uber By Emily Guendelsberger Published: 05/07/2015 | Two good-looking young strangers are having an amazing conversation in the backseat of my car. I'm eavesdropping so hard I nearly run a red light. Her : Then don't make me sign it. Ugh, it's like you're planning for this not to work. Him…

Americans so dearly love to be fooled. —Charles Baudelaire Swindle and Fraud, the vaudeville team of nouns headlining this issue of Lapham’s Quarterly , are old dogs always keen to learn new tricks, and their spirited performance during the Great Recession showcased the attention paid to their…

How one blog post changed my entire life. Andrew Watts May 6, 2015 Unlisted “Tell your story…” You see these words whenever you start to write on Medium. I stared at them as I began composing the post that would soon take over my life. On January 2nd I published on Medium a piece called “ A…

The world's oldest known blood cells have been found on Ötzi the Iceman, according to the latest research on the 5,300-year-old mummy. What's more, the discovery proves that the Stone Age homicide victim had a quick, if not painless, death. Ötzi has been the subject of extensive postmortem…

By now, many people know that the ocean is filled with plastic debris. A recent study estimates that the amount of plastic waste that washes off land into the ocean each year is approximately 8 million metric tons. Jenna Jambeck, the study’s lead author, helps us visualize the magnitude by comparing…

The Supreme Court has decided not to consider New Jersey’s ban on gay conversion therapy. The high court rejected a case Monday challenging a law Gov. Chris Christie (R) passed in August 2013 prohibiting state-licensed counselors from offering therapy services that try to change a minor’s sexual…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject the pending $48 billion merger of AT&T Inc and DirecTV unless its concerns about the deal are addressed. A Netflix spokeswoman said on Tuesday that the video streaming company does not oppose the merger…

Alia Salem, executive director of the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, speaks at the Muslim American Society press conference with Azhar Azeez, president of the Islamic Society of North America, and local attorney Khalid Hamideh.Photograph: Terri Glanger for the Guardian…

San Quintin (Mexico) (AFP) - The farmworkers go at a furious pace, kicking up clouds of dust as they crouch down to grab several tomatoes at a time, put them in plastic buckets and hurry them over to be weighed. The workers are all identified by numbers on this ranch in a dusty valley of Mexico's…

GREENVILLE, Mich. — In free trade, economists say, there is creation and destruction, winners and losers. In that equation, Jim and Patty Hoisington count themselves among those who lost. Theirs is the kind of cautionary tale that opponents of the the massive 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership…

Maybe something got lost in the translation.Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP O n Wednesday, Pope Francis spoke about women’s equality in St Peter’s Square, calling the wage gap between men and women a “pure scandal ” and calling for “radical equality between men and women” (at least, he did in…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner challenged Hillary Clinton on Sunday to help the White House get trade legislation through the U.S. Congress by speaking out in favor of it. Lawmakers are debating whether to give President Barack Obama fast-track…

T HE NIGHTMARE BEGAN just after sundown. At a dimly lit intersection in Iguala, police with automatic weapons surrounded three buses loaded with college students. The police opened fire. Screaming that they were unarmed, the students fled down darkened alleys, pounding on doors, desperate for…

As he recalled in Barbara Leaming's Orson Welles: A Biography , in his youth Welles was always a dynamo fueled by his addiction to art. He lived the manic life of a New York actor juggling theater responsibilities with the Mercury Theatre , radio, and, soon enough, Hollywood. The only constant was…

Eric Rachner and Phil Mocek. Among their findings: Of the 11 most-investigated SPD employees between 2010 and 2013, all continue to remain on the force. Kelly O F or most of their lives, Eric Rachner and Phil Mocek had no strong feelings about police. Mocek, who grew up in Kansas, said he regarded…

CSUN students helped raise awareness/ funds for Watsi - a non profit organization that enables anyone to directly fund medical care for people in need from third-world countries. Photo credit: Esmeralda Ramirez CSUN students helped raise awareness and funds for Watsi , a non-profit organization that…

Published March 17, 2017 Passcode signs off The Monitor’s cybersecurity and privacy project ends March 31. As the Monitor winds down its cybersecurity and privacy project, Passcode founders give special thanks to readers, writers, contributors, and sponsors, and look back on some of their favorite…

IBM's supercomputer Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals in the US and Canada, it has been announced. Using computers to trawl through vast amounts of medical data speeds up the diagnosis process. The system will help assess individual tumours and suggest which…

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The company left after the state's House and Senate were able to override Governor Sam Brownback's veto of a bill that would require Uber drivers to buy new insurance and pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation background checks. Kansas lawmakers want to make sure drivers have insurance that covers the…

Welcome to Less Than Zero Photo Illustration: 731; Photos: 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection; iStock Photo Illustration: 731; Photos: 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection; iStock JPMorgan Chase recently sent a letter to some of its large depositors telling them it didn’t want their stinking money…

Rafik Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon, was killed with 21 others in 2005, when a truck bomb exploded near his motorcade in Lebanon. 1. Ahmad Abu Adass In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was kind and liked…

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The Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has been accused of running a "massive security risk" after researchers found flaws in its software. Three vulnerabilities could be exploited to install malware on users' systems or to hand attackers a measure of control over them, it was reported. Lenovo…

That's how it looked like just after the German surrender! Fascinating moving pictures in color show the situation of the city in summer 1945 and daily life in the ruins. ----- Watch here the preview of the brandnew documentary "Spirit of liberation", restored original color and High Definition:…

There are more free, legal ways to stream music over the Internet than ever, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Grooveshark finally go offline after more than half a decade of legal battles and controversy. I had always just assumed that Grooveshark would be around forever, fighting the good…

SenseLabs Olympic volleyball player Kerri Walsh recently added a new routine to her training regimen. Three times a week, she spends about 20 minutes playing games on her iPad with a portable brain monitor strapped to her head. This device is called Versus, and it was developed by a company called…

This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Yik Yak founders Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll spoke as to why they believe their anonymous social app has soared while others in the space have instead folded. A sort of hyperlocal anonymous Twitter, Yik Yak initially grew in popularity with a younger…

Death Of A Programmer

This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Internet.org , its marquee project to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” is now inviting any website or service to join the program. According to Zuckerberg, this change—which follows criticism that the program…

Facebook's Internet.org has loosened the stranglehold on its free internet service in India and other countries. Now potentially any website can be accessed for free via the service as long as the site ditches HTTPS, JavaScript, and other things. The social network offers free mobile internet access…

A new study claims that Functional Connectivity in MRI Is Driven by Spontaneous BOLD Events The researchers, Thomas Allan and colleagues from the University of Nottingham (one of the birthplaces of MRI ), say that their results challenge the assumption that correlations in neural activity between…

This article appeared in EFFector , EFF's almost-weekly newsletter about cutting-edge tech policy issues. Subscribe by entering your email address in the box on the right-hand column of this page. In 1993, EFF founder John Gilmore approached me with an unusual proposition: he asked if I would serve…