Max Clark: Flying the SR-71 http://t.co/sUXA0XFPkl

Threes is a game that is best described as being tiny. You slide numbered tiles around a four by four grid, and you have to match multiples of threes together to increase your score. So if you have two threes next to each other, they can merge into a six. The sixes merge into a 12. And so on.…

Photograph by Alex Indigo According to newly published documents , Canadian spies tracked thousands of travelers online for days after they left an unnamed Canadian airport. This revelation, gleaned from 2012 slides (PDF) provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows that the Communications…

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook, stubbornly refusing to announce a large-screen iPhone at Apple's press event in San Francisco on September 10, 2013 Follow @techland Some wise person — I wish I knew who — once said that everybody has two businesses: their own, and show business.…

Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann For decades, junior bankers and Wall Street firms had an unspoken pact: in exchange for reasonably high-paying jobs and a shot at obscene wealth, young analysts agreed to work fifteen hours a day, and forgo anything resembling a normal life. But things may be…

David Dennis Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)—a group of the world’s top economies— decided it was time to crack down on international tax shenanigans through meaningful reform. These legal loopholes allow major tech corporations to move money around on…

golander59: You want to hire the people who built the rocket ship, not those rode it http://t.co/SjANZc6vJe

monkbent: Battle of the Box: http://t.co/fR4kezjCri - Dropbox won over the consumer, but Box realized far sooner the only money is in the enterprise.

duncan: “To succeed at Apple, Ahrendts will need to bring her "whole mind" and more.” — in Fast Company http://t.co/Py0sK6Yav8

When you take a pill, you and your doctor hope it will work — and that helps it work. That's not a new idea. But now researchers say they know just how much of a drug's effect comes from the patient's expectation: at least half. When patients in the midst of a migraine attack took a dummy pill they…

NewYorker: .@lawrence_wright argues against the theory that the #NSA's collection of metadata could perhaps have stopped 9/11: http://t.co/L4sI7vrtDB

NewYorker: Did Edward Snowden Break His Oath? http://t.co/csvpUdaZPu

In response to the recent revelations about the NSA backdooring RSA libraries I’ve compiled a brief, incomplete, history of NSA backdoors. Help me make it better by emailing corrections and additions to ethan.r.heilman@gmail.com. Update: added Actel backdoor, Update 2: There is a hackernews thread…

Normalt ville jeg pege på min email signatur, "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence." , men salget af 1/5 af DONG til Goldman Sachs ligger langt hinsides hvad der kan forklares ved simpel inkompetence. Handlen giver objektivt ingen mening. Hvis det havde drejet…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation hoodie Edward Snowden often wore to work in his NSA Hawaii office. (Credit: Frederic Jacobs via Flickr, Creative Commons) Perhaps Edward Snowden’s hoodie should have raised suspicions. The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier…

The next chapter in the cola-marketing wars could be influenced as much by science labs as TV commercials. PepsiCo, in collaboration with San Diego-based biotech firm Senomyx, is in the late stages of developing a "taste modifier" that would essentially fool taste buds into thinking they are getting…

Matthew Rutledge Newly anointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said this week that it would be OK for Internet service providers to charge Netflix and other companies for a faster lane to consumers. Wheeler's stance is surprising given that it appears to contradict the FCC's…

NewYorker: Do People Notice Food Labels? http://t.co/xcRU8fzpqQ

I løbet af en enkelt måned indsamler Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE) millioner af oplysninger om mobiltelefontrafik i udlandet for at beskytte danske soldater og danske interesser i konfliktområder. Og oplysningerne udveksles med andre lande, som Danmark samarbejder med. Det fortæller chefen…

Dave Pell We All Have Photographic Memories Now John McEnroe wants to remember having the experience, not watching it. McEnroe has never watched the video of his dramatic 1980 Wimbledon final against Bjorn Borg. I’ve heard him explain that he wants to maintain his personal recollection of the match.…

I’m very glad that the WSJ has published today’s debate between Farhad Manjoo and Dennis Berman on the subject of Apple. Manjoo has been writing some very insightful columns about the company, including the one yesterday which explained that Apple has many better options, when it comes to spending…

WASHINGTON — Army Capt. Brian Dowling was leading his Special Forces team through a steep mountain pass in eastern Afghanistan when insurgents ambushed his patrol, leaving two of his soldiers pinned down with life-threatening wounds. After a furious firefight, the two men were rescued, but that…