The Apple Watch Will Make the Wrists of the Super Rich Look A Lot More Like Yours and Mine
The new watch from Cupertino will help reduce income inequality in the way that really matters.
Science & Technology
Why Conservatives Should Fight for Death Penalty Drug Transparency
Capital punishment fails the "conservative litmus test."
Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
Could Automation Be Labor Unions' Death Knell?
Automation needn't be scary for workers, but for traditional unions, the robot future may hold a different fate.
The Blockchain: A Supercomputer for Reality
"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."
The Battle for Death Penalty Transparency
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
Netflix May Already Regret Its Support for the FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules
The agency's new Internet rules will only make the Web worse.
What If Someone Crossed the Razor-Blades-in-Halloween-Candy Rumor with the Injecting-Babies-with-AIDS Rumor?
Decoding a Vietnamese urban legend
These Glasses Can Thwart Facial Recognition Software
In an age of ever-increasing surveillance, one simple technology could help protect your privacy.
Study Confirms That E-Cigarettes Generate Virtually No Toxins
Levels are about the same as those found in air.
More Efficient Photosynthesis Transferred From Corn Into Rice: Could Boost Yields 50 Percent
Malthusian doomsters foiled again.
Is Psychiatry All Better Now?
Gary Greenberg argues just throwing out Freud doesn't cure psychiatry of its ills.
Cody Wilson, Pioneer of Homemade 3D Printed Guns, Calls Out Another Company For Refusing to Do Business with Him
Offers $15,000 Bounty for Anyone Who Can Deliver Him a MarkForged carbon-fiber 3D Printer.
Government War on Online Vice Purchasing is a Continuing War on Citizen Safety
The shutdown of sex-sales site Redbook made life more ignorant and dangerous.
Let Slip the Robots of War
Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.
Regulatory Robophobia
We don't need a federal commission to govern things that go beep in the night.
The Robot Revolution Is Here
They're sweeping my floors, watching my kids, and stealing my job. Here's why I'm not worried.
Rise of the Machines: 6 Scenes from the Robot Revolution
They're coming for your homes, your pets, your deliveries, your news, and more.
Don't Fear the Robots! Human Responsibility Will Keep Them in Check.
Lawyers, insurance, and the media put the fear of liability in the hearts of the humans who create our automated tools
This Utah Cop May Have Conceived the Worst Argument Yet for Pot Prohibition
Legalization will bring an epidemic of stoned bunnies, or something.
He Lived Long and He Prospered: R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, the Man Who Was Spock
His role on Star Trek paved the way for decades of geek culture.
Big Bang Denialism?*
Climate change, evolution, vaccines, genetically modified crops, and now the origin of the universe!
Head Transplant in 2 Years, Proposes Surgeon
Better to be the donor than the recipient in this case
The FCC Just Voted to Regulate the Internet Like a Utility
Net neutrality regulation is sure to create some problems of its own
What Does It Take to Turn Off the 21st Century? A Saw.
Keep your electronics close, and your backup plan closer.
Anti-Airbnb Rat Finks Do Freelance Urban Planning; They Know the Best Use for Everyone's Property!
Whether or not the "sharing economy" is properly communal, it better satisfies human needs. Naturally people want to kill it.
Darkleaks: The Decentralized Information Blackmarket Opens for Business
Secrets for sale anonymously
Testing Houston Rape Kit Backlog Yields 850 DNA Matches
Look, anti-rape policies that actually yield results!
WATCH: Hacking Life's Code and Creating New Organisms with 3-D Printed DNA
Q&A With Cambrian Genomics' Austen Heinz
Hacking Life's Code and Creating New Organisms with 3-D Printed DNA
Q&A With Cambrian Genomics' Austen Heinz
The Quantified Citizen
Engineering happiness might sound good, but it will leave us all less free.
