The huge gap between current CMS offerings and what the world needed occurred to me during my time as CTO of The Huffington Post . When we were acquired by AOL in 2011, I inherited 53 properties built on dozens of different content management systems. It wasn't long after that I soon realized they…

You may not know it but most of today's smartphones have FM radios inside of them. But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices. That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off. The National Association of Broadcasters has been asking mobile makers to change this. But…

On a visit to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, I found myself sitting across from a man named Karma Ura, spilling my guts. Maybe it was the fact that he was named Karma, or the thin air, or the way travel melts my defences, but I decided to confess something very personal. Not that long before,…

I was about to pick up my cell phone when I realized I still had rhino horn lotion all over my hands. It wouldn’t come off. The lotion was surprisingly thick and creamy, and when I brought it to my nose it smelled faintly of a musty old couch. Once I finally gathered enough tissues to wipe the…

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Matthew Gault Apr 13, 2015 Fat Leonard’s hookers and cash seduced the U.S. Seventh Fleet … and soaked taxpayers for millions by MATTHEW GAULT It was the middle of September 2013 and the U.S. Justice Department had laid a trap. Its target was the Malaysian millionaire defense contractor Leonard Glenn…

O ne day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. His parents had no idea where the guttural tic came from. They figured it was springtime allergies.…

James Simpson May 31, 2014 One doctor’s fight against the nutritional woes of a nation by JAMES SIMPSON In August 1882 in Incheon Bay near Seoul, four Japanese warships were locked in a tense stand-off with two Chinese warships that had brought troops to quell a revolt on the Korean peninsula. On…

The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei, Vol. 5: The Dissolution by an unknown author, translated from the Chinese by David Tod Roy Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri/John Lamberton ‘Pan Jinlian (Golden Lotus) Humiliated for Being Intimate with a Servant’; from Illustrations…

Suppose you were sitting at home, relaxing on a sofa with your dog, when suddenly your visual image of the dog gave way to that of a steaming bowl of noodles. You might find that odd, no? Now suppose that not just the dog changed, but the sofa too. Suppose everything in your visual field changed…

Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-41 by John Röhl, translated by Sheila de Bellaigue and Roy Bridge Cambridge, 1562 pp, £45.00, February 2014, ISBN 978 0 521 84431 4 In January 1904, King Leopold II of Belgium was invited to Berlin to attend a birthday dinner for Kaiser Wilhelm II.…

Cities throughout California have been upgrading their pedestrian signals to modern “countdown” style displays. You have probably seen them: They show the amount of time remaining for a pedestrian to cross the street. Studies confirm that countdown signals are effective for reducing collisions,…

Like Moby Dick meeting modern technology, a massive sperm whale was filmed cruising nearly 2,000 feet (600 meters) under the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday by a remotely operated vehicle. It was an extremely rare encounter due to the great depths sperm whales dive to and their typically reclusive nature.…

The Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking to recoup millions of dollars from technology giant Apple over a problem-plagued curriculum that was provided with iPads intended to be given to every student, teacher and administrator. To press its case, the Board of Education on Tuesday…

An Airbus A350 on an assembly line, in Toulouse, France, April 11, 2015. Remy Gabalda/AFP/Getty Seven years after the Federal Aviation Administration first warned Boeing that its new Dreamliner aircraft had a Wi-Fi design that made it vulnerable to hacking, a new government report suggests the…

The sprawling construction sites buried below NYC are carefully regulated places, inaccessible to the public. But one photographer has been exploring these caverns and tunnels for 15 years at the MTA’s request—and his work paints an amazing picture of life underground. His name is Patrick Cashin,…

Judges in the future could tap straight into criminal brains and nip second offenders before they've had a chance to do it again, says the Obama administration. Incriminating biomarkers could eventually be used by courts to predict recidivism and influence decisions about parole, bail and…

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Exercise has had a Goldilocks problem, with experts debating just how much exercise is too little, too much or just the right amount to improve health and longevity. Two new, impressively large-scale studies provide some…

I am a good bullshit detector. Apparently, not good enough to have sensed that Keiretsu Forum and Collision Conference are parasites. Congratulations to both of you for wasting my time! Well done! You both reached out, pretended to screen our startup, asked good questions, made me present, and then…

Nootropic Brain Drugs Rise in Popularity for Today’s Cutthroat Corporate Climbers

Several months ago, Marco Zappacosta was the uncontested king of the hill. His local services start-up, Thumbtack, was dominating its segment of the market, expanding at breakneck pace, hiring big-name executives , and riding a whopping $100 million fundraise from the likes of Google Capital, Tiger…

A day after Flipkart exited from the Airtel Zero platform, Cleartrip, NDTV, Newshunt and the Times Group announced that they are stepping away from Facebook’s internet.org initiative today. The Times Group will be pulling out TimesJobs and Maharashtra Times from Internet.org, and has committed to…

Disruptions Credit Gary Hallgren Last week, I started keeping my car keys in the freezer, and I may be at the forefront of a new digital safety trend. Let me explain: In recent months, there has been a slew of mysterious car break-ins in my Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles. What’s odd is that…

France’s latest proposed law may just scare off one of its biggest digital champions. After the French Government revealed a proposed law, nearly one year in the works, last month, critics jumped on what they consider to be an overreach of the government’s power without checks & balances. Among the…

Lecce Journal Luciano Faggiano and his sons were digging to fix a pipe in Lecce, Italy. They found a buried world tracing back before Jesus. Credit Davide Monteleone for The New York Times LECCE, Italy — All Luciano Faggiano wanted when he purchased the seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via…

State of the Art Credit Stuart Goldenberg Around this time every year, Joseph Bankman , a professor of tax law at Stanford Law School and a longtime advocate of using technology to simplify tax filing, gets on the phone with reporters to explain what is wrong with how we do our taxes in the United…

In 1996, the 19-year-old bought a webcam and set it up in her room to take a photo every 15 minutes and post it to her website: JenniCam. Her experiment offered the world a glimpse into our digital future long before Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the Kardashians. JenniCam was huge. Its star…

The mysterious stuff known as dark matter just became less ghostly. It makes up 85% of the total matter in the cosmos and comprises some 27% of the known Universe. For the first time, the enigmatic quantity may have been caught interacting with other dark matter in a cluster 1.4 billion light-years…

European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference at European Commission headquarters in Brussels on November 20, 2014. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Five years ago the European Union began an investigation into whether Google violated its antitrust laws. Now it has finally…

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2019 Session The 2019 Legislative session has begun. This year, we have several bills we are supporting. You can learn more about each and their current status at the link. Learn More ACLU of New Mexico Follow @ACLUNM Home Issues Aid in Dying Border Rights Capital Punishment Corrections Reform…

A celebration of the sandwich, and an attempt to create a taxonomy for its many diverse forms. Related Article Stuart Palley for The New York Times By SAM SIFTON Here is a celebration of the sandwich’s diversity in the United States, an attempt to bring order to the wild multiplicity of its forms.…

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You hear a lot nowadays about the magic of big data. Getting hold of the right numbers can increase revenue, improve decision-making, or help you find a mate—or so the thinking goes. In 2009, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a crowd of education researchers: “I am a deep believer in the…

More than three years have passed since Canadian police seized 32 Megaupload servers on behalf of U.S. authorities seeking to prosecute company founder Kim Dotcom in one of the world's largest copyright infringement cases. Still, no one — except perhaps officials with the file-sharing company itself…

They were coming home from a park, on this gorgeous, blossoming weekend, after playing. And for this, a 10-year-old and his 6-year-old sister ended up in the back of a squad car. Again. For hours this time. In the bizarre nationwide culture war over how much freedom children should have to play…

March23, 2015 3 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We should all be getting a litttttle nervous: The robot apocalypse is brewing. Or at least, that's what a growing number of tech visionaries are predicting. In an interview with the The Australian Financial…

George Washington University. (Photo by Mary F. Calvert For The Washington Post) When George Washington University announced last week that it was laying off nearly 50 employees to reduce costs, the university’s president, Steven Knapp, blamed a decline in enrollment in graduate and professional…