6 November, 2015 12:46 Dela med dina vänner 8961 DELNINGAR Facebook Läs artikeln på svenska T alking to room service, Edward Snowden covers the mouth piece of the phone and shouts across the room. – How would you like your steak? – Medium rare, I answer. – And to drink? – Water. – Still or…

Barack Obama ended seven years of high-wire political drama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, saying the decision reflected America’s determination to be a global leader in the fight against climate change. The move, less than four weeks before more than 190 countries gather in Paris to…

Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are teaming up on a bill that would hand Social Security recipients a $580 check and pay for it by trimming tax perks for corporate executives. The progressive duo unveiled new legislation Thursday that would cut checks for millions of…

When WikiLeaks published a leaked version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement last month, Internet freedom advocates denounced the deal ’s provisions on intellectual property law that it said would place oppressive restrictions on the World Wide Web. Now that the full text of the…

Since 1998, people all over the world have been living healthier and living longer. But middle-aged, white non-Hispanics in the United States have been getting sicker and dying in greater numbers. The trend is being driven primarily by people with a high-school degree or less. That's the sobering…

WHEN the Honduran police came to evict her in 2009 Mariana Catalina Izaguirre had lived in her lowly house for three decades. Unlike many of her neighbours in Tegucigalpa, the country’s capital, she even had an official title to the land on which it stood. But the records at the country’s Property…

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It's 6:30 AM in Mojave, California. Hundreds of windmills normally churning the air are still, a silent audience as pilots Elliot Seguin and Justin Gillen pull out their experimental airplanes from private hangars. Today, Seguin and Gillen are testing a brand-new one built by an older Air Force…

Prisons have a drone problem. In August, a drug-carrying drone was caught ferrying half a pound of various drugs into Ohio's Mansfield Correctional Facility, sparking a full-blown fight when it landed in the yard. A year earlier, a similar landing took place at a maximum security prison in South…

PA MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections. The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as "vague" by the government's terror watchdog. It emerged as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled a draft bill…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Nov. 5, 2015, 2:17 PM GMT / Updated Nov. 5, 2015, 2:49 PM GMT By Alexander Smith, F. Brinley Bruton and Fazul Rahim KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. warplane shot people trying…

The fossil fuel industry had already managed to shape a bill moving rapidly through Congress last summer, gaining provisions to ease its ability to export natural gas. But one key objective remained elusive: a measure limiting the authority of local communities to slow the construction of pipelines…

Paid advertisement? A soldier holds an American flag before the first half of a 2013 NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP In the past few years, the Pentagon spent $6.8 million to pay for patriotic displays during the games of…

Mars has its own northern lights, a varied and changeable atmosphere and a history probably shaped by solar eruptions and magnetic “tendrils”, Nasa announced on Thursday, as it unveiled research that hinted at the fate of liquid water on the planet . Researchers with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile…

Illustration by Vivienne Flesher Buffett Soundcloud Listen to This Story For many companies, there’s a bit of magic to being bought by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. The company’s “Powerhouse Five,” its largest noninsurance businesses, recorded $12.4 billion in pre-tax earnings last year , up…

Another version of this article appears on EFF.org EFF and MuckRock teamed up in August to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. With the help of members of the public who nominated…

ROME (Reuters) - The biggest mob trial in modern-day Rome opens on Thursday, with a one-eyed former neo-fascist gangster and 45 other defendants in the dock accused of operating a mafia network that plundered city coffers. The trial is the result of the “Mafia Capital” investigation, which laid bare…

Nature | News Sharing To celebrate Halloween, Nature brings you the undead results that physicists can neither prove — nor lay to rest. Davide Castelvecchi Updated: 12 November 2015 Article tools Rights & Permissions When a scientific result seems to show something genuinely new, subsequent…

I have no idea how to cook a chicken. Sure, I can defrost a chicken breast, lay it on a pan, and bake it until it won't kill me, but that's not really cooking a chicken . I'm talking about taking the entire body of a bird, seasoning it perfectly, trussing it, then putting it in the proper pan and…

Researchers from Peking University and Baidu, the largest search engine in China by far, have drawn on Baidu’s very big data to find the ghostliest cities in the country. A ghost city, put simply, is a place with far more residential buildings than people. And thanks to a post-global financial…

About New York Jimmy Bozart receiving a commendation from Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy in 1957, as Detective Frank Milley looked on. Credit Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times The newsboy Jimmy Bozart knew that the two schoolteachers who lived on the sixth floor of 3403 Foster Avenue in…

More press releases For Immediate Release, November 4, 2015 Contact: Randi Spivak, (310) 779-4894 Landmark Climate Bill Would End New Federal Fossil Fuel Leases 'Keep It in the Ground Act' Targets 450 Billion Tons of Potential Greenhouse Gas Pollution From Publicly Owned Coal, Oil and Gas…

The Counted Taser illustrationPhotograph: Guardian US interactive team/Simon Prades Calvon Reid writhed in pain before he died. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,” the 39-year-old screamed. Reid, an African American father of two, was held face-down by two police officers on a grassy lawn inside a…

Earlier this week, an article in New York Times captured the world’s imagination with the prospect of secret Russian submarines possessing the ability to sabotage undersea communication cables (with perhaps Marko Ramius at the helm, pictured above). While it is a bit of a Hollywood scenario, it is…

Stanford Report, November 3, 2015 In the 2015 Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Humanities, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson argued that if the American higher education system continues to shift priorities towards training instead of educating, students will be ill-equipped to…

Amid ongoing violence, the Israeli Knesset decided on Monday that the penalty for stone throwing — a tactic commonly used by Palestinians — will now be a minimum of three years in jail. The Knesset passed the temporary law by an overwhelming margin, 51–17, the Jerusalem Post reported . The maximum…

Wes Fernandes/Nature At Babylab, scientists monitor electrical activity in an infant’s brain. Baby Ezra is sitting on his mother's lap and staring at the computer screen with the amazement of someone still new to the world. The five-month-old's eyes rest on a series of pictures: three dancing women,…

Forum November 2, 2015 With Responses From Value arises from glamour, with its tantalizing promises of escape. Virginia Postrel Our appreciation of an object’s history also reveals bigotry. Susan A. Gelman Visible wealth makes people less cooperative. Nicholas A. Christakis Objects are not…

Let me tell you how I read: I sit in my apartment with my back to shelves of lovely books, hundreds of carefully chosen books, and I fire up a web browser and go to archive.org , the Internet Archive, which, per its name, is a significant not-for-profit organization dedicated to archiving the…

Alex Austin Nov 4, 2015 “It’s just too saturated. The barriers to adoption and therefore monetization are too high. It’s easier on the web.” Said my friend as he described why his company stopped building native apps. It’s easier to build a business on the web. How could that be? The browser-based…

A young man smokes a joint during a rally in front of Mexico’s supreme court.Photograph: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Mexico’s supreme court has ruled that sections of the country’s health law are invalid, legalizing the growing, possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Although it…

You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in , not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. SEE ALSO: NASA has designed a new mission to search for gigantic black holes. Two of…

By guest blogger Simon Oxenham The internet has changed the way we do many things, from organising a get-together to looking up a recipe. Tasks that little over a decade ago would have involved dozens of phone calls or a trip to the library, can now be completed in a heartbeat. There has been much…

View more from the October 2015 Issue Explore the Archive Executive Summary Since 1980 global corporate profits have grown at an unprecedented pace, increasing their share of global GDP by 30%. North American and Western European multinationals have been the biggest beneficiaries, capturing more…

Representative Jason Chaffetz said of the IRS’s use of Stingray surveillance that it’s ‘a bridge too far’.Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP A bill has been introduced in Congress that aims to control the use of the sophisticated surveillance equipment known as Stingray, following a Guardian investigation…

Diana Kim Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on…

Phillip Root with the Maremma sheepdogs of Middle Island, Australia. The dogs were introduced there in 2006 to protect the little penguin, a native species. Credit David Maurice Smith for The New York Times “Massacred,” read the banner headline in the local newspaper — just the single word, as if…

click image Iain Maitland Shakiya Robertson's son Kye'Ren hangs out in his bedroom, which he shares with his older brother Ky'Shaun. SHAKIYA ROBERTSON WAS STANDING on her front porch when a small maroon sedan heading west on East Outer Drive slowed to a crawl and parked in front of her home. A…

Tech Fix Credit Minh Uong/The New York Times WHEN Emily Yang, a San Francisco tech worker, is running out of cat food, she taps an app called Instacart to order a new bag of kibble to be delivered to her door within hours. For dinner, she often orders through Sprig and Munchery, app-powered services…

Vimarsh Karbhari Nov 3, 2015 Robo advisor is an online wealth management service that provides automated, algorithm based portfolio management advice to retail investors. Robo advisors are Silicon Valley’s latest passion in the fin-tech ecosystem. Robo advisor startups can be categorized into: Pure…