We want to talk to you about breathing — something you do all the time (if you don’t, we have no idea how you’re reading this.) Breathing, of course, just happens. You don’t have to think about it much. But if you do, you’ll discover there are a vast number of animals on this planet, animals you…

The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis, this time centred on emerging markets

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Green Fire Productions Living By on Nov 12, 2015 Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Afterward, disaster response officials decided to drop chemical…

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…

Virginia Gov. Terry Mcauliffe (Nikki Fox/AP) RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) announced Wednesday that Virginia is the first state to meet the federal definition of effectively ending homelessness among military veterans. “Folks, there is a reason why we are the greatest state in America. We are…

College students and supporters at 115 campuses across the nation were preparing to walk out of class Thursday and join in protests for free tuition, canceled student debt and a higher minimum wage for school employees. A national Facebook page for the Million Student March had about 3,000 RSVPs…

In the lead-up to the November 3 referendum on pot legalization in Ohio, reputable mainstream polls show it winning. Then, amidst the usual “glitches” that distinguish the Buckeye State’s electronic elections, it officially failed by a 2:1 margin. The outcome is a virtual statistical impossibility.…

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said. The Israeli army confirmed the raid and…

A N ENORMOUS CACHE of phone records obtained by The Intercept reveals a major breach of security at Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation’s prisons and jails. The materials — leaked via SecureDrop by an anonymous hacker who believes that Securus is violating…

U.S. companies are capitulating faster than ever to outspoken investors. Sysco Corp. took all of six days to give board seats to activist shareholder Nelson Peltz and his Trian Fund Management partner Josh Frank after they went public with their campaign. Carl Icahn landed two directorships at…

Global Panorama/Flickr In a battle against an infection, antibiotics can bring victory over enemy germs. Yet that war-winning aid can come with significant collateral damage; microbial allies and innocents are killed off, too. Such casualties may be unavoidable in some cases, but a lot of people…

A federal appeals court panel today struck down an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling in a patent case that attempted to block electronic transmissions of digital data from overseas. The ITC’s authority to prevent importation of “articles” applies only to material things, not digital…

Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers, but for the longest time, the standard practice for sending email between providers was to…

What a clever device the book is. It is compact and light, yet contains hundreds of pages that hold an incredible amount of information. Moving forward or backward in the text is as easy as flipping a page, while the book’s square shape and flat bottom facilitates easy shelving. Still, the object is…

The layoff was caused by the brothers' obsession with secrecy. They had a patent pending on the airplane's control technique, which enabled it to climb, dive and turn, but even after the patent was granted in May 1906, they were unwilling to show the machine to anyone who might steal its design,…

Getty Images The Russian military might be investigating ways of disrupting subsea cables Russia could be developing plans to sever key internet communications during future wars, according to a report in the New York Times . The article reports that various military sources are concerned about a…

South Korean women make the peninsula’s most popular traditional dish in Seoul.Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP North Korean households are facing a winter without their traditional supply of kimchi after a year in which droughts and then floods have affected vegetable harvests. As the kimjang season…

State of the Art Tilray, which cultivates marijuana crops in Nanaimo, British Columbia, is one of the companies managed by Privateer Holdings, a Seattle company that recently received venture capital funding. Credit Dirk Heydemann/Tilray One morning in September, I logged on to the website of…

When you decide to make a trade are you methodical or impulsive? It’s important for every trader to understand that your trading decision-making process can have an impact on your portfolio’s overall volatility and performance. Let’s examine two main approaches: investing and speculating. An easy…

Diamonds that have been “grown” by depositing successive layers of carbon atoms on the surface of a thin slice of a natural diamond in an intense plasma field. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times Just a decade ago, Silicon Valley had high hopes of becoming a vibrant manufacturing center by…

Apple Inc. is in discussions with U.S. banks to develop a payment service that would let users zap money to one another from their phones rather than relying on cash or checks, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would put the tech giant in competition with an increasing number of…

Chris Maddaloni/Nature Surgeons prepare a genetically modified pig lung for transplantation experiments. Pale on its bed of crushed ice, the lung looks like offal from a butcher’s counter. Just six hours ago, surgeons at the University of Maryland’s medical school in Baltimore removed it from a…

Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work? Hank Greens…

Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more. Nothing in the annals of corporate hacking compares to the portrait U.S. authorities painted Tuesday of a vast, global crime syndicate -- a mob for the digital age. As…

Yancey Strickler Nov 9, 2015 Last week I gave this talk at Web Summit in Dublin. It’s a first-draft of thoughts that I felt compelled to share in a room of entrepreneurs and VC’s. I’d love to hear any and all thoughts on this topic. Thx for reading — Y This is a talk about what happens when a…

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(AFP Photo/Karen Bleier) Over at Reason , Damon Root has a good summary of what’s at stake in Luis v. United States , a case the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The case of Luis v. United States arose in 2012 when Sila Luis was indicted in Florida on charges of operating a complicated scheme that…

Maybe we shouldn't When Freud considered the effect of (real political) censorship, he was quick to observe a certain radiative effect by which censorship expands. In advance of censorship, Freud said, we learn to self-censor, to say to ourselves, ‘maybe we shouldn’t write that’ so we add a safety…

Back in September, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that marked a major turning point in the role that behavioral science plays in helping the federal government achieve policy goals. The order, which directs federal agencies to incorporate insights from behavioral science into their…

Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office House Set to Pass Measure Blocking Trump’s National Emergency on Wall Powell Affirms ‘Patient Approach’ to Future Interest-Rate Changes Tariff Fears Led U.S. Manufacturers to Trim Spending U.S. Housing Starts End 2018 on Soft…

Download PDF version Introduction The Brazilian criminal underground includes some of the world’s most active and creative perpetrators of cybercrime. Like their counterparts in China and Russia, their cyberattacks have a strong local flavor. To fully understand them you need spend time in the…

On August 18, 2015, an otherwise unexceptional summer Tuesday, NASA issued a press release titled "There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth." This was an alarming headline to stumble upon if you had no idea that people out there were actually concerned that an asteroid might threaten Earth soon — so…

Earlier today, Motherboard posted a court document filed in a prosecution against a Silk Road 2.0 user, indicating that the user had been de-anonymized on the Tor network thanks to research conducted by a “university-based research institute”. Source: Motherboard . As Motherboard pointed out, the…

Actor James Earl Jones as Othello in 1981. Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and that the Metropolitan Opera is finally discontinuing the practice of blackface in productions of Otello…

But can that success translate into the living room and hardware, two arenas Valve has yet to conquer? Valve's first round of officially branded Steam Machines will roll out from several manufacturers beginning on Nov. 10. Before that happens, Polygon was able to go hands-on with Alienware's version…

Thomas Lembong, the newly-appointed Indonesian trade minister, is a gadget head. He uses WhatsApp and loves his iPhone. But there’s a hidden dimension to this. “I shared with the team at [WhatsApp owner] Facebook that I run my ministry on WhatsApp,” says Lembong, who spoke on stage at Tech in Asia…

Our need to store data is growing at an astonishing rate. An estimated 2.7 zettabytes (2.7 x 10 21) of data are currently held worldwide, equivalent to several trillion bytes for every one of the 7 billion people on Earth. Accessing this data quickly and reliably is essential for us to do useful…

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft completed its pad abort test in May. SpaceX It’s been half a century since the United States finally dusted Russia in the space race, as NASA’s Gemini program ticked off an unprecedented series of long-duration flights, spacewalks, and in-space rendezvous to put…