List of Science and Technology articles
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Screen Shot 2016-04-11 at 2.05.23 PM In China, People Aren’t for Sale, but They Are for Rent
A new wave of startups exploits a legal gray zone between social networking and facilitating prostitution.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 DOJ Reopens Fight With Apple Over iPhone Access
The Justice Department wants access to the iPhone 5s belonging to a methamphetamine dealer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Long-Awaited Senate Plan Would Require Companies Be Able to Decrypt On Demand
A bill written by the top senators on the Intelligence Committee escalates Washington's war with Silicon Valley over encryption.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Google And Facebook Copy WhatsApp’s Encryption Tech?
End-to-end encryption poses a huge threat to the business model of Internet giants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Hillary Clinton Helped Build WhatsApp’s State-of-the-Art Encryption
Washington is worried about the popular messaging service’s new end-to-end encryption. But it might not exist without the U.S. government’s Internet freedom agenda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Essay contest (2): Say farewell to linearity and brace yourself for the dispersed mass
“Dispersion” is coming.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Brainbelt Awakening
It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From Gender Biases to Extreme Parenting: The Top Questions Women Working in STEM are Sick of Hearing
2015 Global Thinkers Zainab Ghadiyali, Erin Summers, and Nina Tandon debate the meaning—and reach—of diversity in the sciences.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Round One Goes to the FBI, But the Crypto War Isn’t Over
Washington found a way of hacking a terrorist's iPhone without going to court with Apple, but the battle over encryption is only getting started.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 VW Now Facing North of $60 Billion In U.S. Fines for Emissions Cheat
The FTC sued Volkswagen Tuesday for what could end up being $15 billion in fines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 FBI Hacks Terrorist’s iPhone, Defusing Standoff With Apple
The U.S. Justice Department has successfully hacked into an iPhone at the center of a heated legal battle with Apple.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Crowdsource the Syrian Cease-Fire
With major powers wary of putting boots on the ground in the Middle East, there’s a new push for high-tech solutions to monitor the world’s most volatile combat zone.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Brussels Attacks: Authorities Try to Keep Cell Network Up Under Strain
Belgian police have in recent days made progress in tracking terrorists' telephonic metadata.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 DOJ to Apple: Never Mind, We Can Hack That Terrorist’s iPhone
A last-minute brief reveals that the government may not need Apple’s help after all.
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European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager. Meet the Woman Leading Europe’s War Against Google, Gazprom, and Apple
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust czar, is going after some of the world’s biggest companies — and trying to redefine the 21st-century economy.
