Jim Fowler, the chief information officer of General Electric, at the Amazon Web Services conference on Wednesday. Amazon Web Services LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services doesn’t just want to dominate the global business in selling computing online. It also wants to be the rarest thing of all in the…

For the last 61 days I've been traveling throughout California while living out of my Corolla, collecting stories from people living off the grid. The people I've met have abandoned the chase of the American Dream; they are not battling traffic to work a nine-to-five job in order to live in a big…

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After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy Museo de la Ciudad de México/Gianni Dagli Orti/Art Archive/Art Resource Alexander von Humboldt, 1803 Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk, the Humboldt penguin, the Humboldt squid, and more than a hundred other animal species; Humboldt’s Lily,…

Observatory A 48-million-year-old horselike fossil found near Frankfurt. Credit Franzen et al./Senckenberg Research Institute A 48-million-year-old horselike fossil pulled from the rich Messel Pit site near Frankfurt is yielding insights into the evolution of mammalian reproduction. A fetal specimen…

Chiara Sulprizio Aug 17, 2015 Hubert Robert, “Imaginary View of Rome with Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Column of Trajan and a Temple” (1786) S toicism is apparently popular again — at least, that’s how it appears, given the spate of recent popular books, articles and events on the…

Police will no longer be stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has sought refuge since 2012. Met Police officers had been there since Mr Assange sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation, which he denies. The Met said it…

Social network giant Facebook paid just £4,327 ($6,643) in corporation tax in 2014, its latest UK results show. Its most recent Companies House filing shows the company as making a pre-tax loss of £28.5m last year, but the firm also paid its 362 UK staff a total of £35.4m in share bonuses. The share…

The Nameless Coaltion, a global alliance of women's groups, LGBTQ groups, human rights and digital rights groups has asked Facebook to abandon its "Real Names" policy, which puts Facebook users in danger of reprisals including state violence, stalkers, and on-the-job harassment. Facebook insists…

By Hal Hodson Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you. These are just a few of the measures which the Chinese government plans to use to give scores to all its citizens. China’s Social Credit System (SCS) will come up with these…

Op-Ed Contributor Is Money Corrupting Research? Chicago — THE integrity of research and expert opinions in Washington came into question last week, prompting the resignation of Robert Litan, an economist, from his position as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Senator Elizabeth…

I n February 1987, Neil Gehrels, a young researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, boarded a military plane bound for the Australian Outback. Gehrels carried some peculiar cargo: a polyethylene space balloon and a set of radiation detectors he had just finished building back in the lab. He…

One of my favorite Splash classes to teach is “Gerrymandering: Theory and Practice”. By now I’ve taught it in a number of different contexts – to high school students at Splash 2014, MIT prefrosh at Firehose 2015, MIT students at Splash For Us 2015, and Spark parents at the Spark Parents’ Program…

Ferry flying is a lucrative but high-risk industry. Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents - distances these aircraft were not designed to fly. Flying alone across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny, single-engine plane at low altitudes, sometimes in extreme weather conditions, is…

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How To Hack Linkedin to See Who Visited Your Website Be honest, the page you visit most on Linkedin is the ‘Who's viewed your profile’ page. It’s ok, it’s the page we all visit most. And I would not be surprised if it’s one of the biggest drivers of upgrades for Linkedin.It was on one of these…

Sources: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States , by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen,both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus himself. A very…

A man who was severely injured with a knife by unidentified assailants waits for medical treatment at the emergency room of a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP The US government is deporting undocumented immigrants back to Central America to face the imminent…

Dumping site on Detroit’s east side. Photo by Steve Neavling. In a city that is large enough to fit Boston, Manhattan and San Francisco, it’s not easy for Detroit workers to find – and fix – thousands of problems that exist in many long-neglected neighborhoods. But that has changed with the…

Machines won’t bring about the economic robot apocalypse ― but greedy humans will, according to physicist Stephen Hawking. In a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Thursday, the scientist predicted that economic inequality will skyrocket as more jobs become automated and the rich owners of machines…

Comparing the Public Encryption Policies from 21 of the Biggest Tech Companies There’s a major battle brewing over encryption right now. Law enforcement agencies are trying to demand “backdoors” to our sensitive data and communications, while civil liberties groups are fighting back through a new…

A flag depicting so-called Greater Albania was flown over the Euro 2016 qualifier between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on Oct. 14, 2014. Credit Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press TIRANA, Albania — After investing thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours meticulously planning for his moment, Ismail…

by Sam Stecklow Sometime between early February and late May, the proprietor of a yoga studio read a “Best Yoga Studios” list that I had compiled as an intern at the Sun Times Network. Apoplectic that her business wasn’t included, she rooted out the email address of Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief…

Obama’s position on encryption is now public, as reported by the Washington Post . According to Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson of the Post, Obama “will not —for now—call for legislation requiring companies to decode messages for law enforcement.” Instead, the Post reports, the “administration…

Electricity generated by large wind farms is now cheap enough in many places around the world to compete effectively with electricity generated by coal and natural gas. At the same time, solar panel farms aren’t quite low cost enough to be as competitive with fossil fuels as wind energy is. Still,…

I t was a little before 7 in the morning in western Russia when Major Tom reentered the atmosphere. Though he had no window to see the approaching Earth, the return had been announced earlier that day, when the braking engines were activated for six minutes, and his recovery capsule separated from…

Africa is the birthplace of our species and the source of ancient migrations that spanned the globe. But it has missed out on a revolution in understanding human origins: the study of ancient DNA. Although researchers have managed to sequence the genomes of Neandertals from Europe, prehistoric…

Diana Lind on the future of the skyscraper. SOM Oct 7, 2015 Photo © Nick Merrick | Hedrich Blessing How can the skyscraper return as an icon of our time? In her essay for The Future of the Skyscraper , Diana Lind tests the idea of building tall against the more sprawling needs of new industries. She…

Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan. The source of both hazes likely involves sunlight-initiated chemical…

Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015. Greg Kahn Never marry…

Shipments of personal computers fell nearly 11 percent last quarter, to the shock of almost no one. Sales have been declining for so long — 14 consecutive quarters — that it is becoming harder to remember a time when PCs ruled the tech world. The prolonged slump helps explain why so many of the…

A look into the megalomaniac’s drug addiction.

Having a savings fund is one of the keys to financial health. Yet trying to save is a struggle, especially because the biggest money challenge for Americans is sticking to a budget —Â a central skill to ensure enough money is left over each month to save. See 2016 Survey:Â 69% of Americans Have Less…

Overall, non-US residents received 1,210 (54%) of the 2,244 computing related Ph.D. degrees awarded in the U.S. in 2013. This map illustrates that while non-U.S. residents received more than 50% of the Ph.D.s awarded in the majority of states, there was considerable variation across the states.…

Dragnets Tracking Censorship and Surveillance Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL’s ad network, which in turn monitors users…

In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group’s international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war…

The discs came like a swarm of locusts, burrowing into post boxes and sliding through mail slots. They popped out of cereal boxes and appeared on meal trays during airline flights. They fell out of magazines and Happy Meals. They were stocked at the checkout counters of Best Buy, near the popcorn at…

Matthew Keys, right, with attorney Jay Leiderman in Sacramento in 2013. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) The crime seemed minor — maybe more like a prank. In December 2010, someone changed an article about tax policy on the Los Angeles Times Web site. Many of the changes didn’t make sense — references to…

“There is a huge amount of money to be made in end of life businesses. Free cash flow that isn’t volatile is a beautiful thing.” – Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School, as told to Bloomberg Business ***** Disruption can move fast. When Chris Silver Smith joined one of the largest publishers of…