Computing

Some of the most talented and dangerous cybercrooks and cyberwarriors come from Russia, a longtime meddler in other countries’ affairs

Why you should think twice before you give an app access to your phone’s address book.  

Even if they can exchange their ransom, the criminals will have a hard time accessing their money anonymously

We real people should work on improving security where we are most vulnerable—on our own devices

A new device promises to tell police when a driver has been sending messages while behind the wheel, but is it legal? Larry Greenemeier reports.

Humans are increasingly entrusting our security, health and safety to “black box” intelligent machines

Celebrity Twitter accounts look a lot like Twitter bots: They tweet regularly, follow relatively few people, and upload a lot of content. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Rather than each carrying its own “brain,” they could share a single, remote one

Net neutrality arguments aside, researchers pursue a faster and more reliable way to send and receive large amounts of data through the internet in times of crisis

The products that really wow us seem like pure wizardry

Sophisticated software could help doctors make better diagnoses

We’re not going to stop taking pictures and recording movies, and we need to develop new ways to save them