Angel Say May 4, 2015 Exactly a year ago today, I was getting ready to present my hack for the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Hackathon. In 24 hours I had built Vrban, a VR application for visualizing the impacts of proposed projects in urban environments. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Most…

Is “digital native” a code word for “young”? Popularized by education writer and consultant Marc Prensky , the term digital native has been used to refer to a member of the younger generation weaned on the web and immersed in the language of digital technology. Fortune writer Vivian Giang jobs…

In this March 31, 2015 photo, Swiss pilots Andre Boschberg, left, and Bertrand Piccard stand in the cockpit of their solar powered plane after it touched down at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality. Borschberg said Sunday, May 3, 2015 that he is…

It's not just consumer demand that's constraining supplies of Apple Watch. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has discovered a major defect with the watch's taptic engine, which is what causes the device to vibrate or "tap" users whenever they receive notifications and alerts. Only two…

Plenty of fish in the sea? Sure. But you won't find any in the Atlantic Ocean's newly discovered dead zones. In a paper published in Biogeosciences , researchers describe pockets of low-oxygenated water traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. They found these so-called dead zones in 100-mile long…

News Analysis I CONFESS I filed this column several weeks late in large part because I had hoped first to figure out a medical bill whose serial iterations have been arriving monthly like clockwork for half a year. As medical bills go, it’s not very big: $225, from a laboratory. But I don’t really…

The social group Ninja Networks throws a massive party at Defcon almost every year. In the last few years that I’ve been involved, they’ve taken on larger scale projects and built custom badges for the exclusive Ninja Party. This year we took on our largest project yet: building an entire cellphone…

‘Inequality Is a Choice’ THE eruptions in Baltimore have been tied, in complex ways, to frustrations at American inequality, and a new measure of the economic gaps arrived earlier this year: It turns out that the Wall Street bonus pool in 2014 was roughly twice the total annual earnings of all…

There is something peculiarly — even paradoxically — appealing about taking a dim view of human nature, a view that has become unquestioned dogma among many evolutionary biologists. It is a tendency that began some time ago. When the Australian-born anthropologist Raymond Dart discovered the first…

There’s a surplus of gamma rays spewing forth from the center of our galaxy, and astrophysicists say they don’t know where it’s coming from. One thing is clear, though: it could not have been caused by anything we consider ordinary in our galaxy. Related Tiny Black Holes The Many Worlds Theory Today…

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Two men are going to fight this weekend, and HBO and Showtime have already thrown the first punch in the legal fight over online streaming of the match. Taking advantage of an increasingly abused loophole in copyright law, they have just won a court order requiring a host of third parties to block…

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A Chinese team returned from Antarctica last month. China has chosen a site for a fifth research station on the continent. HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China ’s leader, Xi Jinping , who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of…

Gracia Lam W hile a strong trend in the culinary arts has been to let individual, natural ingredients shine through, one food has quietly come to dominate the retail market by merging a group of incongruous ingredients together. Mayonnaise, that familiar white goop hiding in your sandwich and…

Darien Cavanaugh May 2, 2015 Unlisted The agency’s literary ambitions shaped the industry by DARIEN CAVANAUGH During the Cold War, Moscow’s Ministry of Culture was a master of censorship. The Kremlin’s cultural bulwark screened non-Russian films, suppressed literature and shaped the lives of Soviet…

Editors' note: The original version of this story stated that it was illegal for employees in France to answer work emails after 6 p.m. This was referring to an agreement that only affects a portion of employees within certain unions, not a countrywide ban or law. We have updated this article to…

View more from the May 2015 Issue Explore the Archive Executive Summary When we make decisions, we make mistakes. We all know this from personal experience, of course. But in case we didn’t, a stream of experimental evidence in recent years has documented the human penchant for error. This line of…

I s the natural world creative? Just take a look around it. Look at the brilliant plumage of tropical birds, the diverse pattern and shape of leaves, the cunning stratagems of microbes, the dazzling profusion of climbing, crawling, flying, swimming things. Look at the “grandeur” of life, the…

Thanks to https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdyAnd... for the question! Shares appreciated! Twitters: https://twitter.com/cheerskevin There you go. Here’s the code that will get you past your first technical interview. By the way, don’t ever write things like that. So today, I got a question on…

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Nora Levinson May 1, 2015 I just got back from 12 hours in NYPD holding. If I can get arrested (with all of my white privilege and generally perceived non-threatening stature), so can anybody. In total over 1,000 people protested yesterday in New York, and over 120 were arrested. Here’s what that…

Your digital footprint. “Cybercriminals aren’t interested in a laptop or email addresses in isolation, but in stealing a victim’s online ID and gaining access

Everybody loves free Wi-Fi. It’s one of the number one reasons for choosing a hotel, and there are even websites dedicated to it. But it’s not safe. “Hotel

NAM aidsmap HIV & AIDS - Sharing knowledge, changing lives Home News Latest News Mismatch between US infant feeding policies and the lived experience of HIV-positive women 5 hours ago Cocaine use associated with poor adherence to PrEP and dropping out of care 22 February 2019 In the USA, only two in…

New McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook unveiled a turnaround plan for the struggling fast food giant Monday morning. And he did not mince words when discussing the company's problems. He said that the recent performance was "poor" and that "the numbers don't lie." Sales have fallen lately and the…

I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over? Had someone come to work early? I peered over my desk, afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch graffiti of the…

Map created by eupedia.com The map above, created by eupedia.com , shows the genetic makeup of European countries based on Haplogroups . These groups each share a common ancestor and can be one way of looking at the genetic makeup of a population. In humans, haplogroups can either be based on Y-DNA…

Like slavery war has a long history in our species, but it does have a history, a beginning, and perhaps an end. That is the sort of message you can take away from a paper such as Zefferman and Mathew’s An Evolutionary Theory of Large-Scale Human Warfare: Group-Structured Cultural Selection . War is…

Getty Images I was 21 and they wanted to pay me $21,000 a year to be a full time staff writer. A thousand bucks for every year of life. That sounded decent. How much did life cost? Who knew. I hadn’t lived any yet. What did staff writers at a paper make? I had no idea. I signed on the dotted line…

The most powerful hand crane in history multiplied the force of its operator 632 times The most common tower crane used in construction today has a lifting capacity of some 12 to 20 tonnes. For quite a few construction projects in ancient history, this type of crane would be completely inadequate.…

This past week has seen the steady rumble of thousands of tiny earthquakes radiating from off the coast of Oregon. Coupled with a sudden 8 foot drop in the seafloor—indicative of magma being withdrawn from reservoirs deep underneath the seabed—it seems likely that a powerful volcanic eruption is…

Last week the Supreme Court declined to hear Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School District, a Ninth Circuit case that held that a school district could stop

Jupiter is famous for its Great Red Spot, but the stormy planet may also be responsible for keeping the inner solar system calm. NASA/JPL Y ou are special, just like your parents used to tell you. You are a rare flower, a unique snowflake. Just like everyone else. How about our solar system? Is it…