Adam Estes
How Romanian Hackers Stole $10 Million From Subway Customers
Two Romanian hackers have fessed up to their involvement in a three-year-long credit card conspiracy that targeted over 150 Subway sandwich shops and as many as 146,000 of their unsuspecting customers. From 2008 to 2010, Iulian Dolan and Cezar Iulian...
Travelling Faster Than the Speed of Light Is Harder Than It Looks
Now that we've been to the moon, built the International Space Station and landed a multi-billion dollar robot on Mars, the space geeks are getting restless. Well, going to Venus is probably boring, and we'd have to fly through the asteroid belt if we...
The Latest Sign of Life on Mars: Balls
NASA's not quite sure what to think of a curious geological phenomenon that the aging Opportunity Rover came across last week on Mars. The formation looks like a rash of tiny spheres, each about three millimeters in diameter, but scientists have no...
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Blood Vessels in Seconds
3D printing was already impressive. I mean, this is technology that can take a computer file and turn it into a real life thing. Pretty much anything, too — sculptures, burritos, human fetuses, bicycles, bones, cars, kidneys, assault weapons. One big...
How Twitter's Epic Fight to Protect One Guy's Data Crashed Into Money
Twitter really gave it the old college try with the Malcolm Harris case. The Occupy protester was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last fall, along with about 700 other kids trying to stand up to the banks. Like those hundred or so other protesters...
A Few Reasons to Fear Congo's Ebola Outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola in two remote villages near the border of South Sudan. By the latest count, the epidemic "has killed 31 people":http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2012/09/14/health...
Google Just Ruined Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Have you ever play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? You know, the one where you name an actor, and then all your friends put their heads together to try and connect that actor's career to Kevin Bacon in no more than six associations. This involves lots of...
In-School Surveillance Cameras Go Where Hall Monitors Can't: The Bathroom
The hall monitor model was bound to fail. Think about it. You give a student an orange sashes, a rule book and a badge and expect them to keep the peace. But what about said student's friends? They'll get away with murder with their insider connection...
The Screen of the Future Is Your Living Room
Imagine a video game that's not just confined to your TV screen or the six different ways you can flip your wrist to move the controller. Microsoft gave us a taste of the possibilities of a more immersive gaming experience with Kinect, a smart slab of...
One Day, the Pentagon's Robo-Beast Will Rule the World (Or Just Be Your Pet)
DARPA's four-legged, load-bearing robotic mule was already impressive. AlphaDog could trot around on all fours for 20 miles without refueling. It could carry up to 400 pounds of gear up hills. It could even pick itself back up if it got knocked over...
Smartphones Can (and Will) Get Smarter
Remember when the iPhone first came out? Steve Jobs was still alive, and he really knocked everybody's socks off with this candybar-sized piece of glass and metal. It's a widescreen iPod with touch controls and a revolutionary mobile phone and an...
Nobody Knows How to Stop the Internet's Overzealous Copyright Robocops
The bots that are meant to police sites like YouTube and Ustream for violations of copyright are on a rampage and stirring up trouble across the Internet. Over the course of the past month or so, the streaming of a number of major broadcast events has...