Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GETTY BATON ROUGE ( The Borowitz Report ) – In the aftermath of Irish voters legalizing gay marriage, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has used his emergency powers to ban all Irish products from the state. The sweeping trade sanctions will prevent popular Irish…

State senator Ernie Chambers, right, of Omaha, celebrates with senator Kathy Campbell, of Lincoln, after the Legislature voted 30-19 to override Governor Pete Ricketts, a Republican who supports the death penalty.Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP The Nebraska legislature narrowly voted on Wednesday to…

Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox/The Kobal Collection Silently, the drone aircraft glides above the arid terrain of New Mexico — until it suddenly pivots out of control and plummets to the ground. Then a mortar round rises from its launcher, arcs high and begins to descend towards its target — only to…

Every Friday just after lunch, the videogame developers at Bossa Studios in London's East End take a break from all the coding to try out their own work. This spring they were putting the finishing touches on Worlds Adrift, a so-called massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which…

At the apex of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray protests, 18-year-old Allen Bullock grabbed an orange street cone, leapt atop an unmarked police car, and smashed out its windows. Captured on camera , his actions would become the iconic image of the protests, appearing in newspapers across the world.…

“ Fiction is a dignified form of lies .” “ What’s hard to express is easy to understand .” “ Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity .” Professional aphorist and all round word nerd James Geary (TED Talk: Metaphorically speaking ) collects aphorisms like these — and…

State of the Art Credit Stuart Goldenberg In 2005, Google bought a tiny mobile software company named Android, and almost nobody in the technology industry saw its potential — not even Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and then chief executive. “One day Larry and Sergey bought Android, and I didn’t…

A 3D model of virus particles. The ability of viruses to specifically infect and kill human cells makes them promising cancer treatments.Photograph: Bernhard Classen/Alamy Patients with aggressive skin cancer have been treated successfully using a drug based on the herpes virus, in a trial that…

We're marching toward the singularity, the day when artificial intelligence is smarter than us. That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk worried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there's another option. Perhaps superintelligent artificial intelligence…

National By Sean Cockerham and Lesley Clark - McClatchy Washington Bureau May 26, 2015 04:48 PM The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md, June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) AP The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md, June 6,…

Over the long weekend, rather than taking a break, the hacker community was up in arms about proposed rules that would restrict the free and open use of attack tools and software exploits invaluable for their work. And some big voices have backed them, with Facebook , Google and Yahoo executives and…

The president urged the Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation that would renew telephone surveillance programs before authorities from the Patriot Act expire on Sunday night. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times WASHINGTON — With time running out, President Obama on Tuesday urged the Senate to pass…

There's a scene in the television series The Office that says all you need to know about the paper industry's image these days. That sad sack of a company Dunder Mifflin is launching an advertising campaign — and just in time, says one of the sad sack employees. Whenever he tells people he works for…

Stop the madness The long cycle times for developing mobile apps have led to startup failures that look more like 1999 – it’s like we’ve forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years. Stop the madness! Today, seed stage startups can now get funded, release…

Portable electronics -- typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials -- are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers' pursuit of the next best electronic gadget. advertisement In an effort to alleviate the environmental burden of electronic devices, a team of…

On the ad blocking front, the situation keeps getting worse. Until now, the media industry pretended to ignore the problem, perhaps waiting for a miracle cure. This might turn into a long lull. In the coming weeks, a large analytic firm will release disturbing figures on the state of the ad blocking…

The Guardian of Golden Gate An Interview With Kevin Briggs Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge) is a California Highway Patrol officer who has stopped upwards of two hundred people from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay. In this…

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Illustration: Aude Van Ryn for the Guardian I t was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy!…

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On a lazy Friday afternoon, a small group of primary school students open their laptops and, laughing and chatting, plunge straight into the world of computer programming. The children, starting as young as six years old, come each week to this out-of-school private learning centre in Hong Kong.…

The "Linux/Moose" worm turns routers into eavesdroppers, a covert channel for social network fraud, and a platform for spreading malware to client devices that connect through them to the Internet. ESET A worm that targets cable and DSL modems, home routers, and other embedded computers is turning…

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An apparent security vulnerability has left iPhone users susceptible to having their phones shut off with a simple text message. Image source: TheBlaze The vulnerability appeared to have been first discovered on Reddit . A thread was created and updated with information revealing everything the…

Ivy League presidential pay is looking more like the big leagues. Columbia University paid President Lee Bollinger $4.6 million in 2013, a 36 percent increase from the year before, according to a tax filing released Tuesday. Yale University recently revealed it paid former President Richard Levin a…

I n 2004, I moved to India to help found a new research lab for Microsoft. Based in Bangalore, it quickly became a hub for cutting-edge computer science. My own focus shifted with the move, and I began to explore applications of digital technologies for the socioeconomic growth of poor communities.…

Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Fusion Tech start-ups mint new millionaires every day. Many of these people are young Stanford and MIT graduates who live in Silicon Valley and spend years building their companies while subsisting on ramen noodles and Red Bull. Typically, they're not funeral…

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“An exciting new country now awaits you inside Walt Disney World’s Fort Wilderness.” “River Country is the kersplashingest, kid laughingest, slippery slidingest, raft ridingest, rope swingingest, swan divingest, summer swimmingest, sun snoozingest, picnickingest, old-fashioned, good, clean wet…

W hen you imagine France and its scenic countryside, you might think of the picturesque villages, vineyards a plenty and endless rolling green hills to drive through on a blissful summer road trip. But there’s one corner of this scenic country that no one has been allowed to enter for nearly a…

Aran Khanna May 26, 2015 Edit: At Facebook’s request I have again deactivated the *official* version of the extension. Furthermore, Facebook has deactivated location sharing from the desktop webpage so the extension will not work. When I came to college Facebook Messenger became an integral part of…

New laws to give police and spies greater powers to monitor internet and phone use are in the Queen's Speech. Downing Street said that measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill would provide the authorities "with the tools to keep you and your family safe". It will "address gaps" in intelligence…

Released May 12, 2015 * Directed by Judith Ehrlich * Produced by ExposeFacts.org Background: CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to Prison: The Latest Blow in the Government’s War on Journalism By Norman Solomon * The Nation * May 12, 2015 _________________________ Film Transcript: “The Invisible…

Utah's execution chamber. Via Wikimedia Commons /Flickr user KimChee When the Saudi Arabian government posted an ad on its civil service jobs portal looking to hire eight new executioners last year, the world got an interesting glimpse into the Gulf monarchy's HR process. The new recruits will be…

Chelsea Manning recalls fearing she would be ‘disappeared’ by US officials hell-bent on branding her the enemy.Photograph: http://www.chelseamanning.org The American soldier Chelsea Manning has accused US military guards of threatening her with exile to Guantánamo Bay without trial or acknowledgment…

* Farmers’ newspaper advertisements feature pitchforks * Canada’s trading partners say patience running out * U.S. official says many ways to boost imports By Krista Hughes OTTAWA, May 26 (Reuters) - Canadian farmers are stepping up their campaign against a nearly complete Pacific trade pact they…