Capitol Theatre opened its doors on August 2, 1913. Over the years, it's served as a vaudeville theater, a theater for silent films, and a few years later, "talkies." In July, 1949, a terrible fire swept through the theatre during [...]
Two hackers have developed a tool that can hijack a Jeep over the internet. WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg takes the SUV for a spin on the highway while the hackers attack it from miles away. Full [...]
Study of 400 students finds "Sans Forgetica" increases memory. And it's free. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have invented a new font named "Sans Forgetica" that has been demonstrated to increase retention. And you can download it, or add it [...]
The first step in solving any problem is admitting there is one. But a new report from the US Government Accountability Office finds that the Department of Defense remains in denial about cybersecurity threats to its weapons systems. Specifically, the report concludes that almost [...]
California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456” and the old classic “password” in all new consumer electronics starting in 2020. Every new gadget built in the state from routers to smart home tech will have to [...]
In February, a 15-year-old student from DeLand High School in Florida was spotted walking around with the accessory, leading someone to call police on him for carrying a weapon. School officials placed the building on lockdown until officers realized the boy was [...]
This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers to access [...]
