Communications

The spy agency’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil has been expanded to search for signs of hacking, according to the latest classified document leaks from former contractor Edward Snowden

When managing your social media persona, just how responsible should you be for weeding out fake followers? Can having bot followers damage your rep? And how do you get rid of 'em? Glendon Mellow shares Symbiartic's recent experience

Software and hardware companies push new, feature-bloated versions on us every year. Why do we keep buying?

How four tech companies tried to fight feature bloat—to greater and lesser success

Connections to a robotic arm have been wired into a tetraplegic person's brain and enabled him to use his thoughts to execute tasks requiring smooth motor control

An Estonia-based cybersecurity firm adopts a “blockchain” public ledger system to verify online transfers of sensitive information

Research suggests you might have dropped that cellphone on purpose

A new book details the success of trolls in turning the media against itself

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, gave his view of the next couple of decades in the evolution of TV-watching at the re:publica 15 digital culture conference in Berlin on May 5 

One school is trying out a lightweight sack meant to keep devices from being a classroom distraction without forcing students to give up their digital lifelines

Stuxnet was just the beginning, as malware becomes the new nuclear option

A lifelike, if stilted, robot makes her debut at a Japanese department store, while a smaller bot is ready to answer questions at a local bank