Boldizsár Bencsáth took a bite from his sandwich and stared at his computer screen. The software he was trying to install on his machine was taking forever to load, and he still had a dozen things to do before the Fall 2011 semester began at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where…

I then checked the actual thread and read through a lot of skepticism and negative feedback, both regarding my risk/money management (totally deserved regarding this particular trade, although misunderstood) and my use of technical analysis. Needless to say, a lot of people, based off one story that…

Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and scores of other crucial uses, officials said. The intrusion occurred in late September but officials gave no indication that they had a…

Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old Researchers might be able to predict how easily you can learn a new language by observing your brain network. Image: Ping Li Lab/Penn State Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old By Victoria M. Indivero November…

Not far off the coast of Ireland’s County Dublin, there’s a private island with some unlikely inhabitants. Along with the native bird colonies and a herd of cattle, the island, called Lambay , is home to Ireland’s only wild mob of wallabies . Related Content Mother Wallabies Are Delaying Births Due…

Tech & Science Environmentalism Environment Animal Rights On a May morning in 2008, a team of biologists doing some fieldwork in Borneo sat down to eat their lunch, only to notice a visitor in their midst. An odd lizard, partially concealed in some leaf litter, blinked back at them from a shallow…

Brady/Flickr Have you heard about the internet rewiring our brains and eating our memories? In her new book Mind Change , publicity expert Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield claims this is what’s happening. She describes the “Google Effect” where the internet becomes like an external memory bank.…

It is just possible that the most important guinea worm in history has already found its home. Its host does not know it yet, but inside his or her body this long white parasite is reproducing and growing. Through the next few months, as millions of her ancestors have done before, she will feed and…

Credit Liz Grauman/The New York Times For nearly a decade, YouTube has offered a smorgasbord of free music, making just about every song imaginable — from Top 40 to ukulele covers — available at a click. But soon the site, whose more than one billion monthly visitors make it the world’s most popular…

"As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom. But we still haven’t unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears." —President Obama, April 2, 2013 T he human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons and trillions,…

The Rosetta spacecraft’s Philae lander has touched down on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Related Article 1/8 MILE NOV. 12 Philae falls toward its intended landing site, less than two miles away. 6 FEET NOV. 12 The Philae lander descends toward the comet with landing gear extended.…

Modern history arose when the novel did, but novelists had their truths to claim. Credit BARRY BLITT What makes a book a history? In the eighteenth century, novelists called their books “histories,” smack on the title page. No one was more brash about this than Henry Fielding, who, in his 1749…

Mike Jay recounts the tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars who was confined to London’s notorious Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the “Air Loom” – a terrifying machine whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases…

By Daniel Roesler PV Solar Report Contributor Sam Altman recently wrote a post detailing his worries about another economic downturn. He concludes, “Personally, I think that innovation and new technology is what will save us.” He leaves unanswered what he thinks that next-generation technology will…

Mathematicians have been studying the number pi for thousands of years, so it might seem startling to learn that a gentleman in Athens, Wisconsin suddenly changed its value. His revised pi is a bit bigger than the one everyone else uses. And it stops after 12 digits instead of running on forever. To…

I never thought I’d say this, but Lyft got me. They’ve officially converted me to a brand loyalist. As crazy as it may seem, somehow I prefer to ride in a vehicle that has a pink mustache over Uber or Sidecar. The best part about it is that I don’t even think Lyft meant to do it. It’s not because…

Katt Nov 12, 2014 Except from”In Absentia Reports” by Georgi Markov , written between 1975 and 1978. The news that Stalin is sick caused genuine excitement in all areas of our factory society (the author was working as a engineer in a factory) . We were surprised: After years of being exposed to…

Tales of Terror by Matthew Lewis, published 1808, on display in Terror and Wonder © Photography © British Library Board It’s curious that a celebration of “the Gothic imagination” should take place in the modernist-orientalist terracotta fortress of the British Library. After all, just next door…

The Innovations Issue The retail racks of Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale, Calif. Credit Michael Vahrenwald for The New York Times When you pull off Highway 101 and head into Sunnyvale, Calif., the first thing you notice is how boring innovation looks up close. This small Silicon Valley city, which abuts…

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Building a product that relies on user-generated content can start with you and your best friend posting everything, but that plan isn’t going to get you far. Since you can’t force anyone to create content, here are some lessons from Pinterest, Quora, and Hacker News since they’ve figured out how to…

F or more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting began three years before Asphaug was born. On Oct. 7, 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft looped behind the moon, snapping off a series of grainy but distinct…

A few years ago, a large event in Saskatoon usually meant more business for the Chaplin Country Bed and Breakfast in Saskatchewan, Canada. “I’m about 10 minutes out of the city, so when the city hotels and bed and breakfasts fill up, I would often get their overflow,” said owner Kathy Chaplin. But…

A Survey Says Credit Ellen Porteus Americans say they are deeply concerned about privacy on the web and their cellphones. They say they do not trust Internet companies or the government to protect it. Yet they keep using the services and handing over their personal information. That paradox is…

Survival for busy people Hampus Jakobsson Nov 12, 2014 Do you wake up feeling exhausted? Are you starting to feel old and getting a lot of cramps and small issues? Are you a busy person? Well, so am I and we have to figure out a way to cope with it. I have been asked a lot of times by people how to…

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Now I was staring at around -($130,000) . That was 13 times my maximum loss limit. Oh My God. What have I done? I can't believe this is happening. I can't believe nobody has approached me yet. I can't believe they're still allowing me to keep going. I can't believe I didn't hit out when the 4.50 bid…

Minutes after President Obama unveiled his plan for net neutrality yesterday, Republicans leaders like Ted Cruz came out swinging . You can chalk up the backlash to more than just partisan spite; Cruz has taken his share of campaign money from telecom giants. And he's far from the exception.…

Mike Nudelman/Business Insider Tesla Motors probably shouldn't exist. The last successful American car startup was founded 111 years ago. It's called Ford. Barely a decade old, Tesla is already gigantic and adored. Its market capitalization hovers around $28 billion . Morgan Stanley calls it "the…

The search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the illusive creator of Bitcoin, may well be over Adrian Chen Few mysteries in recent years have been as frustrating or as compelling as the question surrounding the true identity of Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Now, following five months of research into the…

Eureka Credit Illustration by Paul Sahre On a still-sweltering evening in Tanzania more than a decade ago, my colleagues and I crouched around a fresh pile of elephant dung to witness an epic struggle of wills. Immediately upon our arrival, beetles began plonking into the grass around us. Soon…

(Photo: gamikun/Flickr) Andrew Kirmse sold his first computer program before he graduated from high school and went on to develop Meridian 59, the first massive 3-D multi-player online game, with his brother after finishing college and moving back into his parents' basement. After a stint at…

Surprise! Not one of these things contains a single speck of blue pigment. Evan Leeson/Bob Peterson/lowjumpingfrog/Look Into My Eyes/Flickr Until about 600 million years ago, seeing colors didn't matter so much to Earth's inhabitants — nobody had eyes. "Before the eye evolved, you just wouldn't have…

Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer's web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie . Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to light from other providers: email encryption downgrade attacks. In recent months, researchers have reported ISPs in the US and…