Science & Technology
What's Hot in Porn Tech: Blockchain, Cam Girls, and Snapchat
New technologies are helping the adult industry adjust to government regulations and give more power to performers.
This Boring British Cops Clone May Show the Future of American Mass Surveillance
Mass surveillance is up and running on Britain's roads. Will ours be next?
If You Bought Drugs on the Silk Road Using Bitcoin, the Feds Might Know Who You Are
If buying drugs online feels easy, you're probably doing it wrong.
Free Banking for Bitcoin? How the Lightning Network Could Help
How do we scale the system for broad use?
FCC Chair Throws Water on Crazy Plan for Feds to Seize Control of Our 5G Networks
No, the government shouldn't nationalize our mobile infrastructure.
No, Russians Bots Aren't Responsible for #ReleaseTheMemo
But partisan Democrats tried to use a fake news scare to quash it anyway.
Is Immortality Gendered?
Therapies that slow and even reverse aging will be a tremendous boon for both women and men.
Tomi Lahren Thinks Tons of Teens Really Are Eating Tide Pods, Blames Liberals
Parents aren't neglecting to keep their kids safe from laundry detergent. If anything, teens are overprotected.
FakeApp: Finally, a Program that Will Let You Seamlessly Put Donald Trump in Porn!
Fake news just took a giant step forward. Here's why that's good news.
Dianne Feinstein Ignores GOP Lawmakers, Blames #ReleaseTheMemo on Russians and Social Media Instead
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
Regulations Prevent Some People from Using Google Arts & Culture's Portrait-Matching Feature
Illinois and Texas think biometric identifiers are a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Government Will Protect Us From Bad Speech? That's the Fakest News of All.
When government officials suppress critics, they do so only to help themselves.
Your Social Media Post Does Not Have To Be Socially Useful
Critics of free speech use the same old arguments on new technologies.
Playboy Sues Boing Boing Over Link to Playboy Centerfolds
Boing Boing has filed a motion to dismiss.
U.S. Marshals Will Auction $52 Million of Bitcoin Seized Through Asset Forfeiture
More than 3,800 Bitcoin will be auctioned on January 22, including those taken from vendors on cryptomarkets like SilkRoad and AlphaBay.
Donald Trump: Energy Crony
Nearly a year into his term, it's clear the president intends to flood the bog with energy mandates and subsidies.
Major Computer Chip Bugs Show the Need for Open Security Research
Have you heard about "Meltdown" and "Spectre"? Here's what you need to know.
Is Bitcoin the Death of Fiat Currency?: Podcast
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Facts Matter After All
Studies debunk the claim that we live in post-fact, post-truth world.
Public Ignorance and GMO Foods
Fear of GMO foods is an example of the broader problem of political and scientific ignorance.
GMO Opponents Are Immoral, Argues Purdue University President Mitch Daniels
It's past time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.
Seattle Bans Landlords From Screening "Qualified" Tenants
The city's goal is to curb "unconscious bias." But the policy is based on dangerous premises, and is likely to harm tenants more than it benefits them.
Pentagon Investigates UFO Sightings and an Interstellar Visitor Zips Through Solar System
Survey finds 47 percent of people believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe.
Is Bitcoin in a Bubble, or Is It Massively Undervalued?
Evaluating the current cycle of buzz
Breaking News Before Local Cops Do Lands Laredo Vlogger With Felony Charges
Sharing arrest and accident info on Facebook before cops can tell "official" media is not OK, say Laredo police-and nevermind that one of their own was the source.
Justices Alito and Gorsuch Clash Over Cellphones, Privacy, and Property Rights
Oral arguments in Carpenter v. U.S. reveal a division between two conservative justices.
Government Is the Cause of—Not the Solution to—Online Censorship
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
Venezuelan Bitcoin Miners Must Register With the Government
Will a new regulatory framework help stop extortion and police abuse, or will it set the stage for a brutal crackdown?
Posting or Hosting Sex Ads Could Mean 25 Years in Federal Prison Under New Republican Proposal
A related measure would open digital platforms to liability for past crimes committed by users.
Bitcoin Confuses Alan Greenspan
Mainstream economists were trained to believe that currencies need to be managed by central banks. So this new form of money is...hard to grasp.
You Don't Lose Your Right to Anonymity Just Because You Lost a Lawsuit
An appeals court defends anonymous speech.
Cops Brag That They Bullied a Woman Out of Town After a Neighbor Said She Sells Sex
An investigation would've taken months, so Larksville Police decided to skip that part.
Read Why People Are Giving Reason Donations as Large as $75,000 in Bitcoin!
Notes from satisfied and/or snarky customers, and a last-ditch attempt to loosen some of your crypto-riches!
No, the FCC Isn't 'Overturning Net Neutrality'
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
The Winners in the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Will Be Consumers
The DOJ fundamentally misunderstands the market for access and content.
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Are Brain Implants to Control Moods Ethical?
If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.
Bitcoin Sends Elite Economists Into Glorious Fits of Confusion
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Markets Deliver Social Justice Better Than Government Does
Elizabeth Nolan Brown argues in The New York Times that we can thank "feminism, but also free markets" for the ongoing purge of predatory men.
Trump Administration Lawyer Pummeled by Sotomayor and Gorsuch in Cellphone Tracking Case
"Most Americans, I think, still want to avoid Big Brother."
Today at SCOTUS: Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking vs. the Fourth Amendment
What's at issue today in Carpenter v. United States.
