In preparation for Occupy Wall Street's day of action on May 1, LightBox offers a few tips for photographers—professional and amateur alike-who plan to cover the protests.
Getting the "pulse" of a city in real-time is a tricky job, but a team working at the Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis at UCL has come up with a dashboard for visualising key information about the place you live
Computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum argues the measures included in the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would essentially legalize military surveillance of U.S. citizens. "When they want to dramatically expand ...
As more than 10,000 scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier on the Cost of Knowledge website, its creator Tyler Neylon looks to the future
Back in 2009, Techdirt wrote about an interesting challenge to a then-new law against counterfeits in Kenya, on the grounds that it might be used to stop perfectly legal generic variants of drugs being imported into the country. That matters, becaus...
The Pirate Party, Europe's fastest growing political group, advocates for internet freedom.
The president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, has formally resigned after soldiers ousted him in a coup in March, with power set to be transferred to Mali's National Assembly after elections later this month. The soldiers say they seized power because...
I grew up in NY, and used to listen to WNYC quite a bit as a kid. It's the local public radio station. I'm pretty sure my parents still listen to it all the time. Also, I'm a huge fan of WNYC's On The Media program, which I link...
Public protector Thuli Madonsela says SA is at a
Some possible dark matter particles have been excluded.