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There’s a general belief in the tech circles I inhabit that Hacker News is a useful indicator for up-and-coming technologies that will hit the mainstream within the next few years. So I picked some of the major tech topics of … Read more

Power companies across Texas have refused to disclose which areas of the state were exempt from controlled blackouts after a devastating snowstorm crippled the power grid in February—but one hacker has found that smart meters, the electrical devices on the … Read more

Saved Searches Regularly used searches are conveniently given their own feeds First-class iOS App The NewsBlur iOS app is free and is jam-packed with features Read the Full Story The original story from truncated RSS feeds is seamlessly expanded First-class … Read more

The Hacker Classics Hacker News is no different from most of today’s web in emphasizing what’s new. When you’re following a bunch of feeds, it’s easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the … Read more

Hacker News, a simple link aggregator owned and operated by Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator, has had many positive effects on SV startups and engineers as a whole. On Hacker News, users receive Karma whenever another user upvotes a … Read more

Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. I didn’t expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots … Read more