Tech

Court backs detective who guessed burglar’s easy phone password

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man serving 18 years in prison in South Carolina for burglary was rightfully convicted in part because...

Time: 18:18 Date: 13.06.2018

This quick change helps protect your computer from hackers

With just a few clicks, you could better arm yourself against hackers and block advertisers from tracking you online. Cybercrime...

Time: 14:33 Date: 13.06.2018

Russia reportedly built a laser cannon to blast space debris

A Russian company affiliated with the Russian space agency Roscosmos claims that it is working on developing a laser that...

Time: 11:16 Date: 13.06.2018

The moon warmed after humans landed on it

It’s common knowledge that mankind has caused the dramatic warming of the Earth — nobody besides conspiracy nuts and...

Time: 09:43 Date: 13.06.2018

Toy bear pulled from shelves for leaking voice recordings of kids

It’s soft and cuddly — and comes with a huge security risk. Teddy bears from connected toy company CloudPets will no...

Time: 15:45 Date: 12.06.2018

3-D-printed homes go from hype to habitable

Although we’ve seen concepts and demonstrations of 3-D-printed concrete houses in the past, there’s a giant gulf between...

Time: 15:33 Date: 12.06.2018

The end of ‘net neutrality’ may change how you use the internet

NEW YORK — Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away...

Time: 13:28 Date: 12.06.2018

If your password is on this list you’re probably screwed

In the digital age the number of passwords you need to remember is only increasing and even though we are told each one needs...

Time: 13:11 Date: 12.06.2018

Facebook to ban businesses advertising shoddy products

Facebook is after the bad guys again — and this time, it’s the advertisers. The social media giant is targeting e-commerce...

Time: 13:08 Date: 12.06.2018

Scientists confused by weird objects looming near black hole

Scientists have discovered several strange objects close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy....

Time: 11:29 Date: 12.06.2018

Why you shouldn’t wish people happy birthday on Facebook

Wishing a friend happy birthday on Facebook could get your account hacked and your private info stolen, a new survey has...

Time: 18:32 Date: 11.06.2018

French hospital uses virtual reality for pain relief

PARIS – The very thought of visiting a hospital emergency department is stressful enough for many people, even without...

Time: 14:18 Date: 11.06.2018

How tech companies are trying to prevent suicide

The deaths of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have highlighted America’s rising suicide rate and...

Time: 12:57 Date: 11.06.2018

Scientists in Germany seek to find mass of ‘ghost particle’

BERLIN — Researchers in Germany have started collecting data with a 60 million euro ($71 million) machine designed to help...

Time: 12:41 Date: 11.06.2018

Uber will know if you’re drunk before you even get into the car

Uber will soon be able to figure out if a customer is drunk — even before they climb into one of their rides. By monitoring...

Time: 11:11 Date: 11.06.2018

What a shrimp and a literary creature have in common

You really have to respect scientists when it comes to the incredible amount of effort it must take to discover, identify...

Time: 10:22 Date: 11.06.2018

Astronomers spot Earth-size planets orbiting a distant star

Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We’ve already messed up our planet pretty badly and even if we don’t...

Time: 10:07 Date: 11.06.2018

Foxconn, Amazon under fire for harsh factory conditions

Contract manufacturer Foxconn is investigating a plant in China that makes devices for Amazon after a US watchdog group criticized...

Time: 10:01 Date: 11.06.2018

Snapchat can now sell you tickets without leaving the app

Snapchat is teaming up with ticketing app SeatGeek to get you into more events that you are following on the social media...

Time: 21:37 Date: 08.06.2018

Chinese hackers stole secret plans for new US Navy weapon

Chinese government hackers broke into a US Navy contractor’s computers and stole a trove of data — including secret plans...

Time: 16:12 Date: 08.06.2018

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Metro

These domestic superheroes combat evil one wrinkle at a time.

Some like it hot, pressed and starched. Especially members of the Brooklyn Ironers’ Union — a group of eight domestic...

Teens groped by middle-aged creep after Broadway show.

A creep groped three teenage tourists who had just gotten out of a Broadway show, cops said Saturday. The middle-aged perv...

Staten Island principal busted for role in auto insurance scam.

A Staten Island high school principal was busted for her alleged role in an auto insurance scam in Pennsylvania, a report...

Top prosecutor says safe injection sites come at ‘expense of public safety’.

The city’s top drug prosecutor ripped City Hall’s plan to open safe injection sites in a letter she sent to state health...

Skelos son made threats dad would block contract unless he got a raise.

The son of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos threatened to have his dad block a $12 million contract to an...

Opinion

Tech pioneer wants you to take a six-month break Facebook.

Some people have bad social-media addictions. You probably know them. But is it possible that you yourself have a mild case...

Liberal Jews are destroying their own religion.

American Judaism is broken. When two of the Jewish community’s most celebrated writers, Michael Chabon and his wife Ayelet...

The NY Times’ absurd Koch brothers conspiracy.

The half-awake citizen may be unaware just how dexterously the arms of the Kochtopus have reached into every precinct of...

Cynthia Nixon fudges numbers like a true politician.

Cynthia Nixon is proving she has what it takes to be a real New York pol — and can fudge numbers with the best of ’em....

Latest cop-killer’s parole is a slap in the face to all New Yorkers.

Will Gov. Cuomo’s appointees to the state parole board spring every last cop killer from prison? The board, 10 of whose...

Living

How Communism gave birth to the world’s most vicious mafia.

Gennady Karkov, the notorious Soviet Union gangster known best as “The Mongol,” stood out amid a world of vicious criminals....

Inside Russia’s long history of poisoning political enemies.

Russia’s reach is long, its methods secret, and its vengeance coldly calculated. On March 4, 66-year-old Sergei Skripal...

Why Amber Tamblyn wrote a novel about a female rapist.

Actress Amber Tamblyn, one of the founders of the Time’s Up movement, picked a surprising topic for her debut novel. “Any...

My twins overcame the odds to exist thanks to NYC.

When I became a mother in 2014, I thought the hard part was over. It had taken me five months to conceive and almost three...

Gambling will be the death of Atlantic City.

Here come just what the gambling millions haven’t prayed for: two mammoth new Atlantic City casinos opening on June 28....

Business

Goldman Sachs recommends GE suspend dividend.

General Electric ended a bad week on an ugly note when Goldman Sachs recommended Friday that the Thomas Edison-founded company...

Kraft interested in buying Campbell Soup.

There could soon be a line forming in front of Campbell’s HQ. Campbell Soup, which last month said it was reviewing all...

Amazon workers ask Bezos to stop selling tech to law enforcement.

There was another social activism uprising in tech land this week — and this one got in Jeff Bezos’ face. An undisclosed...

CNN staffer who resigned over retracted Russia story named interim head of CBSNews.com.

One of the three CNN staffers who resigned in June 2017 over a retracted story about alleged collusion between Russia and...

Netflix PR chief exits over insensitive remarks.

Netflix Chief Communications Officer Jonathan Friedland is leaving the company following a controversy over insensitive remarks....

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