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The IRS Isn't Sure How Bitcoin Will Be Taxed
via Wikimedia Commons As the sudden demise of Coinye West showed, death still applies to the world of cryptocurrencies—but do taxes? Yes, eventually Bitcoin may be mainstream enough that citizens will...
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The First Cypherpunk Smartphone Is Built to Protect Your Privacy
Screenshot of Blackphone With smartphones in the hands or pockets of billions of people across the world, there is no denying that these devices have become one of the most vital surveillance assets in...
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Joining a Handful of Other Cities, Lincoln, Nebraska Bans Police Drones
A police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska uses a crime geo-location app. Photo via UNL. In two sentences, Mayor Chris Beutler of Lincoln, Nebraska has grounded any aspirations for unmanned aerial vehicles...
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The US Is Getting Lapped on Commercial Drones, and That Might Be OK
Sen. Ed Markey has written legislation that would regulate drone use, but it hasn't gone anywhere. Photo: Senate Committee of Commerce, Science & Transportation. America is quickly losing its...
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The NSA Lied About Collecting Hundreds of Millions of Texts a Day, and...
NSA Director Alexander at the BlackHat convention in the summer of 2013. Via the Guardian During a speech at a hacker convention five months ago, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander showed a PowerPoint...
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Alligator Home Movies Could Help Save the Species
An alligator sporting a Crittercam. Photo via. J.C. Nifong. This week, Motherboard has covered falcon-cams and bee backpacks, but the animal-monitoring fun is far from over. A team based led by J.C....
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Quantum Memory: One Possible Answer for Secure Messaging
Quantum mechanics doublt-slit experiment, via Wikimedia Commons With internet security and user privacy going down the toilet, perhaps it's about time to double down on the biggest mindfuck of all,...
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American Climate Change Denial Is at an All-Time High
Sen. James Inhofe, the nation's top climate denier. Image: Flickr Over the last two years, over 9,000 scientists have published research about climate change. Of that lot, only a single one concluded...
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New Types of Yeast Could Stave Off Wine's Climate Change Problem
Photo: Flickr/David Huang Over the past several decades, viticulturists find themselves increasingly facing a problem you might not expect: Their wines are becoming too alcoholic. Boozy wine isn’t...
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The Syrian Electronic Army Was Hacked This Week Too
Image via Flickr/Saxon Campbell The Syrian Electronic Army has been busy this past week; you probably saw the notorious hacker group in the news after they hacked into Microsoft company accounts. But...
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The Supreme Court Is Taking on Copyright and Patents with Three Important...
The US Supreme Court will review some cases that could have a big impact on the tech industry. Image via Wikimedia Commons/Morriswa Heading into 2014, the US Supreme Court has elected to hear a...
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Chinese Counterfeiters Will Rip Off Wearable Tech as Soon as It's Worth...
An electronics shop at Huaqianbi in Shenzhen. Photo via flickr/shaff If you’re in the gadget business, you’re paying attention to China. Not only because it’s a huge market for consumer electronics,...
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A Drone Stalked Me in the Woods Last Night
View from Mitchell Point/Wikimedia Like most people that tend to see strange stuff in the sky, I like being out of doors at night and I do it a lot. Sometimes that means having an end of day beer by...
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A Lesson in Micropayments: Apple Will Fork Over Millions For Letting Kids Rob...
In what should spell the end of undisclosed app store shopping sprees for minors, Apple is submitting to the Federal Trade Commission’s order to refund in full anyone whose kids made unauthorized...
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As Obama Speaks, Why Is the UK So Quiet on Surveillance?
The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Image via Wikimedia Commons/Ministry of Defence Today, President Obama announced reforms to the NSA in response to the outcry over mass...
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Here's the Full Text of President Obama's NSA Speech
For your reference and perusal, this is the full text of President Obama's speech regarding NSA and national intelligence programs as prepared for delivery at the Department of Justice Friday. At the...
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Twitch Ate Everyone's Entertainment Lunch in 2013
Image via Twitch When Shawn Plott, one of Starcraft’s best known and loved announcers and ambassadors, told me esports was “easily going to be eclipsing most forms of entertainment,” I thought he meant...
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Just 4 Percent of Americans Read E-Books Exclusively
Image via Wikimedia Commons. E-book reading is on the rise, says the Pew Research Center’s latest audit of American reading habits, so that's what all the headlines are honing in on. But lest we jump...
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Obama Says the US Will Stop Spying on Allied Leaders
Friday, President Obama had some words for the citizens and leaders of foreign allies worried about overarching NSA surveillance: Sorry for listening to your phone calls (even if you do the same to...
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South Africa's Rhinos Were Poached in Record Numbers for the Sixth Year Straight
Photo: Dion Hinchcliffe/Flickr Thirteen years ago, nine rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa. Last year, the death toll hit a new record high of 1004, newly released stats from South Africa’s...
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