Internet Access for All Holly Leonard has been homeless on and off for years. There was a stint in jail and, more recently, a period in a women’s homeless shelter, while her husband slept in their car. But last month, the two moved into a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, Calif., complete with a…

Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be legal too. How do we know? We did it. Mike Power Jan 29, 2014 Illustrations by Tim Marrs AT MIDDAY ON A THURSDAY this past April, a radio call crackled through from an ambulance team to the emergency department of Calvary Hospital in…

Prosecutors say they have evidence indicating the former head of computer security for a state lottery association tampered with lottery computers prior to him buying a ticket that won a $14.3 million jackpot, according to a media report. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, may have inserted a thumbdrive into…

It's 7 AM, April 13th, 2025. Your smart clock rouses you from a dreamless sleep and you climb from bed as your house comes to life. The bathroom light turns itself on and the shower begins to heat its water. After washing off, you throw on a T-shirt which has been perfectly fit for your body. You…

Tumbling interest rates in Europe have put some banks in an inconceivable position: owing money on loans to borrowers. At least one Spanish bank, Bankinter SA, the country’s seventh-largest lender by market value, has been paying some customers interest on mortgages by deducting that amount from the…

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At the crest of a swell, an orange wing sticks straight up out of the ocean, like the fin of a miserable orca waving to the crowd at SeaWorld. That speck of color some 800 feet from the research vessel Paragon is part of an advanced seagoing robot, a drone, and the wing contains its antenna—which is…

Starting last week, hackers foiled a handful of software providers that promote freedom of information by helping web surfers in China reach the open Internet. The attacks that drastically slowed the anti-censorship services of San Francisco-based GitHub and China-based GreatFire.org emanated from…

Mike Rundle Apr 13, 2015 When Apple first showed off the Apple Watch, I was stunned. It looked glorious and larger than life. Shiny and precision-machined. Like an object from the future that time-traveled back to the present just to blow everyone away. This past Friday, the first day that the…

RT/Ruptly In a procedure that would be nothing short of revolutionary, a 30-year-old Russian man has volunteered to be the first person to have his head transplanted onto another human body. In an interview with Russia Today , Valery Spiridonov, the volunteer, explained that he has a rare muscle…

No need to tip the staff at this hotel. Japan will open the first hotel that is entirely staffed by androids. The hotel will be named " Henn na ," which is Japanese for strange hotel. Advertisement The two-story hotel is set to open on July 17 and it will be situated at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park…

Saudi Petroleum Minister Ali al-Naimi Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP Last fall, as oil prices crashed, Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s petroleum minister and the world’s de facto energy czar, went mum. He still popped up, as is his habit, at industry conferences on three continents. Yet from…

Edgar Allan Poe believed that handwriting is an indication of character , revealing our “mental qualities.” Mary Gordon saw in its “flesh, blood and the thingness of pen and paper” a reminder that “however thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our invention, we inhabit a corporeal world.”…

In radio, we don't punctuate — at least, not on the air. Nevertheless, we're honored to meet a woman who is at the pinnacle of punctuation. Mary Norris is a copy editor at The New Yorker , a magazine justly famous for the care it takes with words. The work of very well-known authors has felt the…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and…

The Royal Game of Ur 2600 BC Within the past few years board games have gone through an explosion of growth. In 2012 The Guardian went as far as dubbing it “ A Golden Age for Board Games ”, stating board games have seen a growth rate as high as 40% year over year. It’s also quickly becoming one of…

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Tripwire recently hosted a webcast entitled, “ PCI Breach Scenarios and the Cyber Threat Landscape with Brian Honan: Real World Cyber Attacks and Protecting Credit Card Data .” For our presentation, Brian Honan (CISM, CGEIT, CRISC), an information systems and cybersecurity specialist and a member of…

Photograph: David Levene/Guardian T he final chapters of The Bone Clocks , David Mitchell’s 2014 novel, describe a future in which progress has gone into reverse. In 2043, the fossil fuel age is over: nuclear power stations ar e melting down, there is no access to the electricity grid and solar…

Gogo plane Wi-Fi blocks YouTube (and can read your email)

When YouTube released an app specifically for kids a couple months back, many parents rejoiced. If the app worked as promised, they'd have to worry less about their kids stumbling onto grown-up content on the video network, much less on cable's carnival of depravity. But a more insidious threat may…

Meet Sydney Smoot, a 9-year-old fourth grader in Hernando County, Fla., who has more confidence than many adults. Smoot wrote (with help from her mom) and powerfully delivered (all by herself) a speech about Florida’s new standardized test, the FSA, or Florida Standards Assessment that drew loud…

The Assistant Economy The Assistant Economy Welcome to the main artery into creative or elite work—highly pressurized, poorly recompensed, sometimes exhilarating, more often menial. From the confluence of two grand movements in American history—the continued flight of women out of the home and into…

Apparently, the NSA's massive surveillance program wasn't a first: it was modeled after a precursor that ran from 1992 until 2013. According to USA Today , that program was called USTO, because it monitored almost every American's calls from the US to other countries. It was a joint initiative by…

In our previous blog post , we started talking about the most common WordPress errors and how you could fix them. We talked about the following problems: Internal Server Error Syntax Error in WordPress Auto-Update Failed Error Establishing A Database Connection Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled…

HackerNews is the most popular news site in the tech industry and one of the top choices for new product releases. A made-up word “HackerNews-effect” is often used to describe the traffic spikes brought by popular HN stories. The overcrowding of threads on HN has made its front page the holy grail…

A team of security researchers have found malware in a popular Chrome extension which may have sent the browsing data of over 1.2m users to a single IP address. ScrapeSentry credits its researchers with uncovering "a sinister side-effect to a free app [...] which potentially leaks [users'] personal…

Government Keeps Its Eyes on the Road with Invasive License Plate Reader Program Security & Surveillance Written by Jake Laperruque On April 2, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) that describes how the DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) –…

I recall as a graduate student hearing a distinguished philosopher muse about our crazy profession. Very few individuals become great, world historical philosophers, but people often hope to become one of these giants, in spite of the impossible odds. I raised the issue years later in conversation…

According to the CNN Russian hackers used data gathered from State Department to run a Phishing campaign against White House staffers. On October 2014, the Reuters Agency published the news that a suspicious activity had been detected on the Executive Office of the President (EOP) network .…

Planet lovers take note: Venus is spinning even slower than astronomers thought, according to new data from a European space probe. In the early 1990s scientists with NASA's Magellan mission calculated that a single rotation of Venus takes 243.015 Earth days, based on the speed of surface features…

The robots haven’t just landed in the workplace—they’re expanding skills, moving up the corporate ladder, showing awesome productivity and retention rates, and increasingly shoving aside their human counterparts. One multi-tasker bot, from Momentum Machines, can make (and flip) a gourmet hamburger…

A few years ago, when I was reading some popular weapons forum, I thought of how much a gun might cost at the black market. Actually, I wasn’t going to buy one, as I had an arsenal of legal weapons of my own. I was just curious about it. Let’s see what discoveries I made. One of the samples…

Mars distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes – between the blue lines, in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as the surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that there are…

A stingray, made by Harris Corp. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office The police department in Erie County, New York fought hard to prevent the New York Civil Liberties Union from obtaining records about its use of a controversial surveillance tool known as a stingray. The reason why may be because of…

Los Angeles — Human Rights Watch, a nonpartisan organization that fights human rights abuses across the globe, filed suit against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration late Tuesday for illegally collecting records of its telephone calls to certain foreign countries as part of yet another…

As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways. "NASA science activities have provided…