Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
# tech
First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.
# tech
If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# tech
There's a cottage industry of techno-utopians out to convince us that their wildest computer-based dreams are right around the corner.
# tech
Yes, cyber warfare is real. No, the next attack won't plunge us back into the Stone Age.
# tech
Just because you have antivirus doesn't mean your computer is now invulnerable. Far from it in fact.
# tech
The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
# tech
Cyber espionage is a lot more effective than an all out attack. So why are we being told to brace for the latter rather than deal with the former?
# tech
AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
# tech
Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.