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Accidental engineering: 10 mistakes turned into innovation That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don’t know, and what no one will tell you… 6 famous people you may not know are engineers DC distribution in your house and 42-V cars 10 tips for a successful engineering resume The 5 greatest engineers of…

EFF to Court: California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State Share It Share on Facebook Copy link San Francisco—Californians who’ve merely been arrested and not charged, much less convicted of a crime, have a right to privacy when it comes to their genetic material, EFF said…

An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America's national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country's educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why…

John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, said that the attacks in Paris showed a sophisticated operation and that surveillance internationally had become challenging. Credit Andrew Harnik/Associated Press WASHINGTON — A diabolical range of recent attacks claimed by the Islamic State — a Russian…

Yes or no? This is the central conflict of the book. At every stage of Vulcan’s history, there was tantalizing evidence suggesting something was there, but there was never enough to confirm it. How does science deal with such a conflict? How should it? On the one hand, Vulcan was theoretically…

Memo From Lebanon The relatives of one of the victims of the twin suicide attacks in Beirut mourned during a funeral procession in the city's Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood. Credit Wael Hamzeh/European Pressphoto Agency BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ali Awad, 14, was chopping vegetables when the first bomb…

Buffett on his farm in Decatur, Illinois | Photographer: John Midgley Warren’s eldest son is a farmer, photographer, environmentalist, author, businessman, board member, world traveler, and volunteer deputy sheriff. He’s also a philanthropist who's investing billions to solve some of the world’s…

Wikileaks released audiotapes on Monday purporting to reveal that appointees of the Bush and Obama administrations corruptly misappropriated funds intended to encourage the hiring of disabled people. The tapes are intended to provide evidence that billions of dollars meant for disabled people went…

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro Dulwich Picture Gallery, London/Bridgeman Images (left) King James I of England, in a portrait attributed to John de Critz, circa 1606; William Shakespeare, in a portrait attributed to John Taylor, circa 1610 Even by its own standards of…

Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The world is glutted by economic research. How do you help people use it? Earlier this year, Grace Gee and Eugene Wang, two math undergraduates at Harvard, sorted though data recently released from health-insurance marketplaces opened under the Affordable Care Act. In the 34…

Whether artists hit their stride right after college or make their best work in their final years, the creative career seldom has a conventional trajectory. We asked seven leading artists aged 24 to 80 what they haved learned from a life in art

Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images Denounce ISIS? Muslims despise ISIS. (At least those who aren’t pathological.) True, ISIS is compromised of people who claim to be Muslims. But the number one victim of this barbaric terror group is Muslims. That’s undisputed. ISIS has killed thousands of Muslims across…

Anonymous has vowed fresh attacks against social media accounts affiliated with Isis, warning its supporters: “We will hunt you down and expose you.” More than 1,500 Twitter and Facebook accounts have been taken off line since the hacktivists launched their fight against Isis supporters. The hacking…

by Will Mawhood , VALGA/VALKA It certainly doesn’t look like a national border – a forgotten, slightly gloomy pedestrianised backstreet, seeming of use only as a shortcut to more significant places. A little stream shrugs its way under a small bridge, heading nowhere at any great speed; the ground…

Exclusive: Another terrorist outrage this one in Paris is spreading fear and fury across Europe. Which makes this a key moment for President Obama to finally level with the American people about how U.S. “allies” — such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar — have been aiding and abetting extremists,…

Getty Images Martin Bureau There was a strange stillness in the news on Saturday morning, a Saturday morning that came earlier in Paris than it did in Des Moines, a city in Iowa, one of the United States of America. The body count had stabilized. The new information came at a slow, stately pace, as…

THE world is becoming less welcoming to tax dodgers. That is the conclusion of the latest Financial Secrecy Index, published every two years by the Tax Justice Network (TJN), an NGO. It looks at various measures of financial transparency and information-sharing in more than 90 countries, then…

He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine’s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love — and just enough of that. Yet somehow Strider is climbing. How high? How far? Oxford, Maine The sunlight was dying, and soon there would be…

Something very strange is happening in the world of fixed income. Across developed markets, the conventional relationship between government debt -- long considered the risk-free benchmark -- and other assets has been turned upside-down. Nowhere is that more evident than in the U.S., where lending…

“At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact recovered same for your arrival congratulations,” scribbled Howard Carter in a hurriedly written message to George Herbert, encouraging him to join him on the expedition. It was 1922 and Carter had just stumbled…

In the collision between consumer technology, cloud computing and cars, the legacy auto companies are lacking key ingredients for the future of the automobile. Here are the vectors for auto disruption. David Pakman Nov 3, 2015 Unlisted T he potential is so exciting, you can almost taste it — a world…

A growing number of online publishers including giants like BuzzFeed have come to rely on Facebook for a significant part of their traffic—in some cases as much as 60% of it. Mostly, it’s a win-win relationship with Facebook providing reach and a share of advertising revenue in exchange for a supply…

Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used. So it’s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden’s…

Get the history behind the headlines. Timeline's daily newsletter delivers a dose of historical serendipity and surprise straight to your inbox. Get more than just the news. Get Timeline! About Timeline The news is the short tail of a very long string of events. Timeline weaves those events into…

President Bush was bad at a lot of the parts of being president, but noine worse than fighting terrorism. When Donald Trump impugned the honor of his brother earlier this year, Jeb Bush proudly fell back on the achievement of the Dubya administration that has endured in public memory, despite his…

AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stand in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City on October 12, 2015. J ust before Benjamin Netanyahu took off for Washington, he flew straight into a political storm at home. Israel's prime minister announced his choice of Ran…

Detained children line up in September 2014 in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for migrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said earlier this year that federal officials were making…

Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them. Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man…

Proof of connection: the site check.torproject.org will show you if you're connected via Tor. Tor The head of the Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon computer security researchers at least $1 million to de-anonymize Tor users and reveal their IP addresses as part of a large…

L AST MONTH , I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

PacSec Google's Chrome for Android has been popped in a single exploit that could lead to the compromise of any handset. The exploit, showcased at MobilePwn2Own at the PacSec conference in Tokyo yesterday but not disclosed in full detail, targets the JavaScript v8 engine. It can probably hose all…

The Finnish Social Insurance Institution (KELA) has given some preliminary elements concerning Finland’s plan to experiment and then generalize the implementation of a basic income in the country. In its final version, the basic income would replace other benefits people currently receive, and would…

Nature | News Sharing Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. Declan Butler Article tools Rights & Permissions An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed…

One of the abandoned houses along Crystal Creek, Beattyville.Photograph: David Coyle for the Guardian Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought she looked good after all she’d been through. “I was an alcoholic first. I got drunk and fell in the…

In the fall of 2013, Billy Rios flew from his home in California to Rochester, Minn., for an assignment at the Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the world. Rios is a “white hat” hacker, which means customers hire him to break into their own computers. His roster…