Damon Winter of The New York Times has won third place for feature picture story from Pictures of the Year International (albeit anonymously , for the time being) with photographs taken on an iPhone using the Hipstamatic app. Critics have pounced. The debate over the propriety of using apps, already…

On 8 June, a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce shorted the collapsing Company’s shares in the London markets. But a momentary bounce-back in the stock ruined his plans, and he skipped town leaving £550,000 in debt. Much of this was owed to the Ayr Bank, which imploded. In less than three…

Apple aapl doesn’t often fail, and when it does, it isn’t a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone that worked on third-generation mobile networks, it also debuted MobileMe, an e-mail system that was supposed to provide the…

Tecnología Hemingway En su reciente libro Imagine: 'How Creativity Works' , el periodista especializado en psicología y neurociencia Jonah Lehrer propone que la creatividad , lejos de ser una suerte de magia arcana e inaccesible, es una habilidad al alcance de cualquiera con el tiempo suficiente…

Vernor Vinge's latest novel is called The Children of the Sky . Noted author and futurist Vernor Vinge is surprisingly optimistic when it comes to the prospect of civilization collapsing. “I think that [civilization] coming back would actually be a very big surprise,” he says in this week’s episode…

BlacklistedNews.com What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently? That is a question that CNBC asked recently , but unfortunately most Americans don’t really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy…

TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can…

La crisis ya no es solo económica, sino también política, social y de identidad. El proyecto de unión nacido de la posguerra languidece Conéctate Conéctate Lisboa, 1 de marzo: un hombre camina junto a una pintada que dice: "No somos Grecia" Francisco Seco Associated Press “Europa es una pesada carga…

Nacido el 5 de mayo de 1959 en Guilford, Inglaterra, Peter Douglas Molyneux es uno de los personajes más conocidos en la industria del videojuego. Ha sido nombrado Oficial de la Orden del Imperio Británico (2005), Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras por el gobierno francés (2007), Doctor…

Guindos, Santamaría, Montoro y Báñez ¿a qué tienen cara de dar alegrías? Por Ana R. Cañil ¡Feliz año 2012! Y nos gustaría que no fuera solo una formula hecha. ¿Estáis aún saliendo de la resaca de fin de año y asumiendo la que se os viene encima tras el primer mazazo del Gobierno Rajoy, qué os da de…

Sexo Hazte el interesante con los vikingos Esta semana os traigo un tema de tal potencia seductora que no tengo más remedio que escribir esto metida en una bañera con hielo, con objeto de mantener la cabeza fría y no seducirme a mí misma. Sin embargo, tirarte el rollo hablando de la historia de los…

As a teenager, I once had an opportunity to fly in a police helicopter over a major American city. Naively, I thought the experience might be uneventful. Perhaps there would be no crime between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. However, from the moment we were airborne, there was a fresh…

Colbert Hammers Trump for Birther Lies By Matt Wilstein Colbert Hammers Trump for Birther Lies By Matt Wilstein This past Friday, Donald Trump finally brought himself to say the words, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”“That’s what’s called a firm grasp of the obvious,”…

In 2011, as in 2010, America was in a technical recovery but continued to suffer from disastrously high unemployment. And through most of 2011, as in 2010, almost all the conversation in Washington was about something else: the allegedly urgent issue of reducing the budget deficit. This misplaced…

What everyone was talking about in 2011. Photograph: guardian.co.uk 2011 was a hectic year – so hectic it required its own language. Phrases such as "Lulzsec", "phone hacking" and "Wendi Deng" suddenly became common currency. But why hasn't anyone printed a handy cut-out-and-keep handbook explaining…

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T he e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary and was banking over the Black Sea toward Kyrgyzstan, some 3,000 miles to the east. After stopping to refuel there, the…