Russia Will Be All Up in Everyone's Business at the Winter Olympics

Not to be outdone by the sheer magnitude of the NSA's PRISM program, Russia's FSB security service is preparing to monitor every single communication made by competitors and spectators alike during the 2014 winter games in Sochi, according to a report by The Guardian.

Bitcoin Seized From Silk Road Is In A Highly Prankable FBI Wallet

Ross Ulbricht's arrest last week included an FBI seizure of about 26,000 Bitcoins. But you can't just stick Bitcoins under your mattress. Even if you're the FBI they have to be in a wallet somewhere. And people know where. Internet denizens found the wallet and have been contributing tiny sums, we're talking 0.00000001 BTC here, so they can leave public notes expressing a range of . . . feelings.

Narrative Is A Lifelogging Camera That's Finally Happening

In March we covered Memoto, a lifelogging camera that takes two photos a minute while you're wearing it. It was in the preorder stage then and with $500,000 more than expected from its November Kickstarter, it had an ambitious April shipping timeframe. Which obviously didn't happen. BUT now it's actually going to ship on November 1st. For real this time.

Get Your Guts Ripped Out For an Awesome Halloween Costume

Two years ago a NASA engineer named Mark Rober emailed us a halloween costume that used two iPads to make it look like you had a gaping hole in your stomach. It was pretty clever. The following year he took it up a notch, making it way cheaper, and way more versatile. This year the system is both more refined, and more gruesome.

Rumor: HTC's One Max Might Have a Fingerprint Scanner

One starts, then everyone follows. Well, possibly: leaked images of HTC's rumored new One Max smartphone appear to show a fingerprint scanner nestled amongst its hardware, a la iPhone 5S.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Gravity

Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter last night to offer up his thoughts—largely scientific—on the sci-fi stomer Gravity. It's received rave reviews, but what does everyone's favorite scientist think?

Thom Yorke: Spotify Is "the Last Desperate Fart of a Dying Corpse"

Thom Yorke has already made his feelings on music streaming services known: he doesn't like them. But now he's spoken at length about Spotify and the current state of music distribution and he's... well, angry.