Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.

Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.

And what can we do to fix it?

How to pay for your food, diapers, and beers through ad fraud.

The afterlife of 486 frames of Kodachrome II 8mm film shot by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.

A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.

How making the most successful video game ever changed Alexey Pajitnov’s life.

Doing mushrooms in space.

At 9:14pm on November 22, 1987, sportscaster Dan Roan was doing the Bears highlights on Chicago’s WGN-TV when the station’s signal was hijacked. Someone wearning a rubber Max Headroom mask appeared, silently, on TV screens around the city. A few hours later, Headroom popped up again on another channel, this time for longer and with audio. Despite FBI and FCC investigations, the case remains unsolved.

A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.

Last Fall, America’s favorite focus drug suddenly went into short supply.

A clinical test is underway to evaluate MDMA—ecstasy—as a treatment for PTSD.