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The VCs were desperate to give him more money. It was the spring of 2013, and Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick was weeks away from negotiating a new round of venture capital financing that would multiply the valuation of his car-hailing startup by a factor of 10—from a mere $330 million to…

Police are investigating a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" on the TalkTalk website, the UK company says. The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers, said banking details and personal information could have been accessed. TalkTalk said potentially all…

Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed. Joy Milne's husband, Les, died in June, aged 65. He worked as a consultant anaesthetist before being diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 45. One in 500 people in the UK has Parkinson's -…

Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a crucial law with groundbreaking implications for privacy, the Internet and free speech. Sacramento's adoption of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, also known as CalECPA, makes California the largest state to adopt…

Race October 16, 2015 Oct 16, 2015 16 Min read time Topics: race history United States Share: Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws. A man sits on the trunk of a Cadillac Fleetwood in Harlem, 1970. In his…

Pictures of European prisons can be shocking, at least here in the United States. After all, eight of Buzzfeed’s “ 14 Prisons That Will Make You Question What You Think About Serving Time ” were in Europe, and last fall, Business Insider told us, “ An American Warden Visited A Norwegian Prison, And…

Idaho An Idaho historian has uncovered 1950s footage of a bizarre wildlife experiment when beavers were packed into travel boxes and dropped from a plane Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 16.31 EDT This article is over 3 years old More than half a century after a group of beavers were parachuted into…

X Story Stream recent articles You've seen lightning countless times before, but have you ever actually seen the birth of a lightning bolt? Three years ago, electrical engineers Joan Montanyà and Oscar van der Velde of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain set up a high-speed…

File art (Photo11: Getty Images/Comstock Images) CONNECT11 COMMENT11 EMAIL11 MORE11 An increased reliance on revenue from court fees and traffic fines has led the city of Biloxi and a for-profit probation services company to run a “modern-day debtors’ prison,” according to a federal lawsuit filed…

Read the complete Drone Papers . VIEWED FROM HIGH ABOVE, Chabelley Airfield is little more than a gray smudge in a tan wasteland. Drop lower and its incongruous features start coming into focus. In the sun-bleached badlands of the tiny impoverished nation of Djibouti — where unemployment hovers at a…

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…

CIA Director John Brennan listens during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., in December 2014. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP WikiLeaks has released a cache of documents that the website says come from the AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan. The…

The house juts its chest out of the Hollywood Hills, flexing more bravado than actual confidence, looking a little unsteady as if one more misstep, one more bad night, could send it tumbling onto Sunset Boulevard. Sure, it’s got flair — the Spanish tile roof, the massive double balconies lording…

Scene from Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, after the unarmed Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darren Wilson. In the 1960s, if you were a civil rights worker stationed in the Deep South and you needed to get some urgent news out to the rest of the world—word of a beating or an activist’s arrest…

Bill O'Reilly has taken to styling himself as something of an expert on historical murders. This has not been an easy process. For example, his book on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was so flawed that the museum bookstore at Ford's Theater refused to sell it . His book on the assassination of…

No Americans are at greater risk of asbestos disease than veterans, first responders and teachers. Veterans account for just eight percent of the population but roughly a third of Americans who suffer from mesothelioma—an extremely painful and always-fatal form of cancer caused only by asbestos.…

Justin Trudeau, the dashing son of political legend Pierre Trudeau, ushered in Canada’s first political dynasty with a stunning victory in national elections. But the incoming prime minister made clear Tuesday that he will chart his own path and introduce change after nine years of Conservative…

Fed Chairman Faces Questions on Slowing Economy, Trump Criticism Yellen Says Trump Doesn’t Understand Economic Policy Fed’s Clarida Highlights Risks to Economic Growth From Abroad Trump’s Retreat on Tariffs May Help Keep Inflation Pressure at Bay, Report Says U.K. Labour Party Would Back Second…

Tony McMiller, 13, helps carry chairs outside on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, at the New Life Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, so that parishioners could sit in the yard. The church was damaged by an arson fire on Saturday, so the service was held outside. Photo by J.B. Forbes,…

The United Nations is backtracking from a document outlining a health- and human-rights-based approach to drug policy shortly after Virgin founder Richard Branson leaked it online. Branson tweeted a copy of the briefing paper, called “Decriminalisation of Drug Use and Possession for Personal…

CIA director John Brennan. Chris Maddaloni/AP A hacker who claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief’s personal information. Using information like the four…

Judge Marvin Wiggins in Montgomery, Ala., in October of 2013. Dave Martin/AP The actions of a circuit judge in Marion, Ala., are raising all kinds of questions about the ethics of essentially sentencing someone to have a medical procedure. In a recording released by the Southern Poverty Law Center ,…

“We the millennials, bro!” Kanye West is 10 minutes and 43 seconds into his mesmerizingly elliptical sermon at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, and he’s showing no signs of relenting. MTV producers had allotted just two minutes for his Vanguard Award acceptance speech. West burned through that time…

Notebook Credit Illustration by Ping Zhu In 1977, 27-year-old Walter Naegle was planning to go to San Francisco. He was living in New York City, which he found awful, when, while waiting for a light to change in Times Square, he saw an unusually handsome reason to stay: Bayard Rustin. Rustin, who…

What if you're a scientist looking for the latest published research on a particular subject, but you can't afford to pay for it? In many countries, it's against the law to download copyrighted material without paying for it - whether it's a music track, a movie, or an academic paper. Published…

It would be naive to pretend that one of the first things that comes to your mind when you hear the word “Colombia” isn’t our dark past and muggy present. You know what I’m talking about. A story that’s not over, one I was born into, and which I have been immediately associated to whenever I say…

Tim Graham/Alamy Stock Photo By Sam Wong Carbon nanotubes have turned up in the lungs of children living in Paris – the first time they have been detected in humans. Incredibly strong, light and conductive, nanotubes have shown great potential in areas such as computing, clothing and healthcare…

Today Google is rolling its Play Music on-demand service into a new $9.99 subscription for ad-free viewing across all of YouTube that will launch October 28th in the US and globally soon. However, iOS users will be charged $12.99 to cover Apple’s in-app purchase tax. The new service replaces Google…

Product and Supplier Search Facebook Apps Corner Fluke has released a free iOS and Android app that provides step-by-step guides for measurements such as insulation testing. The Fluke TestGuide app also incorporates safety guidelines and helps to interpret the results. Background articles explain…

Back in October, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an op-ed titled “The Future of History” written by Robert Zaretsky, a University of Houston professor who specializes in French history. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you’ll notice that Zaretsky’s title phrase incidentally…

Ever hear of whiteflies? They’re the color of snowflakes and practically as tiny, but they’re global plant-killers. One of their favorite snacks is the cassava, a root that’s a crucial staple food for 700 million people worldwide. But one computational biologist and her team are on a mission to save…

Getty Images Google is backing Africa’s largest wind power project, two years after investing $12 million in the continent’s largest solar power project. This morning, at a conference in Washington, D.C., the tech giant announced its support for the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in northern Kenya,…

Google has microphones everywhere. Well. In phones.Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images U sers of Google’s voice-control features such as OK Google are probably aware that the company stores the voice recordings it receives when they talk to it. But it’s still a bit of a shock to be…

Consumer Reports withdrew its recommendation for the Tesla Model S — a car the magazine previously raved about — because of poor reliability for the $100,000 electric sport sedan. The turnabout comes after the influential consumer magazine handed the luxury car a "worse-than-average" rating in its…

Traditional craft skills are helping to save the lives of children born with heart defects in Bolivia. The indigenous Aymara women have centuries of experience of knitting and weaving distinctive woollen hats, sweaters and blankets. Now, they are applying their expertise to a hi-tech medical product…

Dystopian truth is stranger than dystopian fiction. In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being…

In the end, the paparazzi machine that came to dominate the early 2000s was no match for the Great Recession, celebrity revolt, and the rise of social media. Photo illustration by Jared Harrell / BuzzFeed News; Photos: MBF-AlphaX / X17online.com, Getty images (3) Range Rovers, five-star hotels,…

I am fresh from the shower, wrapped in just a towel and smelling of mild herbal soaps (both shower and soaps are required), standing at the door to the tank. It resembles a shower door—knee-high, sliding—and opens to reveal a tub bigger than a bathtub but smaller than a hot tub, with a bulge in the…