What Is the Deep Web?
How secure do you feel on the web? It seems like every day there are more revelations about the government tapping your phone calls, reading your email, and watching what you do online...
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A Phone That Lies for You: An Android Hack Allows Users to Put Decoy Data on a Smartphone
An Android hack allows users to put decoy data on a smartphone
Angkor Wat's Hidden Paintings Revealed with Digital Technique
The new images may be early attempts to restore the Cambodian temple's decorations or simply old graffiti
Nobody Is Neutral When It Comes to Net Neutrality
The FCC has asked for comment on whether the Internet should be reclassified as a public utility to preserve net neutrality—but the motion faces political and legal hurdles
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists: A Trove of Billions of Tweets Will Be a Research Boon and An Ethical Dilemma
A trove of billions of tweets will be a research boon and an ethical dilemma
A Meta-Law to Rule Them All: Physicists Devise a “Theory of Everything”
“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms
ID’ing a Skull Just Got Easier
CT scans may soon link human remains to missing persons
Where Do Baby Sea Turtles Go?
Tracking the transatlantic journey of young sea turtles reveals surprises
Electric Grid, You Have Software Updates Available
Researchers are developing software that will let renewable energy flow into and out of a decentralized power grid like data on the Internet
Can Machines Produce Art that Moves Us?
This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your work on the computer or do you draw everything by hand?” When you respond that you do some (or all) [...]..
Quantify Thyself, Know Thyself
Humans are gradually becoming cyborgs—and that’s a good thing
Predictive Map Leads Fossil Hunters to Pay Dirt
New technique helps paleontologists narrow their search for ancient bones
Internet Addiction: Real or Virtual Reality?
In 1995, Ivan Goldberg, a New York psychiatrist, published one of the first diagnostic tests for Internet Addiction Disorder. The criteria appeared on psycom.net, a psychiatry bulletin board, and began with an air of earnest authenticity: "A maladaptive pattern of Internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three (or more) [...]..
Tape Data Storage Makes a Comeback
Sony's new process lets them store more than 185 terabytes of data on a single tape cartridge. Larry Greenemeier reports
A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization
Andy Kirk (of Visualising Data) recently published a clever image-driven post in which he uses automobiles to make a series of points about the practice of data visualization.
Computer Models Improve Odds of Fossil-Hunting Success
Luck has played a big part in many of the world's great fossil discoveries. New models predict where the bones are and put serendipity in the backseat
Developing Countries Still Far From Closing Digital Divide
The United States is not the greatest country in the world, at least when it comes to information and communication technology. Last month, the World Economic Forum released its 13th annual Global Information Technology Report, which ranks the nations of the world by their "networked readiness" - that is, how much each country can use [...]..
Annalee Newitz: Where did io9 get its name?
Today is Annalee Newitz‘s birthday (well, it’s still today in the most relevant time zone – uh, hers not mine). Annalee has been writing about the intersection of science and technology and culture for many years...
Lasers ID Insects by Wing Beats
Using laser sensing of insect wing beats, plus location and time of day, researchers report 99 percent accuracy identifying individuals in a group of six insect species. A future surveillance system would be of interest to farmers and insect-borne disease monitors...
Solar-Powered Transmitters Reveal Secrets of Endangered "Little Devil" Seabirds
How do you gather information about a bird species that spends 99 percent or more of its time at sea? Until recently, there wasn’t an easy answer.
