What's the latest on 3I/ATLAS? Interstellar comet to exit solar system

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...
Quanta Magazine

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Real estate agents will tell you that a home’s most important feature is “location, location, location.” It’s similar in neuroscience: “Location is everything in the brain,” said Bosiljka Tasic, a ...
KEYT

Proposed Verizon Cell Tower Site in Carpinteria on Hold While New Location is Reviewed

CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) - A new cell tower site in the heart of downtown Carpinteria has been met with a pushback from some business owners and citizens, but a new site could be the solution. The ...
Neowin

Another popular platform hit by data breach exposing emails, location data, and more

Flickr (yes, it's still around) has started notifying users about a security hole that popped up at one of its third-party email service providers, which potentially exposed members' real names, email ...
PC World

How to use Windows to wipe your location data from a photo

PCWorld explains how smartphones and cameras embed hidden location data (EXIF) in photos that can reveal your exact whereabouts when shared online. Removing this metadata is crucial for privacy ...
Lifehacker

Apple Has a New Setting to Protect Your Location Data, but Not Everyone Can Use It

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...
TechCrunch

Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data

A new security feature rolled out to select models of the latest iPhones and iPads this week will make it more difficult for law enforcement, spies, and malicious hackers to obtain a person’s precise ...
Columbus Dispatch

Powell using AI-powered tool to analyze anonymous location data

The city of Powell is going to be using a new artificial intelligence tool that analyzes location data from cell phones to anonymously show where people are shopping Powell City Council unanimously ...
CNN

Supreme Court agrees to decide if police can seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether police warrants that allow access to large amounts of cellphone location data to identify people near a crime scene are constitutional. The practice ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Warrants for Phone Location Data

The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location data of people near crime scenes. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington ...
Polygon

Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...