MIT professor accuses Bellingcat’s Higgins of enabling ‘war criminals’ to walk free in Syria (VIDEO)

A debate between Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins and MIT Professor Theodore Postol on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria in April 2017 got heated as the two accused each other of covering up war crimes. The opponents met on the grounds of the Center for Investigative Journalism’s Conspiracy conference in London on Saturday, […]

Apple’s AirPlay 2 arrives in iOS and tvOS 11.4 betas, enabling multiroom streaming

Originally announced at WWDC 2017 only to be delayed repeatedly throughout iOS 11’s beta release cycles, Apple’s new wireless streaming protocol AirPlay 2 is now usable in iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4. Betas of the latest Apple operating systems became available to developers yesterday and consumers today. AirPlay 2 was expected to debut with…Read More

The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell

Technology has helped rid the American economy of many of the routine, physical, low-paid jobs that characterized the workplace of the last century. Gone are the women who sewed garments for pennies, the men who dug canals by hand, the children who sorted through coal. Today, more and more jobs are done at a computer, […]

Drone dropped “tools” enabling inmate to escape, prison officials say

Enlarge (credit: Peter Linehan) A South Carolina inmate used wire cutters and other “tools” like mobile phones believed to be dropped from a drone to coordinate his escape from a maximum-security prison. The inmate wasn’t noticed missing for 18 hours, prison officials said Friday. Jimmy Causey. (credit: South Carolina Department of Corrections) Jimmy Causey was […]