If you’re new to the whole torrent and P2P file sharing thing, you’re not alone. File sharing didn’t really take off until 1999. Even then, it remained a sort of niche activity. Since early P2P applications used a centralized server scheme to distribute files, most users still didn’t have the benefit of really understanding how P2P file sharing really worked. …

    Before we talk about terraforming another planet like Mars, we have to talk about Earth-and whether we should be spending our resources trying to save it, or moving on to another pale blue dot. It’s a grim debate that some scientists say it’s time to have. Terraform This We’ve been imagining how to create a new Earth as …

    Getting online is damn near impossible in Cuba-unless you’re very rich. That’s because the state-run run telecom company, Etecsa, has historically limited access and charges exorbitant fees for connectivity. Faced with growing international pressure, the company is finally going to add wifi hotspots and drop prices-but not by much. Internet in Cuba was expensive and rare throughout the …

        I’ve always liked the idea of having a projector, but never actually owned one. It always seemed like too much work: Sure, projecting movies like in theaters would be sweet, but then I’d have to set it up all the time. Isn’t there a better way? Actually, yes: AT&T now carries a projector that’s also a …

  S     The last time we put a human on the moon was 1972, over four decades ago. Since then we’ve learned a lot about it. Our probes and robots have revealed it’s a harsh, barren space boulder with a nightmarish environment. But, you know what else we’ve learned? In the last 40 years we’ve also learned that …

  A disgraced lawyer, sitting in jail, obsessed with a kooky theory that the government tracked him by sending secret rays into his house… ends up discovering a secret government cell phone tracking program. Sounds like bizarre noir, right? But it’s true. It happened to Daniel Rigmaiden, who found out that the government had used Stingrays-covert surveillance devices that act …

It’s about damn time. Now that about half the states in the nation have passed laws banning revenge porn and several people have been convicted under those laws, Google says it will finally give revenge porn victims the option to get said revenge porn removed from searches. The search giant made the announcement today on its public policy blog. The …

  Here’s some bad news for Android users. Security researchers have discovered 100+ more apps that fail to encrypt your login data properly, making it frightfully easy for hackers to steal your password. What’s worse: the vast majority of the app makers aren’t doing anything about it. The specific issue, an HTTPS vulnerability, is hardly a new problem. In fact, …

      Change is in the air over at Twitter. Last week, the social media giant’s CEO stepped down, and earlier this week, we heard reports of the company’s forthcoming “Project Lightning,” a Snapchat-esque feature that’ll make it easier for you to keep up with trending events. Twitter’s latest upstart idea? Shopping. As announced yesterday in a blog post, …

Most people who have a basic understanding of, and experience with, a computer know about or have at least heard about PowerPoint. Beyond mere presentations that can be very powerful, PowerPoint also has several other tricks under its package. One of the tricks that most people may have noticed, but never think about, is that PowerPoint allows you to export …