Category: Technology & Science

Digital rights organizations publish letter slamming cybersecurity bill cobbled together from three different proposals and gutted of privacy safeguards.

By concentrating on privacy, Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation has omitted sufficient safeguards to protect freedom of expression. How bad is it? Aylin Akturk and Jeremy Malcolm tell you.

Andrew Farke re-examines prehistoric vomit and finds…not a pterosaur.

How can you do medical research on chronic fatigue syndrome when divisions between patients, doctors and researchers are almost as chronic and painful as the disease itself? Virginia Gewin reports on new hopes of reconciliation.

Lindsay Kobayashi considers the idea of the flu season.

How easy is it to colonize Mars, really? And what about food? Steven Burgess interviews a scientist from the Mars One project for details.

Your Vizio Smart TV is not only great for sports, it’s great for spying on you, too. Julia Angwin reports.

City of Seattle recently adopted sweeping privacy principles. So why do they thinking tracking individual drivers is not a surveillance system?

Popularizing science has always had its perils. Hilda Bastian contemplates the early years of science journalism.

The age of the dinosaurs is still among us in the form of birds. How they managed to take over the world. Jon Tennant reports.