Edward Snowden, 29, told The Guardian he doesn’t see himself as a hero. “I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”
When Google’s autocompletes become haunting poetry. As documented by Google Poetics.
Cycle off the top of a mountain? Sure, why not?
It’s like a Batcave for environmentally friendly transportation devices.
Beware: these cute games are emotional bruisers.
Thanks to a small but devoted core of true believers and an infusion of Silicon Valley research funds, the once-revered, much-reviled science of cryopreservation may itself be coming back from the dead. Welcome to Alcor, where death is merely a temporary setback.
A lesson in how to say something without really saying anything at all.
Teenagers: pay attention. Your mom totally knows what you are up to on Facebook. One mom fesses up.
Here are the commands to unlock secret Instagram-style filters and drawing tools.
How to be nice on that photo-sharing app with the little ghost on it.
Naughty Dog’s The The Last of Us and the quest to make game acting not suck.
Holy SHIT.
As companies ask for more data from their users, the government asks more of the companies. And nobody’s putting up a fight.
Note the very careful wording.
An ancient chatroom service gets tapped like the big boys. A history with terrorism.
Act first, apologize never. How a modern social app gets made.
Balls on his face.
Dear National Security Agency, it was my phone’s fault. I swear! (via Damn You Auto Correct)
Ever wonder why Nala looks so shocked all the time? Turns out, she’s the government employee tasked with going through your phone records.
“It’s not that NSA surveillance programs stopped, it’s just that people stopped caring about it.” The story isn’t that the government is spying on us — it’s that we’ve known for years and don’t seem to care.
The Obama administration on Thursday called the collection of millions of Verizon customers’ telephone records “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats.”
You’ll be a mermaid in no time.
Ooopsie poopsie!
Even the most ardent hashtaggers are showing signs of fatigue.
Not just how it ends, but how the damn thing starts.
NASA, along with Penn State University, was able to capture Magellanic Clouds at ultraviolet wavelengths.
You’ll want to alternately hug your phone and throw it at a wall.
Unsurprisingly, it’s a bit of a downer.
Just don’t give him a fire flower.
