For the first time, one of the pilots involved in Virgin Galactic's spaceship crash has spoken to the media. Dave Mackay, the company's chief pilot, spoke to the BBC about last October, when the company's new spaceship broke apart in mid-air over California. "We were listening out on the radio and…

Alando Ballantyne Jun 3, 2015 Unlisted In April 2014, John Coogan, the chief technical officer of Soylent and Matt Cauble, the chief operations officer, set up a $500 system that successfully managed the first four months of Soylent shipments. In total, their setup shipped and tracked approximately…

MalwareTech SBK – A Bootkit Capable of Surviving Reformat By : MalwareTech June 1, 2015 Category : Uncategorized Tags: bootkits , hacking , malware Uncategorized Since i got into firmware hacking, I’ve been working on a little project behind the scenes: A hard disk firmware based rootkit which…

Modern life is often characterised as cold and uncompromising. But last week, about 100 bystanders acted entirely against the stereotype. It's the latest in a series of events which challenges assumptions about apathy. It is an unremarkable place for something remarkable to happen. The junction of…

A Baidu employee enjoying recreation time at the Chinese search giant’s research center in Beijing in December. Credit Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — A group of researchers at the Chinese web services company Baidu have been barred from participating in an international competition for…

Chicago Government lawyers fear that mentioning the mass surveillance whistleblower in Adel Daoud’s case could bias jurors against prosecution evidence Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 17.04 EDT This article is over 3 years old Mentioning Edward Snowden could damage the prosecution case in a terror…

President Obama’s argument that Democrats should trust his vision on trade is falling flat on Capitol Hill. Democrats — even some of Obama’s closest allies — say it’s not enough for the president to pronounce his trade agenda the most progressive in history. The lawmakers want assurances that the…

A polling station in Cleveland in 2012. Democrats allied with Hillary Rodham Clinton began challenging voter restrictions with lawsuits in Ohio and Wisconsin, two key states in 2016. Credit Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times Democrats allied with Hillary Rodham Clinton are mounting a…

A view of humvees parked at a courtyard at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, September 30, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when Islamic State overran the northern city of Mosul in June 2014, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday in an interview…

(Update: On June 5, Nestle India said it is withdrawing Maggi noodles from the market. The company said the product would be back in the stores soon.) The India unit of the world’s largest food company by revenues, Nestle, is in serious trouble after multiple regional governments banned its popular…

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With the theme The Invisible City, a collection of architects, artists and cyberfeminist researchers discussed the way our urban habitat can be improved.

The Team Disney building in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., which houses most of the company’s technology operations. Credit Brian Blanco for The New York Times ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were…

French archaeologists have uncovered the well-preserved body of a noblewoman who died 350 years ago – along with the clothes in which she was buried, including her cap and shoes, still intact. The corpse of Louise de Quengo, a widow from an aristocratic family from Brittany, was discovered in an…

The President and others have praised the U.S.A. Freedom Act, but haven’t mentioned the blindingly obvious fact that without Edward Snowden the law wouldn’t exist. Credit Photograph by CARSTEN REHDER / AFP / Getty Now that Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, the U.S.A. Freedom Act ,…

June 3rd, 1965 was a fine day for a spacewalk. As America’s Gemini IV spacecraft curved into its third orbit, astronaut Ed White pushed through the hatch and began his first stint of extravehicular activity (EVA). Tethered to the spaceship’s belly by an eight-foot golden cord, White tumbled around…

Truly INSPIRATIONAL footage of Felix Baumgartner jumping from space.

Tim Meek and his family decided they had had enough of their "ordinary" life, so they sold their house and went to live in a caravan. My family and I wake up in a touring caravan. After packing away the temporary bed - and converting the bedroom space into the dining room - we eat breakfast together…

I'm a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. I am not a world-class teacher by any means, but I am conscientious; I…

An exclusive look under the hood of the product that wants to be the world’s scrapbook Signe Brewster Jun 3, 2015 Unlisted Google Photos product lead Dave Lieb and I are time traveling. He pinches out on his phone screen and then scrolls through tiled pictures, flying back through the ‘oughts,…

Near the end of his freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ari Weinstein was offered $100,000 to drop out of school. Mr. Weinstein, now 20, had grown up immersed in technology. He created a website at age 7, started a software company in high school and released an iPhone app…

The night Hurricane Alicia struck Houston in the summer of 1983, shattering high-rise windows downtown and stacking sailboats in the marina, there were two engineers waiting on the top floor of the Allied Bank Plaza. The 71-story emerald glass tower—since renamed, and renamed again—had just opened…

PayPal users, this is for you. The payments company is rolling out an update to its user agreement that threatens to bombard you with "autodialed or prerecorded calls and text messages" — and worse, by agreeing to the updated terms, you're immediately opted in. PayPal can even reach you at phone…

Related NPR Stories Read More Stories From Our Series, 'Streaming At The Tipping Point' Recently, the rapper Jay Z relaunched the subscription streaming music service Tidal, which includes the option to listen to high-definition audio for $19.99 per month. Tidal's HiFi, with its uncompressed audio…

Kimberly Vardeman Climate & Energy By and Naveena Sadasivam on May 27, 2015 Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon This story was produced through a collaboration between ProPublica and Matter . State Route 87, the thin band of pavement that approaches the mostly…

After 30 years of dubious results and loud protests, the flagship of the supply-side drug war in North America has finally been brought to ground. Last month, acting on the recommendations of President Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's National Council on Dangerous Drugs (CNE) voted 7-1 to indefinitely…

Tax day doesn’t sting much if you live at the gilded edge, according to new data on how the top one-hundredth of one percent and the top one-thousandth of a percent of all filers pay their income taxes. People who make tens of millions of dollars enjoyed falling income tax rates and ballooning…

Apple CEO Tim Cook takes aim at Google: ‘Now even your family photos data mined and sold off for god knows what advertising purpose...’Photograph: MONICA DAVEY/EPA Apple chief executive Tim Cook has delivered his sharpest attack yet on rivals Google and Facebook , with a speech criticising their…

This post first appeared at Dollars & Sense . (Photo: digboston /flickr CC 2.0 ) Educational debt has become a ticking time bomb. With over $1 trillion in outstanding loan balances, the student loan industry has a lot in common with the sub-prime mortgage industry, which went into a devastating…

The CIA’s abuses under its “enhanced interrogations" program included practices beyond those known to the public, according to a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has turned into a cooperating witness for the government. Majid Khan claimed that interrogators poured ice water on his genitals,…

Last week, Richard Clarke, the man to whom nobody in the administration of C-Plus Augustus listened because what did he know, anyway?, had a chat with Amy Goodman in which he minced no words regarding his former employers. "I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war…

Closing down the web’s biggest drug shop has simply cleared the way for competitors ROSS ULBRICHT, better known by his online pseudonym, “Dread Pirate Roberts”, was sentenced to life in prison on May 29th for his part in running the Silk Road, a now-defunct website which was once the eBay of illegal…

We'd long suspected them, but in 2015 astronomers for the first time captured visual evidence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth. "For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed but by imaging them for the first time, we've…