4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1547+ words) Online privacy in the U. S. is shrinking. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act still risks torrenting users. ISPs throttle bandwidth during streaming or torrenting. Increased surveillance from government and corporations raises privacy concerns. VPNs help by masking IPs and encrypting traffic, making…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1199+ words) With mobile devices, remote work and public Wi-Fi networks integral to daily life, virtual private networks (VPNs) have become a familiar part of public discussion. VPNs promise a way to reclaim control over one's private data. Amid growing concerns about…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1100+ words) Salon. com AI-enabled pets are here. Does anyone want them? Roomba inventor Colin Angle wants humans to embrace AI pets. His fuzzy sales pitch is why it might not work The Familiar, an AI-enabled domestic companion, is neither cat nor…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (112+ words) Nuclear power plants are becoming targets of war. This is how close we are to a moment the world has not seen since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945: a nuclear incident caused by active warfare. The global artificial…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (279+ words) On Dec. 24, 2025, Angela Lipps, a Tennessee grandmother, was released after spending five months in jail because facial recognition software had incorrectly connected her to fraud crimes in North Dakota, a state she had never visited. Police had arrested her at…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (588+ words) For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. The calculations done by scientists at IRIS, as it was commonly known, underpin vast numbers of chemical regulations, permits…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1709+ words) Kevin Heath had hoped there would be solar panels by now on his family farm in southeastern Michigan, roughly 50 miles outside Detroit. About six years ago, he agreed to lease part of his land for a solar project. It would…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (317+ words) The scientists watching this schism aren't sure why things became so belligerent. It started with members from one group chasing the other and prolonged periods of avoidance. As polarization increased, so did the aggression, eventually becoming lethal. Over the years,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (993+ words) On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors" Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car"s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where you"re going, who"s with…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (295+ words) After 9 days and 21 hours, NASA's Artemis astronauts safely returned to Earth late Friday, April 10, splashing down in the ocean after completing the latest phase of the agency's renewed push toward the moon. The crew traveled aboard the Orion capsule (that…...