Elon Musk announces Hyperloop pod-race competition
Can you build a half-size, hypersonic passenger pod? If so, Elon Musk wants to hear from you Elon Musk, the man behind the futuristic spaceflight company SpaceX, the futuristic electric car company...
View ArticleReddit revolts: Subforums shut down in protest over AMA co-ordinator sacking
Many of the biggest subreddits on social news site Reddit have shut down to protest against the sacking of a well-liked community co-ordinator. The so-called “Reddit Revolt” has seen the temporary...
View ArticleCheating site Ashley Madison hacked as attackers demand total shutdown
Site’s hackers claim 37m personal records have been stolen from notorious dating site, with Cougar Life and Established Men also compromised Hackers have stolen and leaked personal information from...
View ArticleSXSW considering ‘all-day event on harassment’ after pulling gaming panels
Festival has offered to reinstate one of the panels it cancelled after threats of violence and is reportedly considering an all-day event on the topic Austin’s South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival is...
View ArticleFlorida woman arrested for hit-and-run after her car calls police
A Florida woman has been arrested for a hit-and-run accident in Port St Lucie, after her car called the police to report the collision. According to police, who say the 57-year-old driver hit a truck...
View ArticleHow Reddit took on its own repulsive users — and won
Since 2006, the site insisted anything that wasn’t illegal should be tolerated. Under Ellen Pao’s brief leadership, all that changed...
View ArticleMuslim professor blocked from online game because his name was on...
Epic Games has apologised after mistakenly barring an American professor from playing its online game Paragon because someone who has the same name as him was on a US government blacklist. Muhammad...
View ArticleIraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld releases video game
Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time US secretary of defence who presided over the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, has released a video game. The game, initially released as an iOS app , is based on a...
View ArticleFacebook says it suspended Bernie Sanders groups because of a ‘glitch’
A bug in Facebook’s anti-spam algorithm has been accidentally suspending groups on the social network, sparking anger from the groups’ founders and conspiracy theories from some of their followers. On...
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