Andrea Cory and Alex Good, both interns for Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, at work on Wednesday at headquarters in Burlington, Vt. Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont still flies coach to his campaign events,…

The United States makes an improper division between surveillance conducted on residents of the United States and the surveillance that is conducted with almost no restraint upon the rest of the world. This double standard has proved poisonous to the rights of Americans and non-Americans alike. In…

Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising? We measured the mix of advertising and editorial on the mobile home pages of the top 50 news websites – including ours –…

Op-Ed Contributors Is Your Financial Adviser Making Money Off Your Bad Investments? EARLIER this year the Obama administration proposed a “conflict of interest” rule, designed to ensure that when it comes to saving for retirement, financial advisers always put their clients’ interests above their…

From shipping containers to skyscrapers to turbines, good old steel is still the workhorse of our modern world. Now, scientists are discovering new secrets to make the material better, lighter, and stronger. Today a team of material scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South…

Mexico’s Missing Forty-Three: One Year, Many Lies, and a Theory That Might Make Sense

Amazon.com Inc. will stop selling media-streaming devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with its video service, the latest example of the company using its clout to promote products that fit with its own retailing strategy. The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an…

Joe Gillespie woke up at the bottom of a BB&T Ballpark stairwell with no idea how he got there. It was hours after an event he attended in the venue, and it didn't seem like the beginning of what would be one of his "top three nights of all time." That is, until he began searching for a way out and…

Opinion A Toxic Work World Credit Lilli Carré FOR many Americans, life has become all competition all the time. Workers across the socioeconomic spectrum, from hotel housekeepers to surgeons, have stories about toiling 12- to 16-hour days (often without overtime pay) and experiencing anxiety attacks…

A LL MAJOR CONSUMER operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, are way too easy to hack. One mishap — opening the wrong email attachment, installing malware that pretends to be Flash, not updating your software quickly enough — and you’ve given the keys to the kingdom to an attacker.…

Akinori Machino Sep 17, 2015 iOS 9 is now publicly released. It’s a subtle change but the system fonts of iOS 9 are now changed to the Apple’s new San Francisco fonts, replacing the previous Helvetica Neue. Helvetica (left), San Francisco (right) San Francisco fonts have been used in Apple Watch…

When I was a senior in college, three teenagers from West Philly abducted me, robbed me, and threatened to kill me. It changed my life. Did it destroy theirs? Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Photography by Theresa…

The euphoria escalated again around 2010 with the arrival of programmatic advertising, a typically banal industry term for what is, essentially, automation. The ideal programmatic transaction works like this: A user clicks on a website and suddenly her Internet address and browsing history are…

If you want to drop some real DNA editing knowledge—like, I don’t know, at a party!—here’s a tip. Instead of calling the much hyped precise genome-editing tool CRISPR, call it CRISPR/Cas9. CRISPR, you see, just refers to stretches of repeating DNA that sit near the gene for Cas9, the actual protein…

Getty In 2006, i was 50 —and I was falling apart. Until then, I had always known exactly who I was: an exceptionally fortunate and happy woman, full of irrational exuberance and everyday joy. I knew who I was professionally. When I was 16, I’d discovered cognitive science and analytic philosophy,…

When voters decide they will no longer be mistreated and summon candidates to their own citizen-powered debates, the dynamics behind the campaigns will shift toward the citizenry. The mass media, with usual exceptions, have allowed themselves to be pulled down to the level of the political circus.…

Graphics by Gabriel Dance and Andy Rossback L ast year, Gregg Marcantel, the secretary of the New Mexico Corrections Department, voluntarily placed himself in solitary confinement for 48 hours. He was one of a rare few who could choose to do such a thing, and it was a very Gregg thing to…

Three millennia ago in ancient Greece, a plant called autumn crocus was used to treat gout. A pill form of the active ingredient, colchicine, has been used to treat the illness in the United States since the 19th century. But six years ago , a clinical trial showed the drug's safety and efficacy and…

Date Mon 28 September 2015 By Stan Hu, Tim Doyle Tags iOS /HTTPS With the release of iOS9 ,Apple has pushed developers to use HTTPS by default. While HTTPS provides anadditional level of security, this change to HTTPS comes with some cost. Thispost discusses the implications for app developers and…

Some weeks ago, during a bleary-eyed subway ride to work, I found myself staring at a young woman on the other side of the car. She wore business attire with a North Face jacket and flip-flops, and she had an infinity symbol tattooed along the outside of her left foot, only a portion of the loop…

Image Credit: GovLoop Why is it that every time I go to a doctor, I am given an appointment for a precise time and then every time, every single time, the doctor shows up at least 20 minutes late? Does the healthcare system hate me? Do they not want to fix the problem? Or are they just simply…

After harvesting a bounty of organic tomatoes, the workers at Sage Mountain Farm in Aguanga, California, gathered around a table to grade them into four categories: uno (one), dos (two), aguado (mushy), and compost. Only a handful of moldy tomatoes went into the compost. Everything else had a use.…

Sippapas/Shutterstock When was the last time that you used a floppy disk? While still used as the save icon in modern software packages like Microsoft’s Office suite, it’s unusual to see one out in the wild. Given that a typical floppy disk offers up a minuscule 1.44MB of space — not even enough to…

Students are tracked as they play games, watch videos, read books and take quizzes. In addition to their official academic records, Code.org collects huge amounts of new information on participating students as they watch the tutorials and do the activities on its website. It collects their computer…

This is a secure line Of course, all of these features are essentially a vehicle for delivery of Silent Circle's core service, Silent Phone. In its previous incarnation, Silent Phone was really two applications: Silent Phone, the encrypted, SIP-based voice and videoconferencing application; and…

AP Chinese smartphone users may not have known they were taking part in the web attack More than 650,000 Chinese smartphones have been unwittingly enrolled in a massive attack that overwhelmed a web server. The huge attack saw the target site hit with about 4.5 billion separate requests for data in…

Economic View Credit Minh Uong/The New York Times Google’s home page is simple, clean and beautiful. It’s functional. It’s efficient. It works. It’s everything that government is not. But that might be about to change, as the federal government is slurping Google’s secret sauce. That secret sauce is…

O ver 10 years ago, a digital experiment called Second Life launched, and excitement surged about the idea of interacting in online virtual worlds. Created by Linden Lab, a company founded by Philip Rosedale, the platform gained popularity as people swarmed to participate in a new form of social…

The disruption of the music industry has undoubtedly benefited consumers, but for many on the inside, its consequences have been both profound and painful. Artists finally have direct connections to their audiences, but they must fight through more noise than ever before. Distribution is no longer…

As the Cold War drew to a close with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, those at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, finally hoped to resolve many long-standing puzzles. The most important of which was how officers in the field under diplomatic and deep cover stationed across the globe…

Brad Flickinger / Flickr When Susan Cain published Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking nearly four years ago, it was immediately met with acclaim. The book criticizes schools and other key institutions for primarily accommodating extroverts and such individuals’ “need…

Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars , according to researchers who say the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life. The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer…

Crystal ident­ifies 11 distinct non-specialist functions for the exclam­ation mark. Photograph: Alamy A couple of weeks ago I saw David Crystal give an after-dinner speech at the august annual conference of the Society of Indexers and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. In it, he recalled…

Ross Ulbricht, the convicted creator of the online drug market Silk Road, did not run the site alone. Over its three year history, Ulbricht hired a small staff of forum moderators and market administrators to help keep the cogs of a multi-million dollar business moving—many of whom have now been…

When Daniel first walked into London’s National Hospital, ophthalmologist Michael Sanders could have had little idea that he would permanently alter our view of human consciousness. Daniel turned up saying that he was half blind. Although he had healthy eyes, a brain operation to cure headaches…

One of the curious things about social networks is the way that some messages, pictures, or ideas can spread like wildfire while others that seem just as catchy or interesting barely register at all. The content itself cannot be the source of this difference. Instead, there must be some property of…

The Europeans brought chilies to India It’s tough to imagine Indian food without chili peppers, but it was actually Portuguese mariners who carried the spicy fruits to India from South America in the massive cultural exchange that followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Before that, Indians…

YouTube One man's trash is another man's treasure. As we show in the video above, this is what chef Dan Barber demonstrated earlier this year, when he temporarily turned Blue Hill, his Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City, into an incubator for garbage-to-plate dining. Barber's intent was to…

Application App Server: NodeJS Scanner Daemon: ClamAV Data Store: Aerospike Analytics Performance: New Relic Infrastructure Server Instances: Amazon EC2 API Proxy: Mashape Load Balancer: Amazon ELB Monitoring Uptime: Pingdom Background At MaxCDN , we had a Hackathon for our new Analytics Platform (…