Researchers unveil safer approach to eliminate worn-out cells in our bodies

In two minds about posting this. its a terrible thing that has happened today. My thoughts are with everyone involved and their families. Edit. After hearing about this at about 4 o'clock i have kind of watched everything unfold. funny Gifs aside this is a tragic loss of life. as far as i know it 4 people have died including one of the killers. i really cant imagine what it must be like for the people that have been involved in this.

This report describes how a government targeted an internationally recognized human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, with the Trident, a chain of zero-day exploits designed to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware.

A friendly reminder about smugness and social media.

A scalable method for nuclear heavy water treatment offers a ten-fold reduction in energy requrements

China is launching a comprehensive “credit score” system, and the more I learn about it, the more nightmarish it seems. China appears to be leveraging all the tools of the information age—electronic purchasing data, social networks, algorithmic sorting—to construct the ultimate tool of social control.

San Francisco's fog is famous, especially in the summer, when weather conditions combine to...