点击 此处 阅读中文版 I've broken this story up into three chapters. It should never have gone this far, but the internet works in mysterious ways. None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It's truly crazy. Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed LONG, LONG AGO (January 2014 lol)... Bro…

How Growers Gamed California’s Drought

Compare that to the U.S., where renewables generate only around 13% of electricity. Of course, Costa Rica is tiny in comparison–with a population only about the size of Alabama. Because most people are relatively poor, energy use per household is low. And the country’s economy relies on tourism and…

I’m a couple of days late in writing about Tidal, Jay Z and friends’ new streaming service , so I’ve been saved the trouble of predicting it will fail. The most scathing and, unsurprisingly, best critique was levied by Bob Lefsetz . This is the key paragraph: Suddenly, just because Jay Z is a famous…

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Street names and address numbers aren’t always present in Costa Rica, so Waze is a godsend for anyone attempting to navigate. (Waze) “It’s a nightmare.” That’s how Eduardo Carvajal describes the Costa Rican way to give an address. “If I want to give the address of my office I say ‘Okay, go to the…

According to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, 5 percent of people visiting Google’s sites and services now have at least one ad injector installed. When it comes to malware, ad injectors may seem relatively benevolent at first. They put an ad on…

BUY land, advised Mark Twain; they’re not making it any more. In fact, land is not really scarce: the entire population of America could fit into Texas with more than an acre for each household to enjoy. What drives prices skyward is a collision between rampant demand and limited supply in the great…

Houseboats float in California’s drought-lowered Oroville Lake. Credit Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press PHILLIPS, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered mandatory water use reductions for the first time in California’s history, saying the state’s four-year drought had reached near-crisis…

A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called…

Last month, 15 graduates of Corinthian Colleges announced they would no longer pay their student loans. Since then, the debt strikers' ranks have grown to 100, and today they're meeting with the feds in Washington. The students say they were persuaded to take on the loans based on promises of career…

Not many students have the cutting-edge cybersecurity skills the NSA needs, recruiters say. And these days industry is paying top dollar for talent. Brooks Kraft/Corbis "I was at a Dartmouth career fair a few months ago, and our table was right across from Facebook. And we are looking for some of…

Facebook accused of tracking all users even if they delete accounts, ask never to be followed

Steal Like An Artist : 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative by Austin Kleon is a quick read that gives excellent instructions, healthy encouragement and real advice to any budding artist (i.e. creative types) while maintaining a good balance of quirkiness and humor. 1. Steal like an artist…

“I gotta get the guns,” Scott Digiralomo tells me over his shoulder as he leads me down the cinder block hallways of the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Morristown, New Jersey. Digiralomo, director of the county’s Department of Law and Public Safety, ducks into an empty room and, out…

The North Blake Street area of Pine Bluff is home to many fast food restaurants, convenience stores and other minimum wage employers. (Russ Scalf for The Washington Post) This article has been updated as of 7:30 p.m. S hanna Tippen was another hourly worker at the bottom of the nation’s economy,…

The overnight tryst began in Baltimore, with three men, two dressed as women. It continued at a motel on U.S. 1, and when one of the men woke up Monday morning, his two cross-dressing companions, and his Ford Escape, were gone. The dark-colored Escape was headed south on the Baltimore-Washington…

Robyn Scott Feb 18, 2014 There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several…

Disruptions Credit James O'Brien Apps like PayPal, Square, Breadcrumb, Apple Pay and Facebook’s new payment feature are supposed to be making paying for things easier. Want to figure out a complicated dinner tab among five friends? Just tap a few buttons on your smartphone. But the advent of these…

I f you ask Anthony Weiner , digital records—especially those on the Internet—can seem impossibly hard to get rid of. When a picture or document is reduced to a series of 1s and 0s, it becomes transmissible, reproducible, downloadable, and storable. You can’t burn digital books, and ideas like cloud…

SEOUL (Reuters) - A $50 portable media player is providing many North Koreans a window to the outside world despite the government’s efforts to keep its people isolated - a symbol of change in one of the world’s most repressed societies. By some estimates, up to half of all urban North Korean…

Exploiting entanglement to classify high-dimensional vectors for quantum accelerated machine learning. Credit: Chao-Yang Lu and Xin-Dong Cai (Phys.org)—For the first time, physicists have performed machine learning on a photonic quantum computer, demonstrating that quantum computers may be able to…

On the so-called dark web, drug dealing and other illicit sales have thrived in recent years, the authorities have said, through hidden websites like Silk Road and hard-to-trace digital currencies like Bitcoins. On Monday, the government charged that in the shadows of an undercover investigation of…

The year is 1986, and you operate one of the largest carrot farms and processing plants in California. The weather is beautiful, your farm is vast, and business is good. Life is perfect except for one thing: every day, you need to throw out tons of the vegetables you worked so hard to grow, because…

​ The collapse of our planet's natural ecosystem is accelerating, but it turns out nature may have already developed the technology to save us. And it's right under our feet. Mycelium​ is the vast, cotton-like underground fungal network that mushrooms grow from—more than 2,000 acres of the stuff…

Over the last year, Reddit’s “dark net markets” discussion forum has grown into one of the central fixtures of the online drug scene. At any given moment, hundreds of redditors are browsing reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets , many brazenly discussing anonymous online sales on the open internet. Now the…

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theinspirati... "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking." Carl Sagan Music: Michael Nyman - Second Morrow, The Other Side & The Arrival Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for…

Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband’s 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I’d never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was, across from an old park, abandoned in the chilly September air. The clouds hung low as I…

By csteinmetz1 More by the author: The first question you might have about this instructable is why would I need to spoof my MAC address. Well , there are two answers. One, you need to change your MAC address so you network will recognize your device and allow it to connect . Two, for malicious…

In our previous article in this series on the history of depression , we saw that its origins have alternatively been chalked up to a number of theories: excess of “black bile” in the body, the sin of sloth, wrong thinking, enervating luxury, conflicts in the subconscious, and a biological imbalance…

Editor’s note : Public radio produces a lot of audio — but it doesn’t always get the attention on sharing platforms that it might deserve. Our friends at NPR Digital Services want to fix that, which led to a series of experiments. Here, NPR’s Eric Athas shares some of what they found. By now you’ve…

Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka prepare to blast off.Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/REUTERS The American astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko have blasted off to begin a year away from Earth. Gennady Padalka of Russia is also riding in the Soyuz…

User-tracking systems rare but not unprecedented Programs like AT&T’s Internet Preferences are not unprecedented. Charter, a cable company, planned to implement a similar tracking and advertising system in 2008, but decided not to after facing criticism . A rural provider called CMA Communications…