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For more than two decades, Tai Altman knew exactly how his parents' lives would end. When the moment came to say goodbye, knowing they were about to kill themselves, he felt surprisingly calm. They had prepared him in every possible way, he says: he knew only that he respected their decision and…

The Google campus has numerous Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images When you conduct a search on Google, your query goes across the Internet, hits a server, gets processed and is sent back to you in microseconds. You would be surprised how much energy is consumed in that process. In its latest quarter,…

One of California’s largest firearm stores recently added a peculiar new gun to its shelves. It requires an accessory: a black waterproof watch. The watch’s primary purpose is not to provide accurate

A billboard in Newark. A highway safety official in Colorado, where marijuana is legal, said that “a lot of people don’t think D.U.I. laws apply.”Credit...Carlo Allegri/Reuters If you are pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving, the police officer is likely to ask you to complete three tasks:…

Photo Cameron Winklevoss, left, and his brother, Tyler, are planning to start a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund.Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters Updated, 11:03 p.m. | Stock traders have the Standard & Poor’s 500. Bitcoin bettors will have the Winkdex. The new financial index takes its name from the…

Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion. It’s a spectacular milestone for the company’s co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton, and their remarkable team. From…

At IncludeSec we specialize in application security assessment for our clients, that means taking applications apart and finding really crazy vulnerabilities before other hackers do. When we have time off from client work we like to analyze popular apps to see what we find. Towards the end of 2013…

So it finally happened, Facebook snatched up WhatsApp for the not so bargain price of $16B to the simultaneous head explosion of every entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. A common cry echoed around the wo

Sometimes I have a situation that I am working on some feature on my own branch and suddenly someone comes to me and says that something really important has to be fixed or improved on the main branch. Usually it happens when I am in the middle of very important changes which are not ready to be…

Astra Med before it was busted Photo: NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office On February 5, the DEA and NYPD brought down what’s been described as the largest pill mill in the northeast, a string of medical clinics called Astramed with storefronts on Southern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue in…

Over on Google+, a computer scientist at McGill named Artem Kaznatcheev passed on this great description of what it’s like to learn math, written by someone who calls himself ‘man after midnight’: The way it was described to me when I was in high school was in terms of ‘levels’. Sometimes, in your…

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Candy Crush isn’t just a crazily addictive time-waster: It’s also a really, really big business. Now the company behind it wants to go public. King Digital Entertainment, the Irish publisher behind Ca

It has been six months since the Guardian moved domain from www.guardian.co.uk to www.theguardian.com and a technical explanation of the project is long overdue. I will leave the reasons behind the project to our Chief Digital Officer Tanya Cordrey, but I will offer my opinion that moving domain was…

It’s common knowledge that “ideas are worthless”. An idea will bring you nowhere – you need implementation, focus, a good team, the right environment, luck, etc. And I won’t argue with that – obviously, an idea doesn’t bring you anywhere by itself. Just google for “ideas are worthless” and you can…

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Gray Matter Credit...Olimpia Zagnoli IN Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita,” the protagonist, a writer, burns a manuscript in a moment of despair, only to find out later from the Devil that “manuscripts don’t burn.” While you might appreciate this romantic sentiment, there is of…

Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight of Jews at Kristallnacht, Wall Street titans are saying that they’re sick of being beaten up, and this week, a billionaire investor, Wilbur…

Jake Levine 5 min read· Feb 17, 2014 -- The Internet is stuck. It’s stuck inside devices and patterns of interaction that don’t live up to its creative and expressive potential. I’d like to change that. I’m building a new type of screen, and I’m going to put the Internet on your wall. “WTF?” you…

Late last night, CNBC’s David Faber broke the news that Comcast had made a bid to acquire Time Warner Cable for $159 per share, or about $45 billion. TV watchers everywhere sighed, assuming that combining the biggest and second-biggest cable companies in America to create a single conglomerate would…

The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after be

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 I emailed my 22 year old cousin Eric, who’s graduating Summa in Economics from Harvard, to see if he needed any help getting interviews at prestigious financial institutions. I was sure there would be recruiters on campus, but I didn’t want to run the risk. “Paul Graham…

If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006. If convicted of fighting abroad with a "political, ideological, religious or racial motive" - a charge they would find hard to contest - they would…

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Photo by Deanna Fei Late last week, Tim Armstrong, the chief executive officer of AOL, landed himself in a media firestorm when he held a town hall with employees to explain why he was paring their retirement benefits. After initially blaming Obamacare for driving up the company’s health care costs,…

Oh, the swagger. When Snapchat turned down between $3 and $4 billion from Facebook and Google , the verdict was that it would be hard to build a business out of Snapchat. But how hard would it be, really? Late last year, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s CEO, disclosed the number of shared snaps as 400…

Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa . Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods…

Microsoft's coronation of new CEO Satya Nadella grabbed most of the headlines on Tuesday. But the news overshadowed a second announcement from the company, one that gives an early indication of how th