What Is Bubble? And How Did It Clone Twitter With No Code? Adam LaGreca Sep 17, 2015 Image Credit: Masami Kubo Introduction So, you’ve never heard of Bubble . But you will. If you’ve wanted to build an app, launch a startup, or simply express an idea on the web – but you’re not an engineer and you…

Nature | News Sharing Translations عربي Health specialists warn that stocks of antivenom will run out in 2016. Quirin Schiermeier Corrected: 18 September 2015 Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Paul Starosta/Corbis The deadly carpet viper ( Echis ocellatus ). Rural Africa is facing a resurgence…

As someone who used to work as an ad-agency copywriter, and as an editor of ad-dependent publications, and who these days works as a content marketer with a painfully acute appreciation for just how hard it is to promote something to a great many people, while simultaneously dodging disruptive ads…

On 16 September 1920, throngs of brokers, clerks, and office workers poured from the buildings lining New York City’s Wall Street as a nearby church bell struck twelve o’clock. The narrow cobblestone street became a river of sputtering automobiles and scurrying pedestrians as the financial district…

Shipwreck haul. (Photo: Courtesy of Booty Salvage .) Not everyone wants to go into the family business. The world is littered with the children of tailors or lawyers or insurance agents who want to break free. But what if your father is a treasure hunter? This is not a hypothetical for Eric Schmitt,…

One million people had to leave their homes in Chile after a powerful quake hit the country's central region. At least 10 people died when the 8.3-magnitude quake hit at at 19:54 local time (22:54 GMT). Residents of Illapel, near the quake's epicentre, fled into the streets in terror as their homes…

reprint Related Top 5 Security Threats Banks Will Face in 2015 Former SEC Chairman Levitt to Advise Bitcoin Firms Are You Ready for Some Football, Bitcoin Fans? What Banks Need to Know from Verizon's Comprehensive Breach Report Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing…

The new facade that fronts an otherwise unmemorable arts building in Basel, Switzerland, looks like it has ripped through the fabric of reality. The colors blur horizontally, blending everything from railings to stone columns, in the unmistakeable form of a computer glitch. Zurich art collective…

Raaj Kapur Brar runs a publishing company called Fetopolis. His titles, like Fashion Style Mag , have millions of fans on Facebook . With Facebook working for him, he decided to double down and he launched a massive Facebook ad campaign. He’d run a couple of tests, and they were showing the…

Technological advances, as well as economic and cultural changes, may be to blame for rendering the party quaint to a generation. In his 1992 song “Parties in the U.S.A.,” Jonathan Richman lamented what he perceived as a decline in informal social gatherings since his 1960s adolescence. “Could there…

The Svartedalens elderly care home in Gothenburg is experimenting with a six-hour working day and says staff are less stressed.Photograph: Daniel Breece for the Guardian A Swedish retirement home may seem an unlikely setting for an experiment about the future of work, but a small group of…

Educational Opportunity For The New York Times’s Schools for Tomorrow conference, we talked to students in LEDA, a program helping low-income students succeed at top colleges. Here, Sayra Alanis relates a pivotal moment. The University of California is struggling with budget woes that have deeply…

Mobsters are often portrayed as men who care about their communities and who live by their own codes of honor and conduct, impervious to the political whims of the establishment. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES/GETTY In 1947, when Elaine Slott was sixteen, she travelled with her mother and…

Heterodox Academy has its origins in a collaborative effort by five social psychologists (Jose Duarte, Jarret Crawford, Lee Jussim, Phil Tetlock and me) and a sociologist (Charlotta Stern) to study a problem that has long been noted in psychology: nearly everyone in the field is on the left,…

Deep Learning is a very hot topic these days especially in computer vision applications and you probably see it in the news and get curious. Now the question is, how do you get started with it? Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, gives us a quick tutorial on artificial neural networks as a…

The forces of Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi had been firing high-explosive ordnance into the city of Misurata for weeks—they'd been shooting tank rounds and they'd been firing rockets. Barrage after barrage. And lots of mortars. And among the 120mm mortars they had been firing were Spanish-made…

“Hunting for distribution rights is essentially detective work,” says Marcin Paczyński, Head of Product at GOG . “Rights can repeatedly change hands or be split up between different parties, and it’s our job to get to the bottom of what happened.” Preservation of old games involves more than just an…

A trader works underneath a television screen showing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announcing that the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged.Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters 4.30pm EDT 16:30 Federal Reserve keeps interests rates unchanged, says rates could go up later this year…

So let's talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella AP The new Ellen Pao is here, suing an employer over sex discrimination: former Microsoftie Katie Moussouris. Moussouris just filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the company systematically discriminates against the women technologists it employs. Katie…

Indigenous rock art in Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. Researchers say stories about sea level rises in Australia date back though more than 7,000 years of continuous oral tradition.Photograph: Helen Davidson for the Guardian Indigenous stories of dramatic sea level rises across…

I n 2014, researchers at the University of Warwick in England announced they had found a strong association between a gene mutation identified with happiness and well-being. It’s called 5-HTTLPR and it affects the way our body metabolizes the neurotransmitter serotonin, which helps regulate our…

The Dukes: 7 Years Of Russian Cyber-Espionage 2015-09-17 Permalink 2015-09-17 Artturi Lehtiö Today we release a new whitepaper on an APT group commonly referred to as “the Dukes”. We believe that the Dukes are a well-resourced, highly dedicated, and organized cyber-espionage group that has been…

Gabriella Peñuela/FUSION If you live in the Bay Area and have looked for something special to spice up a birthday party, you might have discovered the Freakin' Awesome Karaoke Express, a truck that promises to deliver an unbelievable selection of songs to your doorstep. You might have seen a review…

Researchers at the Dissent Project are building a new kind of anonymity tool that, when used in conjunction with the Tor anonymity network, could significantly improve online anonymity. Unlike Tor's onion routing architecture , which routes internet traffic through a series of "onion layers" to…

2015 has been a pretty big year for Apple as a company. Product launches this year included the Apple Watch , the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus , the iPad Mini 4, the iPad Pro , and the new Apple TV . This month is a big month for their software launches, with today marking the release of iOS 9 as well as…

The Fed is about to attempt the greatest monetary experiment in history

Colorado has temporarily suspended taxes on marijuana after the US state brought in more tax revenue than anticipated. The tax will return to 25% on Thursday but state law requires an automatic suspension of any new taxes in the event of an accounting error. Pot retailers saw large crowds on the pot…

Merkel’s cabinet of ministers backed a bill to remove legal quirks that hold providers of Wi-Fi hotspots liable users actions. Photographer: Michele Tantussi/Bloomberg Germany is set to remove legal quirks that hold providers of Wi-Fi hotspots liable for what users that have connected do online, a…

Just 30 years after the publication of Moby Dick, a group of Alaskan whalers attempted to tame their own ocean giant. Their target was a male bowhead whale, the second largest mammal on Earth. The species were already famed for their amazing longevity: according to Inuit folklore, they could live…

Josh and Abbie Levs. Mr. Levs and CNN settled his charge that the company’s leave policy discriminated against fathers. Credit Bryan Meltz for The New York Times WASHINGTON — For decades, women who believed their employers had punished them with lower wages and missed promotions after they had…

Omar Bustamante/FUSION I have a confession to make: I might have cheated to get this job. Last spring, when I was applying to Fusion, I heard about a new start-up called Crystal that promised to, among other things, help you write the perfect email. Crystal scrapes the web for public data on a…

The startling discovery that hundreds of thousands of Brazilians have a genetic mutation that undermines their ability to resist cancer is helping labs worldwide in their search for new treatments for the disease. Sue Armstrong reports. Pedro Gomez is a short, powerfully built man in his 60s with…

A popular French TV advert for pasta sauce from the 1980s showed a jolly rustic fellow chasing after a train that was laden with all sorts of lovely food. "Reviens Leon! (Come back, Leon!)," shouts his portly wife. "I've got the same at home." Today the catchphrase "Reviens Leon!" has been…

Earlier this month, in a post to his Facebook page, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that his company’s instant messaging service is now used by more than 900 million people . And then Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promptly responded with two posts of his own. One said “congrats,” and the other…

A 14-year-old boy in Irving, Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was taken into police custody after he brought a homemade clock to school. The boy, who, according to a piece in the Dallas Morning News , “makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart,” wanted to show his engineering teacher his handiwork.…

While the sense of an ending can draw out people’s finest selves, it can also, new psychological research suggests, bring out their darker side. This study concludes that, as people get closer to finishing an activity, they become more and more likely to deliberately deceive others for their own…

How a 20-year-old, mostly inaccurate flop predicted the future, reshaped sci-fi, and won over the real hacker community. By Joe Uchill Hackers: Their only crime is still curiosity It’s the 20th anniversary of “Hackers,” one of only a handful of movies in the cybersecurity film canon. It occupies a…