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President Obama wants to shift his economic focus towards Asia.Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Legislation key to sealing a Pacific trade pact passed another important test in the US Senate on Thursday, boosting hopes for a deal that is central to Barack Obama’s strategic shift towards Asia. The…

About Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00 Los Angeles, CAPrint $3,000 pledged of $3,000 goal 44 backers Ever feel like our government is OUT OF CONTROL ? Gardener turns activist in this compelling story with real answers . Find out the secrets to taking charge, the way this country was…

Nature | News Feature Sharing Translations عربي A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness. Zeeya Merali 1 Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Dan Harris/MIT An experiment showing that oil droplets can be propelled across a fluid bath by the waves they generate has prompted…

The Cost of College A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to see the latest Disney movie. Because it was early in the afternoon, and my daughter is 5, I expected to get a significant discount on the price of our tickets. The electronic ticket kiosk had other intentions. “1 Adult: $11.00” and “1 Child:…

Jillian Scudder Apr 28, 2015 The Sun absorbs all the light that hits it. How long is it trapped? Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA. A false colour image of the sun taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. If a photon of light escapes from a star, when it hits another star, does it get absorbed and have…

It did not surprise me that almost every child in the D.C. public high school class raised a hand when I asked if any of them had been stopped and searched by the police. When I told them that being stopped without reasonable suspicion that they were committing a crime is a violation of the United…

Raphael Ouzan Contributor Editor’s note: Raphael Ouzan is the founder CTO and head of product at BillGuard . It’s hard to launch a consumer mobile app these days. Manage to build a stellar product that answers a true need? With more than 80 percent of the 1.4 million App Store listings qualifying as…

Spotify has just unveiled the newest version of the product at a media event here in New York City. Alongside the introduction of new media types, such as podcasts and videos, the service will also serve up playlists that are more personalized and relevant to what you’re doing at the time. “Music is…

The online payment service PayPal has agreed to pay $25m (£16.1m) of fines and compensation in the US after being accused of deceiving its customers. A government watchdog denounced the company for adding new members to a credit-card-like scheme without making them aware of the fact. It also said…

Five years after bringing high-tech jobs to the Midwestern states of Iowa and Missouri, International Business Machines Corp. has fired half its workers there -- sowing ire and disappointment for locals and officials alike. In April, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley wrote IBM to condemn the firing of…

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We learned this week that more than 317 million computer viruses or other malicious programs were unleashed by hackers last year, according to the Internet security firm Symantec.

The Economic Logic of (some) Amazingly Awful Websites Or why LINGsCars looks like it does. (Warning: turn down everything first). First, a little preamble: I'm increasingly convinced that people don't understand themselves how they succeed. Which is to say: Ling presents a story around her website…

Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg Lester Brown has spent his career making shrewd projections about the food, water, and energy people need to survive, and pushing governments to respond. None of this math brings tears to his eyes except…

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tanty0 In an effort to boost its independence from Western technology, Russia has announced that it will be creating its own mobile operating system, the Russian-language news site RBC reports ( English language summary ). Russia's Ministry of Communications is working with the Finnish company…

Anyone driving west from Washington DC towards the Allegheny Mountains will arrive before long in a vast area without mobile phone signals. This is the National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence. What is it for and how long will it survive? As we drive into the…

Tim Carmody May 20, 2015 or, How To Name Your Computer and Other Machines A comparative study of how users bring the devices and networks they use every day even closer For me, as for so many, it began with an external hard drive. Its name was “Dante.” This guy is handsome, but my hard drive looked…

Michael Wessel is a cleared liaison to two statutory advisory committees and was a commissioner on the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, as well as the international trade co-chair for the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign. “You need to tell me what’s wrong with this trade agreement, not one…

Edward J. Snowden appeared via streaming video at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm to receive an award in December. WASHINGTON — For an international fugitive hiding out in Russia from American espionage charges, Edward J. Snowden gets around. May has been another month of virtual globe-hopping…

All week, Motherboard contributor Daniel Oberhaus is exploring those isolated space analogs from around the world that have become integral in planning for long-duration space flight. This is part two of five. As it turns out, one needn't travel to the endless darkness of Antarctica in order to…

It’s just a common misconception that some website owners want you to believe. But there are arguments for either side, whether blocking ads from websites is immoral, or theft, or actually needed today. But let’s dig deeper into this topic. The business model „website“ First of all, not a single…

“Build a School in the Cloud”: Sugata Mitra at TED Talks in 2013 A case must be made, every once in a while, for the necessity of distaste—or else criticism risks turning into yet another way of enjoying commodities. The way we encounter the relatively recent phenomenon of TED is a good example, if…

The tools may look like boring rocks, but they show evidence of being much more. (MPK-WTAP) Researchers have reported evidence of stone tools over 3.3 million years old, putting the origin of tool use some 700,000 years earlier than previously assumed. That would mean that tools were used before our…

Why do vampires from Dracula to Angel seem to crave the blood of the young and beautiful? The undead may be onto something. Young blood, it seems, has special healing properties that have been lost in older blood. A recent finding by scientists from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Duke…

Gerrymandering -- drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party -- is a difficult process to explain . If you find the notion confusing, check out the chart above -- adapted from one posted to Reddit this weekend -- and wonder no more. Suppose we have a…

Indie music? Pffft. Indie music is way too main stream, man. All the cool kids are into music that no one has ever heard. Meet Forgotify . Forgotify tears through Spotify in search of songs with zero plays, playing only the songs that no one else has ever listened to. Certainly, there can’t be many…

The historic city of Palmyra has fallen almost entirely under the control of Islamic State, after forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad , collapsed under a seven-day siege that has left the magnificent ruins there exposed to near-certain destruction by the terror group. Activists…

In a Dec. 29, 2009, photograph, James Reynolds, president of the Cancer Fund of America, is pictured at the charity's headquarters in Powell. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission and all 50 states filed a federal lawsuit against four cancer charities — including the Cancer Fund of America —…

show chapters FTC sues phony cancer charities 12:36 PM ET Tue, 19 May 2015 | 01:48 Let the donor beware: A federal lawsuit alleges four cancer charities have scammed consumers out of more than $187 million. The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of…

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Story highlights Valencia College made students have transvaginal ultrasounds, suit says Students who sued say they experienced discomfort and embarrassment Suit says one defendant made sexually suggestive comments during a probing session (CNN) Two college students say they were forced to submit to…

Pop star sensation Madonna has never been fearful of inviting controversy - or causing it - as she just did with an image she posted to Instagram. On Sunday Madonna posted a controversial image to her Instagram page. The image is of a gay Orthodox Jewish man (left) about to kiss a gay Muslim man…

TOOELE COUNTY, Utah -- There’s a yearbook to mark every year 21-year-old Amber Bailey has completed in the classroom in Tooele County. But this year, the special needs student is missing from her copy of the book. “It’s kind of like they singled out the students who were in the transition program…