Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight

Sep 22, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology, U.S.

An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as …

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SEC says hackers may have traded using stolen insider information

Sep 21, 2017 | Science & Technology, Top Stories

The top U.S. markets regulator said on Wednesday that hackers accessed its corporate disclosure database and may have illegally profited by trading on the insider …

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Shock Tactics | Part 4: The garage science behind the stun gun that changed policing

Sep 21, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology, U.S.

Part 4: Taser International won over police by touting research it said was as rigorous as FDA-style testing. But its claims about its early studies …

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Scientists edit embryos’ genes to study early human development

Sep 20, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology

British scientists have used a genome editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out a gene in embryos just a few days old, testing the …

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Cassini spacecraft ends 13-year Saturn odyssey by burning into planet

Sep 15, 2017 | Science & Technology

U.S. space agency NASA received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge …

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Fiery farewell to cap Cassini spacecraft’s 13-year Saturn mission

Sep 15, 2017 | Science & Technology, Top Stories

U.S. space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will end its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, …

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Face-reading AI will be able to detect your politics and IQ

Sep 14, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology

Professor whose study suggested technology can detect whether a person is gay or straight says programs will soon reveal traits such as criminal predisposition

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SNOWDEN ARCHIVE: THE SIDTODAY FILES

Sep 13, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology

SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate.

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Apple’s Face ID security technology may not prove popular with consumers

Sep 13, 2017 | Science & Technology

Apple presented a facial recognition system as a way for users to unlock the newly unveiled iPhone X, but such security measures may not prove …

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U.S., Russian crew transfer to space station after Soyuz flight

Sep 13, 2017 | Science & Technology

Two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, about six hours after their Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from …

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Apple unveils iPhone X in major product launch

Sep 12, 2017 | Business, Science & Technology, Top Stories

Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive …

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Spectacular Northern Light display illuminates Finnish sky

Sep 8, 2017 | Science & Technology

Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday.

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Startup Making Virtual People Who Look and Act Impossibly Real

Sep 7, 2017 | Science & Technology, Top Stories

Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano

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Wary of robots taking jobs, Hawaii toys with guaranteed pay

Sep 5, 2017 | Business, Science & Technology, Top Stories

Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.

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Record-breaking U.S. astronaut and crew back on Earth

Sep 3, 2017 | Science & Technology, Top Stories

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two crewmates made a parachute touchdown in Kazakhstan on Saturday, capping a career-total 665 days in orbit, a U.S. record.

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GOOGLE-FUNDED THINK TANK FIRED GOOGLE CRITICS AFTER THEY DARED CRITICIZE GOOGLE

Sep 3, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology

THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION’S Open Markets group was a rare, loud voice of protest against Google’s ever-growing consolidation of economic and technological power around the …

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India’s eighth navigation satellite implodes on take off

Sep 1, 2017 | Science & Technology

India’s eighth navigation satellite imploded shortly after lift off on Thursday, state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

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U.S. House to vote on self-driving car legislation next week

Aug 31, 2017 | Politics, Science & Technology

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states …

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Famed T. rex ‘Sue’ getting a makeover at Field Museum in Chicago

Aug 30, 2017 | Science & Technology

The world’s biggest T. rex is getting ready for a cutting-edge makeover.

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U.S. spacecraft readies for fiery plunge into Saturn after 13-year mission

Aug 30, 2017 | Science & Technology

The U.S. space agency’s Cassini spacecraft will end its 13-year mission to Saturn in mid-September by transmitting data until the final moment before it plunges …

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Look for Military Drones to Begin Replacing Police Helicopters by 2025

Aug 30, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology

General Atomics is working hard to put a close cousin of its Reaper anti-terrorism drone in the hands of local law enforcement.

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Uber to end post-trip tracking of riders as part of privacy push

Aug 29, 2017 | Science & Technology, Top Stories

Uber Technologies Inc is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a …

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California passed a law boosting police transparency on cellphone surveillance. Here’s why it’s not working

Aug 29, 2017 | Featured, Science & Technology, U.S.

Several years ago, little was known about the StingRay, a powerful surveillance device that imitates the function of a cell tower and captures the signals …

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HIT APP SARAHAH QUIETLY UPLOADS YOUR ADDRESS BOOK

Aug 28, 2017 | Science & Technology

SARAHAH, A NEW APP that lets people sign up to receive anonymized, candid messages, has been surging in popularity; somewhere north of 18 million people …

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