Privacy
No Signal: Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app as it continues its cyber crackdown
11:35 am PST • December 26, 2016
Egypt has intensified its cyber crackdown under president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In recent years authorities have blocked Facebook’s controversial Free Basics program for not allowing it to spy on users,…
Hardware
After losing his leg, a Syrian war survivor turns to tech to 3D print prosthetic limbs
7:30 am PDT • May 15, 2016
Asem Hasna, 22, heard dead silence for five minutes after a shell blew his left leg off in a small town southwest of Damascus in April 2013. A mathematics student…