Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of over $2,700 dollars last week, which means hackers have a greater incentive than ever to target it. How vulnerable is bitcoin to cyber attacks? Bitcoin was introduced by a pseudonymous coder in 2009. Bitcoins are made at a fixed rate by “mining” or “processing…

Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, and got it, and more after that, and always more. He was a pair of ragged orange claws upon the ocean floor, forever scuttling, pinching,…

Apenas al bajar del avión, un grupo de músicos recibe a la gente con música de vallenato en vivo. Al salir de la terminal aérea, el primer ciudadano "paisa" -que probablemente sea un trabajador taxista- anticipa lo que se escuchará y verá a lo largo de toda Medellín; el "con mucho gusto" acompañado…

Personal Shopper marks the second collaboration between director Olivier Assayas (pictured) and Kristen Stewart.Carole Bethuel "'What now?" It's a question that, in grief, becomes not just ubiquitous but an appeal. A condition. Less of an inquiry and more of an acknowledgment of how vague things…

I so loved Olivier Assayas’s last film, his entrancing ponder of art and age, Clouds of Sils Maria, that his newest work, Personal Shopper, was probably my most anticipated film at the Cannes Film Festival this year. (It premieres here on Tuesday.) It’s got Kristen Stewart, who asserted herself as a…

Do not, under any circumstances, think about any interaction you’ve had with another human being for longer than seven seconds. So you got weird at your office Christmas party. Give it a full seven seconds, and release it. Yeah, you did make a weird noise with your mouth when you were alone with…

Viajes Credit...Ojima Abalaka Las Naciones Unidas proclamaron el 2017 como el Año Internacional del Turismo Sostenible para el Desarrollo, con la finalidad de promover un cambio positivo en los viajes en relación con la inclusión social, la protección ambiental y la igualdad económica. Pero ¿eso qué…

Annals of Technology June 27, 2016 Moringa oleifera, from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, 1830. Some hope the tree could become a staple food source in dry tropical regions.Photograph by Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Federal Highway 200 snakes some fourteen hundred miles down the Pacific…

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. If it’s tempting to dismiss emotional and physical wellness as a soft subject, here’s a hard truth: Stress and burnout cost U.S. companies more than $300 billion annually in lost productivity, missed…

During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes. Even writing this now, it sounds to me like I’m bragging or laying claim to some fortitude of character. I can’t think of another type of self-injury that might be…

Alex West is a millennial, does cancer research, and absolutely loves making friends on the web. Also he would like to be added to The Awl ’ s Slack channel. In lieu of plugs, he’d like to redirect readers to a friend’s staggering medical bills . This week, West spoke to me about three of his…

Deep globalization is real. Image: Farrukh If you ever go to Asia (do not do this, it is too big, and trying to comprehend it will only convince you that your mind was never meant to really comprehend anything) and you want to put all the attention rightly back on yourself, the important American,…

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On the Job The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. May 29, 2017 Illustration by Christoph Niemann All I had to do for the two dollars was clean Her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house,…

A SHORT TIME AFTER my wife and I got married, my mother-in-law suggestively forgot in our apartment a brand-new paperback copy of The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller, who gives the message on Su

This Week in Fiction January 16, 2017 PHOTOGRAPH BY BEOWULF SHEEHAN “Constructed Worlds,” which appears in this week’s issue, describes am young Turkish-American woman’s first few months as a freshman at Harvard, in the mid-nineties. Does it draw on your own experiences as a Harvard student? Yes,…

Magic internet money—also known as cryptocurrency—is at an all-time high. The experts who watch this stuff predict that one bitcoin (the most famous cryptocurrency) will soon be worth $2,000. The big selling point of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is their use of something called the blockchain to…

Beast Mode Nicolas Rapold on the 80th Venice Film Festival September 12, 2023 THE EIGHTIETH EDITION of the Venice Film Festival was stacked, strong, and, gratifyingly, a place where ambitious work was

Hello. It’s my first day back covering technology for The Atlantic. It also marks roughly 10 years that I’ve been covering science and technology, so I’ve been thinking back to my early days at Wired in the pre-crash days of 2007. The internet was then, as it is now, something we gave a kind of…

Images: Cliff , GQ Most of us, by now, have read that GQ interview with Brad Pitt . We have at least clicked through the slideshow. We have looked with our heads tilted sideways at the photographs of

Published inKANG BLOG · 5 min read· May 16, 2017 -- Today, the Atlantic published an essay the late Alex Tizon wrote about the woman who spent her life as a slave for his family and his lifelong attempts to understand why. It’s a stunningly honest piece about something second-generation immigrants…

Many, if not most, of the reviews of the new season of Twin Peaks—David Lynch's surreal, small-town soap-slash-fantasy Americana noir that transformed television 25 years ago and that improbably retur

Paramore. Lindsey Byrnes/Courtesy of the artist What holds Paramore together? The beloved Tennessee band's decade-plus career is littered with false starts and laborious successes: More musicians have left the band than remain inside of it, and those who have departed did so caustically. Lifelong…

Tecnología Protege tu vida digital mediante ocho medidas fáciles Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times Este artículo se publicó el 16 de noviembre de 2016, pero ha sido actualizado de cara

Jia Tolentino May 10, 2017 “13 Reasons Why,” starring Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford, is grotesque, didactic, and indulgent—“Gossip Girl,” minus the wit, crossed with “Go Ask Alice.”PHOTOGRAPH BY BETH DUBER / NETFLIX “13 Reasons Why,” the Netflix show about a beautiful teen-age girl who slits…

A friend of mine once had a curious experience with a job interview. Excited about the possible position, she arrived five minutes early and was immediately ushered into the interview by the receptionist. Following an amicable discussion with a panel of interviewers, she was offered the job.

Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a research colleague and thought of in complementary terms. An aficionado on subjects ranging from the…

Marck Al 5 min read· Jan 8, 2017 -- Se existe algo que une pesquisadores, estudantes de graduação, pós-graduação, pesquisadores ou qualquer pessoa que precise coletar muitas informações para consultar posterior, talvez seja a complexa tarefa de capturar, organizar, consultar e utilizar todas as…

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Personal History Reflections on two seasons of loss. February 5, 2017 Over a lifetime, we will lose some two hundred thousand items apiece, plus money, relationships, elections, loved ones.Illustration by Bianca Bagnarelli A couple of years ago, I spent the summer in Portland, Oregon, losing things.…

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Scott Gilbert was walking through the halls of Swarthmore when he saw the poster, from a campus religious group: “Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries about when personhood begins,” it read. “But scientists know when it begins. It begins at fertilization.” What troubled Gilbert,…

Dismissing employees March 3, 2017 Leer en españolLer em português Getting fired can be devastating, especially to a conscientious employee. As a manager in the tech startup world, where turnover can be quite high and things change fast, I’ve had to let many good people go — and when I do, I’m…

When sitting down to lunch at a barbecue restaurant in Manhattan the creator and star of Please Like Me, Josh Thomas, and his real-life best friend, co-writer and co-star Thomas Ward, decide that they’re going to share some mac and cheese. For anyone who watches the program, which launches its third…

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Elements February 20, 2017 The informal paths known as desire lines can be found all over the city and all over the world, scarring pristine lawns and worming through forest undergrowth.ILLUSTRATION BY MARINA MUUN On a warm morning last August, three conservationists set out for a walk in the woods…

Tikitu de Jager, a coder living in Greece, wanted to learn to program in iOS. So, like a lot of us do when we want to pick up a new skill, he started watching lessons online. At the outset everything was new, so he’d watch carefully and take notes. But as De Jager’s knowledge grew, he wanted to zip…

Jia Tolentino The staging area resembles a pet store, where every animal is getting groomed constantly and there’s a four-to-one ratio of employee to dog. February 15, 2017 A Pekingese backstage at the Westminster Kennel Club's dog show, which resembles a heavenly pet store where there’s a…

Durante a perseguição a um caminhão colorido, cheio de luzes e personagens, um garoto de bicicleta aborda o fotógrafo Felipe Larozza. Papo vai, papo vem, ele descobre que somos de São Paulo e, com um olhar curioso, indaga: “Como são os trenzinhos de São Paulo?”. Em São Paulo não tem disso, não, mas…