The latest NSA dump from the Shadow Brokers tells you how to break into banks

The mysterious tragicomic hacking group The Shadow Brokers continues to dump incredibly compromising cyberweapons and internal information looted from the NSA, accompanied by Borat-compliant gibberish that reads like someone trying to make you guess whether there's a false flag in play, and if so,

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Trump Administration Backs Down From Order to Unmask 'Rogue' Twitter Critic

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CPB) has now withdrawn its outrageous and unconstitutional order demanding Twitter give up user data on an account frequently critical of the Trump administration.

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The evolution of America’s seven living generations

In this fascinating new video, BuzzFeed offers a guide to the seven living generations of Americans, starting with The Greatest Generation (born 1901-1927).

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MIT speeds up its futuristic lensless single-pixel camera by 50 times

Traditionally, cameras achieve resolution by having many pixels spread across space — the surface of the sensor. They also use a lens to focus the image on that sensor.

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The Conspiracy Theories of Trumpland: A Compleat and Comprehensive Bestiary

Donald Trump is not the kind of man who is willing to go along with accepted facts.

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Animations showing the population of every U.S. county from the 18th century until now

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Man receives someone else's reprogrammed stem cells

The concept of using stem cells for transplants just became a truly practical reality: a Japanese man with age-related macular degeneration has received the first transplant of stem cells from another human donor.

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The campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office starts now

Tracy Van Houten has an undoubtedly cool job. She’s a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and she currently leads a team that’s conducting testing for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission. She joined JPL, located 15 miles outside of downtown Los Angeles, 13 years ago.

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