Privacy for anyone anywhere
Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:
goTenna makes a Mesh of off-grid comms
When there's no network coverage or internet access, smartphones are rendered useless as a communications tool. The goTenna tackled this by allowing smartphones to communicate via their own radio-based network and, now, the goTenna Mesh can do so ove
Terahertz radiation could help us read closed books
You might want to keep your journal in a safer place – with help from their colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a prototype imaging system that
7 Tips for Reporting Live Via Your Phone From Anywhere
WIRED spoke with Peter Bibring--director of police practices for the ACLU of California and an architect of Mobile Justice, a free app that allows users to transmit live video of police encounters directly to the ACLU--about what people need to kno
Metamaterials enable semiconductor-free microelectronics
Using specially-engineered metamaterials, researchers at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have created the world's first microelectronic device that does not use semiconductors, but instead employs low-power laser optical control
Elon Musk: 'We Must Hack Our Brains or Be Destroyed by AI'
Musk claims that, because artificial intelligence is coming, we have two choices. We either make ourselves symbiotically mandatory to the AI or we will basically be destroyed (or end up as pets, but he says that's the "benign scenario").
FREEDOM CELL NETWORK
Freedom Cells are peer to peer groups organizing themselves in a decentralized manner with the collective goal of asserting the sovereignty of group members through peaceful resistance and the creation of alternative institutions.
How to Throw a Knife Like Bill the Butcher
One of my favorite movies is Gangs of New York. The antagonist of the film, William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (played by the always intense Daniel Day-Lewis) remains one of the most memorable characters of recent cinematic history.
Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything On Smartphone
Where there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of security measures that might be in place, there appears to be no electronic device in the world that cannot be hacked, whether smartphone, tablet, computer, mainframe or even government agencies.
7 Survival Skills they should teach in school
I clearly remember Sidney Poitier playing the part of Mark Thackeray in the epic movie, "To Sir, With Love." He had been hired to teach a group of inner-city high school students, but he soon found himself involved in their lives. His students we