This is Part 2 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, ____________ PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here ), and an ebook containing the whole…

Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons. Apple has become a perennial hit maker, the company other companies copy. Apple really gets design. In the past 14 years, it…

Diversity Events Newsletter Topics Data Analytics & Data Science Ben Rossi 3 June 2015 The era of computer folders is dead – now stop using them 'People rarely stop to think about the downsides of folder-based file management – and there are several' For decades, employees have been provided with…

The campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where the new gun law would take effect next year. Credit Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times HOUSTON — Students and faculty members at public and private universities in Texas could be allowed to carry concealed handguns into classrooms,…

‘Is this the place where I ask questions I can’t get answers to?’ - Phone question, September 13, 1947 Libraries have gone through many changes in recent years, some more laudable than others. Earlier this week we looked at the reinvention of the library card . Our original spotlight was on London -…

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Matanov and his lawyer Paul Glickman stand before Judge Marianne B. Bowler on Friday, May 30, 2014 in Boston. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins) Khairullozhon Matanov is a 24-year-old former cab driver from Quincy, Massachusetts. The night of the Boston Marathon bombings, he ate dinner with Tamerlan…

Hey everyone! Here's part three of my 100 favorite programming, computer and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one and part two for introduction. This time I'll be sharing my favorite books about Unix, logic programming, thermodynamics, and mathematical foundations of computer…

ScienceTake Almost. Scientists found that chimpanzees have the patience and foresight to hold off on eating raw food and put it in a device that seems to cook it. Chimpanzees have the cognitive ability to cook, according to new research, if only someone would give them ovens. It’s not that the…

News By: Posted: Jun 01, 2015 09:58 PM PDT Updated: Jun 01, 2015 09:58 PM PDT Copyright by KRON - All rights reserved Bay City News Service - SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- Starting on Monday and spanning the next three weeks, members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee have accepted…

Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life , from depression , to memory loss , Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and more. At the same time, similar to the topic of sleep , I found myself having very little specific and scientific knowledge about what exercise really does to…

Do you use Apple Pay? Or Google Wallet? Or any other mobile payment service on your smartphone? No, I didn’t think so. No one seems to be using their smartphones to pay for stuff. Well, almost no one. We don’t want to carry around credit cards, or even our wallets, right? But we still have to. With…

Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC’s Champions of Freedom event in Washington. Cook spoke remotely to the assembled audience on guarding customer privacy, ensuring security and protecting their right to encryption. “Like many of you, we at Apple…

Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller velociraptors. The theropods most closely related to avians generally weighed between 100 and 500 pounds — giants compared to most modern birds — and…

The possibility space enabled by my original PC box was pretty limited. By possibility space, I'm referring to all the potential games that could run on the hardware, whether those games were actually made or not. On that computer all games were very simple 2D games, with very few sprites on the…

The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act today by 67-32, marking the first time in over thirty years that both houses of Congress have approved a bill placing real restrictions and oversight on the National Security Agency’s surveillance powers. The weakening amendments to the legislation proposed by…

Breaking out of the hard drive prison The inexorable transition away from physical media is also leading to situations where games end up trapped on a specific piece of hardware, where they can be hard to archive in the long term. A prominent example of this popped up quite recently, when Konami…

These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop. But for early humans the notion that, by applying heat or fire, foods could be transformed into something tastier and easier to digest demanded huge cognitive insight — of the kind often believed to be limited to…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a news conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Aug. 18, 2014. ( JOHN STILLWELL/AFP) WikiLeaks put a hit out on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal Tuesday, offering $100,000 to anyone who turns over the chapters that have yet…

Photograph: Getty Images Photograph: Getty Images As the one-year cost of cancer drugs edges up to $200,000 per patient, a top doctor from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used his speech before a massive gathering of colleagues to call for limits on the cost of cancer therapies. “These drugs…

Skype says it has fixed a bug that caused its chat apps to repeatedly crash if a specific string of eight characters was sent to a user. The flaw affected its software on iOS, Android and some versions of Windows, but did not appear to affect Macs. "{We] have rolled out updates for all impacted…

By Jordi Giménez on June 3, 2015 - 9 Minutes If you follow our blog or have seen our website you might already know that Mobile Jazz is somewhat different in terms of how our team works. One of the foundations of the company is “Optimizing for Happiness”. You also might have already seen some of…

From Kiev to the Seychelles via London — how we uncovered the identity of the popular “mSpy” spyware This is a story of independent researchers following the tracks left by popular spyware developers and uncovering the multiple hidden faces this business has. We reveal every step that let us connect…

Part of Swiss Butoh dancer Imre Thormann's performance at Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine in Shiga (Japan) in summer 2006. The live music is by Swiss jazz pianist Nik Baertsch and his band "Mobile".

She also acted in local productions. A 2004 Miami New Times review of the romantic drama Stop Kiss , in which Sharon played one of the protagonists, Sara, hailed the play as “one of the best shows to hit South Florida in a long time.” The play is about a first kiss between two women, Callie and…

High-tech analysis of a 2011 DARPA Challenge shows why we can’t have nice things Mark Harris Feb 9, 2015 Unlisted Meet Adam. He’s a mid-level engineer at a mid-level software company in a cookie-cutter California office park. He can code a handful of languages, has a penchant for computer vision and…

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Photo by iStock/halfpoint By Bob Schildgen | May 28 2015 Hey Mr. Green, My friend is a master gardener who grows enough vegetables for him and his wife, with some to spare. His garden is in his backyard, so transport from there to kitchen is about 20 feet. Due to the drought, he has decided not to…

After a flurry of reports, last week the people behind geo-unblocking software Hola were forced to concede that their users’ bandwidth is being sold elsewhere for commercial purposes. But for the Israel-based company, that was the tip of the iceberg. Following an initial unproofed report that the…

All United Airlines flights in the US were grounded this morning for nearly an hour, over "dispatching information." Though United hasn't indicated the cause for the grounding, tweets from onboard passengers and a news report have indicated various possible reasons. "United began delaying flights at…

A story of rampant child abuse—ignored and abetted by the police—is emerging out of the British town of Rotherham. Until now, its scale and scope would have been inconceivable in a civilized country. Imagine the following case. A fourteen-year old girl is taken into care by the social services unit…

If you want to feel confident that you’ve done everything to help your high schooler excel on college admissions exams, you’d better be able to shell out serious dollars for specialized coaching. Or at least, that’s what commercial test-prep companies would have you believe. And that’s exactly what…

A Dutch man barely out of his teens is leading one of the most ambitious ocean cleanup efforts ever: to halve the amount of plastic debris floating in the Pacific within a decade. The man’s name is Boyan Slat, and he’s come up with a pretty ingenious way of doing it. Instead of clamoring around the…

First, the technology sector gave us Google's bean bags and Facebook's feted ping-pong tables. Now these companies are raising jousting skyscrapers into the Silicon Valley skyline. Facebook has just this month moved into new headquarters designed by Frank Gehry, designer of Spain's Guggenheim…

Update : We’re back! We were finally able to get hold of someone at Facebook and get our Facebook page back. Many thanks to everyone who tried to help and offered support. We contacted someone at Facebook through a reader in Chicago, who happens to work for a big newspaper. He had a contact in…

No country in Asia wants to choose between political allegiance to the United States and economic alignment with China. Nor can any country in the region be forced into such a choice. Efforts by Washington to do so create a zero-sum game with zero appeal. The debacle that followed recent US efforts…

55 Savushkina Street, the last known home of the Internet Research Agency. Credit James Hill for The New York Times The Tech & Design Issue From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life…