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Look, as great as it is to have all these fancy laptops and smartphones around us, sometimes we can become too attached to them. And when you’re on vacation, you just have to find a way to break free from technology. That’s why a luxury resort in Bali, Indonesia is banning electronic devices from one […]
After the Squirrel Hill massacre, the tech industry needs to grapple with a major question: Do platforms like Gab radicalize attackers? https://media.wired.com/photos/5bd72044938e62768650e491/master/pass/gab-pittsburgh.jpg
For countries in the tax haven game, it’s a race to the bottom. Singapore’s welcome mat? Corporate taxes at just 17 percent. Gibraltar scrawls 10 percent on its rock, and the Cayman Islands boast 0 percent (even though everyone knows the tab on Cayman-registered profits ends up at 13 percent). But nobody outsells Ireland and […]
It’s not every day a guest can arrive at their hotel barefoot having jumped off a long-tail boat, get handed a welcome drink and be greeted by feline royalty. But on this warm spring evening at Inle Heritage, a nonprofit foundation standing on bamboo stilts on Myanmar’s famed Inle Lake, that’s exactly how it rolls. […]
Secret Little Haven is a game about self discovery through chat programs, forums, online friendships, fan sites, games, and exploring the internet. Using SanctuaryOS, players can play around with various games and tools, or set out into the web to talk to friends, steadily finding a world where you can finally be who you really […]
The NSA leaker’s latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a3c557ff174be1907ae2314/master/pass/SnowdenApp-FeatureArt-JA1G2W.jpg Feed: All Latest
A new app developed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden promises to harness the surveillance power of your smartphone and turn it into a tiny security system to physically guard your data. Haven uses the regular features of a standard Android smartphone to detect changes in the environment around the device. The app, which adapts the […]
Nearly 60,000 Haitians will lose temporary deportation protections given to them after an earthquake in 2010 leveled their country’s capital and killed more than 200,000, the Trump administration announced Monday. The magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, devastating the island’s infrastructure and leaving millions of people homeless. Those who fled the island and […]
The Trump administration on Monday said it is terminating temporary special deportation protections for thousands of Nicaraguans affected by a 1998 hurricane that devastated the Central American country. The decision affects about 2,500 Nicaraguans, many of whom have lived in the US for nearly two decades, raising US-born children. Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) […]
A set of leaked documents from offshore law firm Appleby has revealed that Apple stashed $ 250 billion in Jersey, a tiny island off the coast of France known for being a tax haven. The tech titan apparently secretly moved its pile of overseas profits to the island after the US and various European governments […]
