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Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov built a messaging app predicated upon its ability to keep private things private, so it’s no surprise that he agrees with Apple on the issue of encryption. “I would definitely side with Tim Cook on this,” he said on Tuesday, speaking at Mobile World Congress in …

American Panorama For many of us, the word “atlas” evokes memories of tattered roadmaps stuffed into a glove compartment. And while atlases are technically just collections of maps (be they of roads, outer space, the world wide web, or the human body), the good ones also have a way of presenting a more holistic picture of the …

On July 29, fans in 190 countries around the world celebrated the launch of Windows 10 and kicked off a new yearlong initiative to #UpgradeYourWorld, which … source

In the latest episode of the MythBusters, Adam and Jamie wanted to see if you could make a rocket fueled by gummy bears (they also tried poop). You can get a lot of energy from sugar (in the gummy bears) so why not use this energy to lift a rocket? …

Things are changing at Twitter. (And when are they not?) Now, just three months after cofounder Jack Dorsey became Twitter’s permanent CEO, four of the company’s ten senior managers announced they are leaving. The shakeup comes as Dorsey attempts to revive growth at the stalled social media company. Twitter’s struggles …

The fact that American butts are getting bigger would be less of a problem if the cheap seats on airliners weren’t simultaneously getting smaller. Alas, neither trend shows any sign of abating. The obesity epidemic is as bad as ever, and airlines remains as desperate as ever to cram as many customers …

Tired of fast food chains grasping for a competitive edge by claiming to go wholesome? Don’t care about cage-free, antibiotic-free, weird-chemicals-free fast casual? Well, Burger King is with you. Today the Home of the Whopper is taking a step back in time to bet on America’s favorite retro mystery meat: …

Support me on Patreon: http://ow.ly/3ymWFu Sources: Windows 10 is shaping up to be the most unstable release since Millennium Edition: http://ow.ly/3yprQG … source

The biggest news out of each year’s Barcelona-based Mobile World Congress is always some mobile phone announcement or another. MWC 2016 was no different in this regard. Like it has in the past, Samsung used this year’s MWC to unveil its new blockbuster Galaxy smartphones. And LG, Sony, HTC, and …

One of these days, Boston Dynamics—the Alphabet-owned robot company from Beantown—is going to push its robots too far. I mean, just look at their latest video, in which they push, trip, and play keep away from a robot named Atlas. Sure, the droid walks funny, but if they keep playing …