The decades-old "finger" command is making a comeback,, with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices. In the past, people used the finger command to ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

PATH service between New Jersey and Manhattan has resumed after police determined a suspicious package at the 14th Street station posed no threat, authorities said. Port Authority police received ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

We all lose our gadgets every once in a while. Finding them isn’t always straightforward, especially if they have been stolen or left behind in a different place. Likewise, if it’s nestled between the ...

Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet per hour. It was done ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Dhruv Khullar is filling in for Joshua Rothman. When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started ...

HOBOKEN, New Jersey (PIX11) — PATH trains were partly suspended between New York City and Hoboken on Saturday, according to the Port Authority. The HOB-33 and JSQ-33 via Hoboken were suspended around ...