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In an era of Jeffrey Toobin and always-on webcams, scammers have launched a new grift that involves claiming that…

Cryptocurrency-loving hackers partially defaced the Trump campaign website for about 30 minutes today. The hackers…

Creating apps from prototypes is a huge problem. Dragging boxes around a screen and picking fonts is hard enough.…

If you’re a certain type of writer, you’ll probably think you’ll use the Freewrite Traveler every day. The entire…

Researchers at Leiden University have 3D printed the smallest boat in the world: a 30-micrometer copy of Benchy the…

When the idea behind ClipDrop first appeared a few months ago, it seemed like magic: You could point the app at any…

A former boss of mine, someone who worked at a legacy cable TV channel that starts with F and ends with “-ox News,”…

In honor of the launch of the original scroll wheel iPod on Oct. 23, 2001, let’s look back on some notable iPod…

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are a fun way to skirt money-laundering laws and pay for drugs, but, according to…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has assessed a civil penalty of $60 million from Larry Dean…

The last haven for “real” Qdrops, 8kun (previously called 8chan), briefly went down Sunday night after a security…

The Raspberry Pi—a single-board computer that lets you run Linux systems on devices the size of a deck of cards—is…

Agility Robotics has announced a $20 million funding round for a robot that looks like a Greek myth crossed with a…

Hackers are currently selling a trove of 3 million credit card numbers and customer records apparently stolen from…

A game hidden in Vivaldi version 3.4 is adding “pixel-perfect” 8-bit cyberpunk action to your browsing sessions.

Zoom is adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its popular videoconferencing platform, according to a post on the com…

Bytebase, a new app by two Columbia University software engineers, promises to let you store your snippets,…

OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has left the company to work on a new venture, according to a report by TechCrunch.

The Arcwave Ion, a new sex toy from a company called Wow Tech, promises a different kind of male orgasm. They…

A new project by a Canadian techie named Adam Doquiatan aims to teach you to type by asking you to copy great…