Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law. This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal&#x
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It felt like the end of an era on Monday when Anthony Fauci announced that he would be leaving his long-standing perch heading the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infecti
Shudiara McMillian doesn’t have a car and relies on city transit in Wilson, North Carolina, to get wherever she needs to go, whether it’s to work or shopping or a medical appointment.
Until about two years ago, that could mean a long wait at a bus stop because the city’s buses ran only once an hour. And it often meant riding all around town while the bus picked up and dropped off other passengers before finally getting to her stop.
Now, when McMillian needs
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you should use a different password for every account you have, and each of those passwords should be an extraordinarily long and complex string of characters that are easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess.
Unfortunately, that’s solid advice and equally unfortunately, it’s hacking season. And even more unfortunate, still: hacking season never ends.
However, there are two pretty lazy but secure methods
Bill Nye is here to tell us about the end of the world.
Come Thursday, the engineer-turned-TV host will cheekily unveil details of our imminent demise in his upcoming science disaster series The End is Nye, which streams on Peacock.
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Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar system, announced on Tuesday it has closed a $56 million Series B round. Among its backers: Andreessen Horowi
Six months ago, the prospect of a major industrialized country launching a full-fledged assault on its neighbor in both the digital and physical realms stopped being a theoretical exercise.
But the cyberattacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure that preceded and then paralleled