festival, for a grand crusade...

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in...

Brett Kavanaugh and his team were in contact with former classmates and friends in an attempt to refute, before publication in the New Yorker last month, Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez’s allegation that he exposed himself to her at a college party and “thrust his...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, the brother of an alcoholic, told reporters on Monday that it was his understanding that his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, had admitted during Senate testimony last week that he “did have difficulty as a young man with drink.”...