Your apps are tracking you and selling your data.Photo: Getty Images While you probably already know enabling location services for third-party apps might compromise your privacy, an investigative New York Times report details just how creepy and personal smartphone location data can be. According to the Times, at least 75 companies get “anonymous” but extremely…

Screenshot: Craigslist Screenshot: Craigslist In other words, the kind of thing one would sit in while a bevy of generals who managed to survive a first strike yell over each other about whether you should launch retaliatory nukes, or perhaps play host to a malevolent artificial intelligence. “After much deliberation, I’ve decided to sell it…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai listens during a commission meeting December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty/Alex Wong In a statement late Friday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced an investigation was underway to determine whether a particular mobile carrier had lied about the extent of its 4G coverage. But we’ll have to wait…

Bennu, taken by OSIRIS-REx on Dec. 2Photo: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week after arriving. The OSIRIS-REx mission’s goals include understanding what kinds of stuff asteroids contain, characterizing Bennu’s motion in case its trajectory ever threatens Earth, and learning about…

Former CEO of Equifax Richard Smith testifies during a hearing before Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee November 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty/Alex Wong House Republicans spent 14 months investigating the 2017 Equifax breach only to reach the same conclusions that virtually everyone else with a brain did in the…