Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts
It could have been the perfect crime, had they used better spray paint. Recently, authorities have seized over 320 lbs...
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How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes
An international team of cryptographers has published a new whitepaper detailing the massive amounts of work, crowdsourcing, and computational programming...
Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’
The slide whistle isn’t known as a particularly difficult instrument to play—there’s a reason they’re usually marketed to children. But...
Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
Internet users in a handful of states across the US are finding it more difficult to browse parts of the...
NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon
What time is it on the moon? Well, right now, that’s somewhat a matter of interpretation. But humanity is going...
Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable
Each day an estimated 95 percent of the world’s data travels across the roughly 900,000 miles of submarine fiber optic...
Gmail debuted on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago. The joke is still on us.
A completely free email service offering 1 GB of storage, integrated search capabilities, and automatic message threading? Too good to...
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband
In the average American house, any download rate above roughly 242 Mbs is considered a solidly speedy broadband internet connection....
Japan’s SLIM moon lander survives a second brutal lunar night
SLIM, Japan’s first successful lunar lander, isn’t going down without a fight. After making history—albeit upside down—in January, the Smart...
AI companies eye fossil fuels to meet booming energy demand
It takes massive amounts of energy to power the data center brains of popular artificial intelligence models. That demand is...
Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster
A team of miniature drones recently entered the radioactive ruins of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors in an attempt to...
‘Cyberflasher’ sent to prison for the first time in England
England’s court system has sentenced a “cyberflasher” to over a year in prison—a first for the country after its Online...
