The New York Times Makes 17,000 Tasty Recipes Available Online: Japanese, Italian, Thai & Much More in Food & Drink | August 23rd, 2015 1 Comment Advertisement My pile of nightstand books at the moment includes Tim Ferriss' The Four-Hour Chef ( available as a free audiobook here ), a flashy tome…

British power technology company Intelligent Energy has developed an iPhone 6 prototype with a built-in fuel cell that supports hydrogen cartridges delivering

Have We Lost The Dream? As technologists, it is good to step outside our own “cyberniche” and gain new perspective in the niches of others cyber workers. In this case, my journey took me to Blackhat USA and Defcon , two of the largest “infosec” conferences in the United States. There I stumbled on…

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95 and forever changed the way people across the world use computers. While Apple enthusiasts will be quick to tell you that many of the more well-received Windows 95 features had long been available on the Mac, the far-reaching impact of Windows 95…

The New Health Care If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this: You should drink eight glasses of water a day. It’s just not true. There is no science behind it. And yet every summer we are inundated with news media reports warning that dehydration is dangerous and also ubiquitous .…

Why group marriage is the next horizon of social liberalism. Fredrik deBoer is a writer and academic. He lives in Indiana. Many argue that polygamous marriages are typically sites of abuse, inequality in power and coercion. Some refer to sociological research showing a host of ills that are…

I found myself in somewhat of a unique position last week: I’d made the Ashley Madison data searchable for verified subscribers of Have I been pwned? (HIBP) and now – perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect – I was being inundated with email. I mean hundreds of emails every day with people asking…

Rob Kim/Getty Images Stephen Colbert's first two Late Show guests will be George Clooney and Jeb Bush — exactly the kind of guests you would expect: very famous, very topical, and practiced on the talk show circuit. But Colbert's Late Show takes a turn starting the night after. He's inviting on…

Some torrent websites are banning Windows 10 users over fears that the operating system is sending identifying information back to Microsoft. Piracy sites are preventing users of Windows 10 from using their trackers. These are the servers that allow all of the computers downloading files using…

Ross Duggan Aug 23, 2015 Photo by Stefan Jürgensen In 2010 I was living in the heart of Dublin city, in a draughty apartment overlooking the river Liffey. The apartment was on the first floor, and the windows blocked both sound and weather so poorly I could hear the traffic passing by on the quays…

The Chromebook category is fast gaining traction in schools in the United States. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times As school districts across the country increasingly invest in technology for their students, the volume of personal computers in the classroom is surging. And it is Chromebook –…

Ever since I wrote on Thursday about the Ashley Madison hack and resulting reactions and consequences, I’ve heard from dozens of people who used the site. They offer a remarkably wide range of reasons for having done so. I’m posting below one email I received that I find particularly illuminating,…

Vijay Balan Contributor Vijay Balan is head of client services at LiveRail . It’s been more than five years since Steve Jobs wrote his infamous “Thoughts on Flash ” letter citing the high level of energy consumption, lack of performance on mobile and poor security as the reasons his company’s…

Twenty years ago today, people were lining up at CompUSA or Best Buy at midnight. It wasn’t a new Call of Duty game, Apple’s latest iPod, or any type of hardware at all that shoppers were waiting for. It was software, and not just any software: Windows 95. Microsoft’s Windows 95 release on August…

The brain of an adult bottlenose dolphin is about 25% heavier than the average human adult's brain. Photograph: Stephen Frink/Getty Images At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to…

The Ashley Madison customer database was stolen by an insider who had intimate knowledge of the Avid Life Media network Reuters Yes, it is true. Ashley Madison was not hacked - the data was stolen by a woman operating on her own who worked for Avid Life Media. The reason that I am so late to the…

On Thursday, Microsoft fired up an old rivalry. The Redmond giant released an update to its Bing search app that allows other apps to tap into its information architecture. See something in one mobile app — a nice location shot in Instagram, say — and, with a tap, you can summon information about…

Fat cells in the human body. Image: Shutterstock Full Screen Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat. Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent Press Inquiries Share Press Contact Sarah McDonnell Email: s_mcd@mit.edu Phone: 617-253-8923 MIT News…

Twitter has shut down a network of sites dedicated to archiving deleted tweets from politicians around the world. The sites — collectively known as Politwoops — were overseen by the Open State Foundation (OSF), which reported that Twitter suspended their API access on Friday, August 21st. Twitter…

Why Learn the Command Line? We use our mouse and fingers to click images of icons and access files, programs, and folders on our devices. However, this is just one way for us to communicate with computers. The command line is a quick, powerful, text-based interface developers use to more effectively…

Portable Classic an exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, May 9–September 13, 2015 Serial/Portable Classic: The Greek Canon and Its Mutations Catalog of the exhibitions at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, and Palazzo Corner, Venice, edited by Salvatore Settis with Anna…

Imagine a typical entrepreneur. A quiet, reserved introvert is probably not what first came to mind. Aren’t entrepreneurs supposed to be gregarious and commanding—verbally adept and able to inspire employees, clients and investors with the sheer force of their personality? No wonder the advice for…

Finance is not merely prone to crises, it is shaped by them. Five historical crises show how aspects of today’s financial system originated—and offer lessons for today’s regulators What is mankind’s greatest invention? Ask people this question and they are likely to pick familiar technologies such…

And the rise of “wellness bloggers” like Belle Gibson and Jess Ainscough on social media means an increasing number of patients are using “exclusion diets” as an alternative treatment. In an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday, Melbourne doctor Ian Haines wrote that…

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Engineers have developed a robotic system that can evolve and improve its performance. A robot arm builds "babies" that get progressively better at moving without any human intervention. The ultimate aim of the research project is to develop robots that adapt to their surroundings. The work by teams…

An explanation of how the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista regime and placed Fidel Castro in Power. The Groovy Historian joins in and covers the Castro Regime in power. Subscribe to the Groovy Historian here https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperTar...

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 As told to Studs Terkel (http://studsterkel.org) Hear more from this rare interview: http://blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking…

Legal highs are set to be outlawed by the British government in response to a growing number of news reports about students overdosing on the synthetic drugs after using them recreationally. On the eve of the ban, VICE travelled to Manchester to meet some more vulnerable users who have become…

I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was about. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the words — it’s that I didn’t have an answer yet. All I knew was…

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WATERisLIFE & Deutsch New York traveled to Ethiopia to give people their first ever family portraits. Knowing it might be their last. Every 20 seconds, a family in Sub-Saharan Africa loses a loved one to unsafe drinking water. Without anything to remember them by. That’s why WATERisLIFE, working…

Thom Hartmann talks the plight of the Palestinian people with Max Blumenthal, Author/Journalist/Blogger/Senior Writer-Alternet/His latest book is: The 51 Day War-Ruin and Resistance in Gaza Website: www.alternet.org If you liked this clip of The Thom Hartmann Program, please do us a big favor and…

TMRO Chief Astronomer Jared Head goes over the history of Pluto, just in time for next week's New Horizons flyby. TMRO Space Pods are crowd funded shows. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/spacepod for information,…

Friday, July 12, 2002: 1:00 pm (Area "B"): Author Adam Brate discusses the seminal works of the information age, from Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics to Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book to Richard M. Stallman's GNU Manifesto, uncovering the remarkable stories behind the beginnings of the personal…

Just a couple of blocks off the 210 Freeway in San Bernardino, Calif., about an hour east of LA, rest a whole row of cheap, rundown motels. Some people stay for a night or two, others just by the hour. But some rooms house families with kids — and these families aren't just stopping in. This is home…

W alk into your local retro arcade and you’ll see it. Cycling through the teaser screens on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Gunblade , Rambo III , and more is a pixelated image of a blue or sometimes grey background glowing for that moment before you drop in a quarter. In the center is the…

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness." In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, most of his…