If you walk down Victoria Street in London on a beautiful, sunny afternoon, you’ll find dozens of picnickers sitting in Christchurch Gardens. Some will be suited up in jackets and ties, clutching briefcases in one hand and local supermarket sandwiches in another. Others will be tourists taking a…

(Reuters) - The European Parliament is preparing a non-binding resolution that proposes splitting Google Inc’s ( GOOGL.O ) search engine operations in Europe from the rest of its business as one possible option to rein in the Internet company’s dominance in the search market. European politicians…

A computer programmer whose massive public records request threatened Seattle's plan to put body cameras on its police officers has made peace with the police department. Today's Seattle Times reports that Seattle Police Department COO Mike Wagers has invited the man into police headquarters to meet…

The Hollywood Sign might be one of the most recognizable things on Earth. In Los Angeles, it’s also one of the most visible. You can see it from a plane as you glide into LAX. You can see it from a car as you drive up the 101 freeway. But a group of people who live near the sign are trying to hide…

UBER 4U CC-A-NA-SA by Adam Fagen James Losey Nov 20, 2014 Why We Should Be Asking More Questions About Uber Uber is in the bad publicity hot seat again with a leading story about comments made by Uber Senior Vice President Emil Michael on “digging up dirt” on critical journalists. Sarah Lacy, editor…

The statistics are staggering: Researchers predict that by 2025, the world will have 37 megacities, defined as urban areas with more than 10 million people. New York City and Newark are expected to have more than 23 million inhabitants; Tokyo, more than 38 million people. All told, well over half of…

In the early days of Facebook, a universal password reportedly gave the social network’s employees access to user accounts. Seven years later, Uber, another startup growing at lightning speed and writing the rules as it goes, faces a firestorm over its use of detailed data on its customers’ comings…

F rom our perspective here on Earth, constellations appear to be fixed groups of stars, immobile on the sky. But what if we could change that perspective? In reality, it’d be close to impossible. We would have to travel tens to hundreds of light-years away from Earth for any change in the…

A childhood picture of Jaylen Fryberg, the deceased gunman in the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting, with a goodbye message from a friend. Credit Photograph by Stephen Ehlers/Getty On Friday, October 24th, during the busy lunch hour in the school cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School,…

Last of a three-part series. To see the first two parts, click here and here . As plug-in electric vehicle sales continue to putt along, automakers are increasingly pinning their hopes on hydrogen fuel cells as the clean vehicle technology of the future. Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) produce zero…

Two scientific teams this year patched together some well-known technologies to directly exchange information between human brains. The projects, in the U.S. and Europe, appear to represent the first occasions in history that any two people have transmitted information without either of them…

The number of employees quitting their jobs is the highest it has been since early 2008, when the recession was just getting started. The number of vacant jobs is the highest it has been since 2001. The unemployment rate continues to fall. Only one thing has not changed: wage inflation. Is it time…

An aerial view of the cooling units at the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah. The legislation, proposed by Utah…

Department of Justice officials say a couple in Northern California couple have been indicted on federal drug charges related to the Silk Road 2.0 “dark Web” drug market after agents traced their internet activity. Chico, CA residents David and Teri Schell, 54 and 59, respectively, are charged with…

Apple has decided to end a bitter legal war against Google and Android phone makers, and to turn away from patent tactics that have cost the smartphone industry billions of dollars, according to reports and new court filings. The news comes in part via a landmark court order in which a federal judge…

Y ou have just been appointed Conservation Czar. But there is a catch. You can only save three animals. Look at the 12 animals below and click on the three that you would save. After you make your choices, you will learn about the endangered status of each animal. View Interactive If you chose to…

Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Press Inquiries Share Media Resources 1 images for download Access Media Media can only be downloaded from the desktop version of this website. Share Leave a comment Quantum entanglement is one of the more bizarre theories to come out of the study of quantum mechanics —…

Aurich Lawson On November 10, a 12-year-old girl left her home in the Baltimore suburb of Nottingham at 7:30am, heading to her middle school. She never returned home. When her mother called the school later, she discovered that her daughter had not even arrived. Suddenly, Baltimore County Police…

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last November, we published a story, ‘A Rape on Campus’ [RS 1223], that centered around a University of Virginia student’s horrifying account of her alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity house. Within days, commentators started to question the veracity of our narrative.…

Marketers are increasingly turning to social networks Facebook and Twitter in an attempt to start "conversations" and "relationships" with consumers. According to research firm Forrester, they might be wasting their time and money doing so. "You don't really have a social relationship with your…

After this, only several hundred applications to go. (Photo: 124247024@N07/Flickr) A few months ago, a friend considering a freelance writing career asked me how much money I make as a writer. I wanted to say, “You mean, what’s the going rate for a human soul ?” But I wasn’t close enough to this…

Robert was standing in the customs line at an airport in New Jersey when he realized he’d forgotten to eat the lunch he packed in France. Instead of declaring the apple and the orange he packed, he decided to smuggle them through, and then duck into a bathroom before the luggage scan and stuff his…

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been asked to explain his company's policies. Stephen Shankland/CNET Recent reports of Uber's lack of regard for user privacy has raised the attention of Sen. Al Franken, who has sent a letter to Travis Kalanick that asks the ride-sharing service's CEO to address the…

All photos by Chris Buck This summer, a friend called in a state of unhappy perplexity. At age 47, after years of struggling to find security in academia, he had received tenure. Instead of feeling satisfied, however, he felt trapped. He fantasized about escape. His reaction had taken him by…

Howard Lutnick had to rebuild Cantor Fitzgerald after losing nearly 700 people on Sept. 11, 2001, beginning with a search for the passwords only they knew. Credit Leslye Davis Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world’s largest financial-services firms, still cries…

If all the animals on Earth could offer a single lesson for long-term survival, it might be this: Sex works. Out of the estimated 8 million animal species, all but a smattering are known to reproduce sexually, and those that don’t are babes in evolutionary terms, newly evolved animals that recently…

Jelle Martens Eight years ago, Polish hacker Joanna Rutkowska was experimenting with rootkits—tough-to-detect spyware that infects the deepest level of a computer’s operating system—when she came up with a devious notion: What if, instead of putting spyware inside a victim’s computer, you put the…

The Fall of Facebook The social network's future dominance is far from assured.

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Dwight Eschliman/Getty Images When a major law enforcement crackdown killed the Silk Road 2 earlier this month , it scattered the Dark Web’s drug dealers. But one new and improved crypto market is welcoming and profiting from those refugees: an appropriately named website called Evolution. Since the…

F or Ryan Sherman*, a 34-year-old lawyer, something changed eight years ago when he moved from Texas to Europe and then to Boston and New York City: The shorter winter days of the more northern latitudes were like a dead weight on his emotions. “I’d get these depressions,” he says. His sleep…

In Ether One, your job is to dive into the mind of Jean Thompson, a sixty-nine-year-old woman diagnosed with dementia, and retrieve a series of lost memories. Ether One, a first-person puzzle game made by a six-person team at White Paper Games, in Manchester, England, is about the slow dissolution…

Cable and Wireless even went as far as providing traffic from a rival foreign communications company, handing information sent by millions of internet users worldwide over to spies. The firm, which was bought by Vodafone in July 2012, was part of a programme called Mastering the Internet, under…

This story is part of the New Boom series on millennials in America. "Millennial" is the buzzword of the moment — with much of the national conversation focused on stereotypes and anecdotes. But are young adults today really all that different from those of previous generations? Join The…

Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users' computers, to read their personal emails, listen in on private audio calls, record…

Our species is not going to last forever. One way or another, humanity will vanish from the Universe, but before it does, it might summon together sufficient computing power to emulate human experience, in all of its rich detail. Some philosophers and physicists have begun to wonder if we’re already…

Photo William C. Dudley, president of the New York Fed, says, “I don’t think anyone should question our motives.” Credit Richard Drew/Associated Press From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents — courtesy of a source inside the United States…

Dramatic stone masks, iconic finds in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan, were supposed to be made from a jadelike stone. Many researchers also thought the large faces were made on the site of the pre-Columbian metropolis. Instead, they seem to have been made in workshops a great distance to…