Shortly after the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that he was the source behind massive leaks of US and British surveillance of international communications, the US request to Norway was delivered in the form of a formal diplomatic note. The note, dated June 27th 2013, reads: « We request that…

La historia del merendero construido sobre un yacimiento arqueológico de más de 6.000 años http://t.co/9nhcB2B3Bd pic.twitter.com/tuIi9g7QC9 — El HuffPost (@ElHuffPost) August 25, 2015 Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET The accidental destruction of an ancient tomb in northwest Spain was best summed up by an…

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use . When the Ashley Madison hacks hit earlier this month , it didn’t take long for researchers to begin poring over the details and data. Impact Team, the group behind the hack, declared that it was releasing the…

The Ion Productions Team In the wake of two companies now selling the first commercially available flamethrowers in the United States, at least one mayor has called for increased restrictions on their use. And to no one's surprise, the prospect of prohibition has now driven more sales. "Business is…

• Train believed to be along a 4km stretch of track • Track is the Wroclaw-Walbrzych line, near Walbrzych • Evidence of train's existence from radar photographs 14.30 That's all from our live coverage today of a fascinating series of developments in the hunt for the truth about the Nazi gold train.…

Ian Rogers, one of Apple’s top music executives, is leaving the company. Rogers was the former CEO of Beats Music and joined Apple when it bought Beats in 2014. He was a key figure in Apple’s push to compete with Spotify in the streaming music business and oversaw its Beats1 online radio service.…

IS IT vividly realistic—or is it still just vapid razzmatazz? Virtual reality (VR), a technology that flopped in the 1990s, is making a glitzy comeback. The dream of a headset that can immerse you in a detailed, realistic 3D world is now being pursued in earnest by a gaggle of startups and the…

Anand Iyer Aug 17, 2015 I’ve heard varying numbers and percentages thrown around — “ anywhere between 20%-30% on top of the base salary” is something I’ve heard often. So, I decided to do some research to figure out how much (more) an employer pays for a W2 Full Time Employee (FTE). First, I’m not a…

A t 11 a.m. on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student in upstate New York 11 years earlier. The news was as shocking as some of the site’s content: The Zuckerberg of the…

An important archaeological discovery was announced in Greece that was found underwater in Kiladha Bay on the Peloponnese Peninsula south of Athens. Resting there for millennia, the remnants of an ancient Greek village of the 3rd millennium B.C. were found by divers just under the surface of the bay…

This is a set of recommendations used by the Linux Foundation for their systems administrators. All of LF employees are remote workers and we use this set of

Last month, the American literature expert Sarah Churchwell, a familiar figure from review columns and literary prize judging panels, was appointed to the position of Professor of the Public Understanding of the Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. The name of the…

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.” —David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest Y ou and I are members of one of the most social species on the planet. No human being succeeds in life alone. Getting along and getting ahead requires…

Lt. Tom Johannessen, right, of the San Francisco Fire Department, riding in Engine 1, which was ranked the busiest engine company in the nation last year. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — When the emergency bell sounds at Fire Station 1 here, firefighters pull on boots and…

Staff of the the Reproducibility Project at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Va., from left: Mallory Kidwell, Courtney Soderberg, Johanna Cohoon and Brian Nosek. Dr. Nosek and his team led an attempt to replicate the findings of 100 social science studies. Credit Andrew Shurtleff for…

CATEGORY: Blog [back] TOPIC: “Spookiness” Confirmed by the First Loophole-free Quantum Test [refresh] Login or create account to post reply or comment. FQXi Administrator Zeeya Merali wrote on Aug. 26, 2015 @ 19:05 GMT Hensen et al, arXiv:1508.05949 Spookiness, it seems, is here to stay. Quantum…

“How much is the taxi to Khomeini Square?” “ Gheymati nadore, it does not cost anything”, the old taxi driver spreads his arms. “ Taʿarof nakonid, don’t play etiquette with me”, I tell him, but he just laughs, and repeatedly tells that he’d take me for free. But I know well that on such occasions it…

The queasy chaos of this week’s markets, which has rattled even Wall Street pros, appeared to hit smaller investors especially hard, leaving a fresh dent in their stock market confidence. Millions of these Main Street investors were locked out during the crucial hour when the worst hit, just as…

The bongs of Big Ben have been ringing at the wrong time over the past fortnight, parliament's clocksmiths have admitted. The 156-year-old Great Clock went out by up to six seconds because it is "temperamental", according to clocksmith Ian Westworth. Mechanics discovered it became delayed over the…

Getting random This weakness of NX has long been recognized, and a recurring theme runs throughout all these exploits: the attacker knows the memory addresses of the stack and system libraries ahead of time. Everything is contingent on this knowledge, so an obvious thing to try is removing that…

Email Sixty per cent of Australian students are training for jobs that will not exist in the future or will be transformed by automation, according to a new report by the Foundation for Young Australians. The not-for-profit group, which works with young Australians to create social change, says the…

One thing that parenthood teaches you is to think in longer terms. Things you’ve asked yourself and answered in timeframes which ranged from minutes to days now change to months and years. When will my baby start walking? In about 8 months. When will I take my son to his first football game? In…

Several of the world's national anthems are shockingly similar to other compositions. Is this because composers pilfer other people's tunes - or does it tell us more about the difficulties of writing an original melody, asks Alex Marshall, author of a new book on the history of national anthems.…

If you try to connect to the public wifi in any of Cuba's 35 new hotspots , you will see the standard, government-owned network, but you'll also see a flurry of quasi-legal personal hotspots created by the tech savvy. The American startup making these hotspots possible has just changed its policy to…

Somewhere in the cosmos, a star is reaching the end of its life. Maybe it’s a massive star, collapsing under its own gravity. Or maybe it’s a dense cinder of a star, greedily stealing matter from a companion star until it can’t handle its own mass. Whatever the reason, this star doesn’t fade quietly…

While working on his thesis, “I discovered that I loved programming,” Joseph Traub recalled. “That was the beginning.” Credit Eileen Barroso/Columbia Engineering Joseph F. Traub, who founded the computer science department at Columbia University and who helped develop algorithms used in scientific…

Europe's most successful Kickstarter project is finally ready to deliver the tiny drone that won more than £2.3m in backing last November. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Zano drone which the company hopes to start sending to backers next week will not at first deliver what was…

Credit: Shutterstock Mobile internet services have been blocked in the Indian state of Gujarat (home to nearly 63 million people), following violent protests led by the Patel community after one of its leaders was detained by local police in Ahmedabad. 22-year-old politician Hardik Patel, the…

Amazon.com Inc. flamed out with critics and consumers last year in its first attempt at a smartphone. Now, rather than forge ahead, as it has with other projects, such as its Kindle tablets, the online retailer is retrenching. In recent weeks Amazon has dismissed dozens of engineers who worked on…

FOOTHILL RANCH, CALIFORNIA— In a suburban industrial park south of Los Angeles, researchers have taken a significant step toward mastering nuclear fusion—a process that could provide abundant, cheap, and clean energy. A privately funded company called Tri Alpha Energy has built a machine that forms…

on June 18, 2015 Audio Share Have you ever found yourself driving behind a semi-trailer truck? If you’re on a single-lane highway or road, it can be a nightmare. Even though the truck is driving relatively slowly, you cannot overtake it due to its size, and because you cannot see what is happening…

A computer glitch is preventing hundreds of mutual and exchange-traded funds from providing investors with the values of their holdings, complicating trading in some of the most widely held investments. The problem, stemming from a breakdown early this week at Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the…

Update Hello, This January marks the 1 year anniversary of the BitMesh project. Lot’s of things have happened, but we’ll keep it short and sweet. We are open sourcing BitMesh: https://github.com/adonley/BMesh I know, I know “it was supposed to be open source from the beginning”. You’re right, okay?…

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John Sculley’s new smartphones are not coming to a store near you anytime soon. That’s by design. The 76-year-old former Apple CEO–who ran the company in the years after Steve Jobs’s ouster in 1985–is cofounder of Obi Worldphone . A large chunk of its strategy for doing well in the remarkably…

Andrew Chanin is 30 and has $1.2 billion under management. Time to hire that first employee! Photographer: Sasha Maslov/Bloomberg Markets Photographer: Sasha Maslov/Bloomberg Markets Starting an exchange-traded mutual fund is a little like launching a rocket. There are lots of different contractors…

A young boy shown here who is afflicted with a skin disease that parents and doctors attribute to radiation released in the Chernobyl accident, and to pollutants from industrial centers. Image copyright Gerd Ludwig. Photography in the Age of Disaster Tourism Pixel Magazine Aug 27, 2015 National…

For example to make or pickup a call. But ever since the introduction of the smartphones, etiquettes are tossed out of the window. The sense of falling behind on what's trending and mainstream is frightening to so many as it might hurt their social presence and their status in their social circles.…