Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion is seeing an increase in torrent downloads and rentals due to fears over the new coronavirus, and a big part of it seems to be that it’s nearly impossible to stream on a popular streaming service.

Facebook has an interesting feature. It will let you see which companies have associated your off-Facebook activity with your Facebook account. If you visit https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/ you'll see what companies are snitching on you to Face…

The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons' loss of energy; if so, researchers may have found a way to prevent or reverse these…

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the gover…

Joe Burrow knows he has a long, long way to go before he’ll have earned comparisons to Tom Brady. Burrow was asked on NFL Network about whether he’s similar to Brady, the Patriots’ six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback. Burrow said he doesn’t want that kind…

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in April 2018 that barred …