State of Surveillance

Tech

Big Meat Companies Want to Use Smartwatches to Track Workers’ Every Move

11.02.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

Companies in the UK Are Mining Users’ Personal Data to Place Billboard Ads

10.13.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon’s Ring Cameras

10.12.22

By Karl Bode
Tech

Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They’ve Never Seen

10.11.22

By Chloe Xiang
Tech

Privacy Advocates Say NYC’s Fix for the ‘Digital Divide’ Is a Hyper-Surveillance Mess

10.11.22

By Karl Bode
Tech

Alleged Hacker Who Broke Into AI Surveillance Company Raided By Police

03.12.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

This Is Footage From a Spy Plane That Flew Above George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis

07.29.20

By Sam Richards
Tech

This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

03.04.20

By Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Joseph Cox
Tech

The CIA Won’t Admit It Uses Slack

02.21.20

By Tim Marchman
Tech

The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online

12.31.19

By Karl Bode
Tech

The US Government Is Suing Edward Snowden

09.17.19

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

The NSA Uses Slack. Why?

08.15.19

By Derek Mead

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Music

Are These Midwest Emo Song Titles or Texts From Your Depressed Friend at 2 AM?

If you get any of these song titles as text messages out of the blue, you should really check on your friend.

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By Lauren Boisvert
Life

The Sun Destroyed an Asteroid, Now Comes the Aftermath

What looked like a random batch of meteors may actually be the remains of a small asteroid slowly cooked apart by the Sun.

12 minutes ago

By Luis Prada
Life

Neanderthal Newborns Were Absolute Units. Here’s Exactly How Big.

Their teeth said “infant,” but their bodies looked more like toddlers, suggesting faster early growth than modern humans.

23 minutes ago

By Luis Prada
Photo by Matthew Baker/Getty Images

Music

Disturbed’s David Draiman Has Harsh Warning for Bands Who Are ‘Talking Into an Echo Chamber’

He also said that art should be “fused with intensely powerful messages.”

24 minutes ago

By Lauren Boisvert
Life

Scientists Caught Whales Talking Like Humans Underwater

Their rapid-fire clicks may be less like ocean noise and more like a rule-based system scientists are just beginning to crack.

30 minutes ago

By Luis Prada