Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains?

Nicholas Carr authored The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains back in 2010. This week he offered an up-to-date assessment in...

Former Yahoo Engineer Who Infiltrated 6,000 Accounts Avoids Jail

This week finally saw the federal sentencing of a former Yahoo software engineer who "admitted to using his access through his work at ...

Moderate Drinking May Improve Cognitive Health for Older Adults, Study Says

"A new study found low to moderate drinking may improve cognitive function for White middle-aged or older adults," reports CNN: Th...

Does Success in Life Depend on Understanding Both Technology and Constitutional Law?

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In 2019's The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman reporte...

Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service

"American consumers pay significantly more for cellphone service than people in many other countries," reports the New York Times....

9 new trailers to watch this week

Image: Pixar Like seemingly everyone else right now, I watched back through Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time in years (actua...

Reddit says it’s fixing code in its iOS app that copied clipboard contents

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit says it’s releasing a fix for a piece of code that copied contents from users’ clipboards. ...