The virtual reality game Eve Online.Photograph: Eve Online N ataliia Dmytriievska was 15 years old and enveloped by flames when she first heard the call of outer space. A year earlier her boyfriend had taught her the basics of poi, a Maori dance in which performers swing flaming, tethered weights to…

If a food makes a significant portion of the population physically ill, should a country keep producing it? That sounds like a trick question, but it isn’t. With over 37 million tonnes in 2012, China is now the third largest producer of cow’s milk in the world by weight (behind the US and India),…

Here in California, the record-breaking, headline-making drought is always on our minds. A NASA scientist warns that we may have just one year's worth of water left, and Governor Jerry Brown has urged us all to cut our showers short and let our lawns go brown. But the governor's plea won't solve…

By Dezan Shira & Associates Editor: Kimberly Wright China is updating its food safety law for the first time since 2009, in what is hailed as the harshest food safety regulation in China so far. The 2015 Food Safety Law will have a significant impact on both domestic and foreign firms involved in…

Install CFG by dragging the link to bookmarks When surfing around the web, sometimes you will hit a paywall to see the content. This is terrible UX in my opinion. I understand that companies need to make money one way or another and it might be a better choice than to put on some ads on the page.…

Your customers are here. You should be too. You’re an investor, a buyer, a marketer, an industry expert, and you need effective means to reach your target audience, build relationships and close sales to drive your business forward. Questex can help you do it. As a global business information…

One crisp day last March, Harvard professor John Kovac walked out of his office and into a taxicab that whisked him across town, to a building on the edge of the MIT campus. People were paying attention to Kovac’s comings and goings that week. He was the subject of a fast-spreading rumour. Kovac is…

I’ve wanted to write this article for some time now, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do so. For those of you who are aware of Dinofarm Games and our recent release, Auro for iOS and Android , you know that we spent literally years producing carefully handmade, meticulous pixel art.…

Nature | News Sharing DNA from microbes living on the human body can be used to identify individuals. Ewen Callaway Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Eye of Science/Science Photo Library DNA from bacteria in human faeces could be used as a ‘gut print’ to identify individuals. Call it a ‘gut…

On May 7th, 2015, the Second District Court of Appealsruled that the NSA's bulk collection of phone call data using Section 215 of the PatriotAct is illegal . This decision, if upheld, would end the NSA's capabilityto suck up bulk phone call data. Now Congress is trying to pass a bill—the USA…

Matter Birds evolved from dinosaurs 150 million years ago, a slow but thorough transformation. Their bodies gained aerodynamic feathers, their digits fused into wings, and they acquired a beak used to gather food. We can see some details of this evolutionary marvel in the fossil record. Yet even the…

Photo-illustration by David Herbick A half-hour east of Seattle, not far from the headquarters of Microsoft, Amazon, and other icons of the digital revolution, reSTART, a rehab center for Internet addicts, reveals some of the downsides of that revolution. Most of the clients here are trying to quit…

When TE Lawrence - immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia - died 80 years ago he could not have known that the accident which took his life, and the surgeon who tried to save him, would eventually help to save thousands of others. It was pouring with rain on the morning of Sunday 19 May 1935 when TE…

"I've seen you on the news" In December 2013, Pyle had his first court date. His lawyer, Rebecca Skordas, filed a motion to suppress the evidence from the database in the case. The ACLU also intervened on his behalf. “I think that Ryan and his wife showed a great deal of courage to continue to…

Nature | News Sharing Translations عربي Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles. Davide Castelvecchi Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Eric Meola/Corbis Lightning is only the most visible product of clouds’ intense electric fields. When…

"Sure, it's got a great view. But have you read these antiquated tax codes that got me a huge break?" One57 Kriston Capps May 11, 2015 It’s the extreme end game of a tax code that shifts the burden from owners to renters, and from the wealthy to the poor. When a duplex condominium in New York's new…

Almost exactly a year ago, Mozilla announced that it would (very reluctantly) implement the HTML5 DRM specs into Firefox. Today, the organization officially launched HTML5 DRM support with the release of Firefox 38. In addition, however, Mozilla also announced the launch of a separate Firefox…

Private Messaging App Rolls Out for iOS and Adds “Whisper” Messages Since our open alpha release last September , a lot has happened in the private messaging space. Services have come and gone, some have been breached and patched, and in many cases, users have been left feeling violated, or at the…

( This story has been updated with comments from the plaintiff's attorney .) A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.…

Does your father still use that fancy fishing rod you got him last spring? Did your significant other like the new watch, and that witty custom engraving? Do you enjoy working on your new 4K monitor, sharp enough to slice through a medium rare steak? These might be the perks and gifts you could have…

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YouTube YouTube’s office is filled with its history. Inside the San Bruno, California, headquarters, about 45 minutes from the Googleplex in Mountain View, there’s a YouTube video on every screen. Over here, the SmarterEveryDay guys talk about the brain-bending backwards bicycle . Over there, Rick…

I believe that it is fundamental to have an overview of the history that later formed Computer Science. People know work of individuals such as Dijkstra. But, there are several individuals who led to computers even existing. It was a process that started in the early 800s, and started to grow in the…

In the wake of all the Edward Snowden revelations, a seemingly endless series of encryption apps, all promising some degree "NSA-proof" security, have come out trying to take advantage of this new anti-surveillance business opportunity. But despite some apps' relative success, the reality is that…

[Epistemic status: Low confidence. I have found numbers and stared at them until they made sense to me, but I have no education in this area. Tell me if I’m wrong.] I. There has recently been a lot of dumb fighting over who uses how much water in California, so I thought I would see if it made more…

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Joel Hodgson/Guido Fetta/Cannae.com Imagine an engine with nothing powering it. There are no moving parts, nothing appears to be coming out the back, and when you look inside, there’s nothing there either. This is the unbelievable premise behind the "EM drive" — a hypothetical space drive that we’ve…

Verizon is getting into the news business. What could go wrong? The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company in the world is bankrolling a technology news site called SugarString.com. The publication, which is now hiring its first full-time editors and reporters, is meant to rival…

Author: Jakob Schiller. Photo Date of Publication: 05.12.15. Time of Publication: 7:00 am. 7:00 am Slide: 1 / of 15 . Caption: Caption: The Shuogang group steel factory, Beijing. Despite the government promising to close all major polluting factories within city limits following the 2008 Olympics,…

The president of the self-proclaimed micro-nation of Liberland — the world's newest state, which exists on a remote patch of land in southern Europe — was arrested this weekend for attempting to enter his own self-professed country. Czech politician Vit Jedlicka — the leader of Liberland, an…

When Morgan Spurlock famously spent a month eating large portions of McDonalds for the purposes of his documentary Supersize Me , he gained weight, damaged his liver and claimed to have suffered addictive withdrawal symptoms. This was popularly attributed to the toxic mix of carbs and fat plus the…

A secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the country's third such deadly attack since the start of the year. Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by masked men with machetes in Sylhet, police say. He is said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists. Mr Das…

A troubling lawsuit coming out of California alleges that a woman was fired from her job after she uninstalled an app that her employer requested all employees had to download. The troubling aspect of the story is that the app in question was capable of tracking employee location data even when…

Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -1.63% Chief Executive Elon Musk says he never told an employee to miss his child’s birth. A new biography about the head of the electric car company , “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” by Ashlee Vance, claims that Musk sent a chastising email…

A dad has been incorrectly accused of being a pedophile on Facebook by a woman he doesn't know. The woman is now mortified and begging for forgiveness. Both say they are "devastated" by the events surrounding the misunderstanding. The moral of the story: Don't post stupid things on social media. The…

The traditional taxi business faces intense pressure in New York and around the globe as Uber, Lyft, Via and other ride-sharing apps disrupt old business models. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Late last month, the Observer ran three stories chronicling the shocking and rapid decline of the traditional…

Brains, like everything else, decompose. But nature has a way of halting that decay. Brain tissue is very soft and full of water, and through autolysis it usually begins to decompose rapidly after death. Nevertheless, it can sometimes be preserved. In 1998, archaeologists excavated the fossilised…

Friend me on Facebook! http://on.fb.me/gCSs8F Sources: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_guevara, Huffington Post, USA Today, Reason TV, and various other articles. Che Guevara is considered by many to be a hero and savior of the people, but in…