Games aren’t very fun these days. As anyone paying even tangential attention to videogames likely knows, the medium is in the throes of a misogynist backlash so virulent it often could be described as terrorism. In the past nine weeks, three female games professionals—Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and Zoe Quinn—have been driven from their homes…

The Olympic sprinter received a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, but is expected to serve only a small portion of that in jail.

America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed?

Whisper app that was intended to be a safe haven for anonymity is exploiting a vast library of texts, photographs and, in many cases, the location of their authors – from Guantánamo to the White House

Coding isn't just for the super geeks anymore--it's super valuable for any business professional.

Drug traffickers used to move money through bank accounts and wire transfers. Now, in part because the U.S. and Mexican governments cracked down on banks that do business with cartels, the criminals have had to get more creative. Their latest cover? The fashion business -- using a complex scheme to transfer profits back to Mexico through the export of maternity clothes.

"She killed for hours and stole weapons from corpses. There were bodies everywhere. No man questioned her."

The contest was touted as an opportunity to gain a seat, but now the party seems to be giving up on its candidate.

Posting of involuntary nudes could net perpetrators two years in prison.

The victims deserve justice. The men deserve due process.

A ginger mongrel which became a Greek folk hero during anti-austerity riots in 2011 has died aged 10.

Compared with other Europeans, Spaniards are way more likely to live in apartment buildings, thanks in part to the autocratic regime of Francisco Franco.

She embodied heroin chic, and her vodka-chugging prowess earned her the nickname ‘The Tank.’ A new book reveals the supermodel’s ravenous excesses.

The idea of an economic safety net for the general populace makes Silicon Valley squirm, but they'll rush to strap a parachute on one of their own.

Airport scrutiny is fine, but to contain the disease we'll have to do it overseas.

The Internet of Things has spawned more than just an increased infiltration of web technology into our day-to-day lives. It has introduced a much more connected experience among users of web technology every day — let’s call it the “Interconnectedness of Things.” That, in turn, has made it more important than ever that we appreciate…

Testimony on second day of court challenge to force feedings focuses on long-term health effects on detainees after procedure

Works like Nosferatu may have lost some of their fright factor over the years, but they still fascinatingly show the birth of a genre.

Traders from different banks were teaming up illegally to rip off institutional customers.

Feds say it would have been "reasonable" for FBI to hack into Silk Road servers.

On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity notified MBIA Inc. — the nation’s largest bond insurer — that a misconfiguration in a company Web server had exposed countless customer account numbers, balances and other sensitive data. Much of the information had been indexed by search engines, including a page listing administrative credentials that attackers could use to access data that wasn’t already accessible via a simple Web search.

Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed,…