San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States today, arguing on behalf of 77 computer scientists that the justices should review a disastrous appellate court decision finding that application programming interfaces (APIs) are…

Failures from the he's-so-effective-that-they'd-like-him-to-stop dept Mother Jones has an interesting profile of Ryan Shapiro, a punk rocker turned animal rights activist turned MIT PhD student, who is officially the "most prolific" filer of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the FBI .…

Tristan Walker is in the house. He is posted up in the vestibule of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California, where the hottest venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz, has just hosted a screening of a new documentary starring the rapper Nas. Nas is here, too, but from the way…

EDIT: KeepSafe in San Francisco and Improbable in London are now both hiring engineers without relying on resumes! About a year ago, after looking at the resumes of engineers we had interviewed at TrialPay in 2012, I learned that the strongest signal for whether someone would get an offer was the…

Economic View Economic debate since the financial crisis and Great Recession has often focused on issues like monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, unemployment and financial regulation. Yes, these are all important, but in the future we will need to pay much more attention to a relatively neglected…

The Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from potentially dangerous solar radiation, is gradually losing its stability. No need to move underground or build space colonies just yet, though: the changes are taking place over millions of years. You might assume that compasses will always point…

AMONG the most controversial of Thomas Piketty’s arguments in his bestselling analysis of inequality, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, is that wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the very rich. Rising wealth inequality could presage the return of an 18th century inheritance…

– A blog post written by Daniel Ek ( @eldsjal ) Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it. We started Spotify because we love music and piracy was killing it. So all the talk swirling around lately about how Spotify is making money on…

You don't have to be convicted of a crime — or even accused of one — for police to seize your car or other property. It's legal. Several videos online are shedding some light on the controversial practice. The practice is called civil asset forfeiture, and every year it brings cities millions of…

Loading... Managing yourself COMMENT 8.95 BUY COPIES Loading... Executive Summary A Gallup estimate shows that almost half the people you’ll see today have some level of sleep deprivation. Morning fatigue is sometimes dismissed as a mere inconvenience, but missing sleep worsens mood, weakens memory,…

The hidden web community has started trying to find out how services and identities were compromised after police raids led to 17 arrests. Last week, several high-profile sites on the so-called "hidden", "dark" or "deep" web were seized. Experts are looking at techniques the authorities may have…

November 11, 2014 Posted in News by The Skype Team | 0 Shares Introducing Skype for Business Yesterday we kicked off a global conversation about how Microsoft is reinventing productivity—across the board—to create a world where people can truly make the most of their time and lead more fulfilling…

With customers in more than 140 countries, you really start wondering: “How different is sales work around the world?” We started looking into it and went on a quest to find the best sales nation in the world. What we discovered was that we can’t trust stereotypes. For example, Americans simply…

May 24, 2018 SocialRank has been undergoing a number of changes following Instagram’s legacy API shutdown last month . One of the changes we are implementing today is the removal of the Twitter online authentication (known as OAuth) and putting in place Email Login. Read more… 2 responses Alexander…

tech2 News Staff Nov 11, 2014 16:09:44 IST Microsoft has announced its plans to bring Internet connectivity across the country completely free of cost. As revealed to Hindustan Times , Microsoft has proposed to make use of the “white space” or the unused spectrum between two TV channels, to make…

Max Nalsky is the founder and CEO of Pyrus , the workplace collaboration and productivity platform. We operate in a world of inboxes. Everyone has his or her collection of points where other people can touch them — email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype – the list goes on. It’s easily overwhelming, and we…

Oil painting by George Sidebottom, a patient at the Retreat in York (1890–1900) (courtesy Retreat Archives, all images via Wellcome Library) A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new initiative to digitize more than 800,000 pages of material from British psychiatric hospitals. Dating…

The Map Makers A double exposure of weakly electric fish with recordings of brain activity. Credit Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times Research on the brain is surging. The United States and the European Union have launched new programs to better understand the brain. Scientists are mapping parts…

A view of the dance floor at the Riot Boutique club night in Bloomington, Indiana, while DJ Angst spins Johan Bollen DJ Angst kicked off the late-February show at the Root Cellar Lounge in Bloomington, Indiana, keeping in mind that, as the first DJ to play, it was his job to figure out what would…

Shingy Illustration by Tom Bachtell Shingy believes in storytelling—more story, less telling. A story can be anything—text or image, six seconds or thirteen hours. According to Shingy, we are no longer living in the age of information; it’s the age of social, and social is all about conversations.…

You often hear about phones getting stolen, but I never thought it would happen to me. Earlier this year, my 5S was stolen because I placed it on a bench while I was skating. Stupid me, I know. This time, though, in my second phone theft, my iPhone 6 Plus got taken right out of my back pocket.…

Essay Credit Illustration by Javier Jaén The note is just a single sheet gone yellow with age, typewritten and tightly spaced. It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them. Clearly, some effort went into perfecting the tone, that of a disappointed admirer,…

The Maltego tool allowed a security consultant to ‘stalk’ a Twitter user who appeared to work at the CIA, which is based in Langley, Virginia.Photograph: Dennis Brack/Pool/EPA/Corbis “O ur choice isn’t between a world where either the good guys spy or the bad guys spy. It’s a choice of everybody…

HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden at Harvard Law School on Oct. 20.

Talk of a two-state solution has been swallowed by despair, rage, or triumphalism. Illustration by Alex Williamson / Reference: Lior Mizrahi / Getty Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin, the new President of Israel, is ardently opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state. He is instead a proponent of…

Demonstrators hold flags of Kurdistan and a flag with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan outside the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters I n 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic. A would-be…

The Gist Paul Helliker had a job for Dow AgroSciences. As director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Helliker had allowed some growers to ignore the restrictions for a pesticide called 1,3-Dichloropropene, which the state believed caused cancer. The loophole was supposed to be…

After being on the run for two years Peter Sunde, aka brokep, was arrested during a family visit in southern Sweden late May. Despite being accused of non-violent crimes, Peter was transferred to a high-security unit. His time in prison was tough. There was no concern for his vegan diet and he was…

In July 2014, FireEye mobile security researchers have discovered that an iOS app installed using enterprise/ad-hoc provisioning could replace another genuine app installed through the App Store, as long as both apps used the same bundle identifier . This in-house app may display an arbitrary title…

Work, friendships, exercise, parenting, eating, reading — there just aren’t enough hours in the day. To live fully, many of us carve those extra hours out of our sleep time. Then we pay for it the next day. A thirst for life leads many to pine for a drastic reduction, if not elimination, of the…

Op-Ed Contributor The Dark Market for Personal Data Credit Sam Potts BALTIMORE — THE reputation business is exploding. Having eroded privacy for decades, shady, poorly regulated data miners, brokers and resellers have now taken creepy classification to a whole new level. They have created lists of…

How They Did It and Why We Should Thank Them Alex Marshi Nov 8, 2014 It Has Happened to You An article with a gripping headline reaches the top of a typical site’s “Most Popular” section. You click through, assuming its title and popularity are equivalent to its quality. You instantly realize the…

T he history of human exploration has always been tied to the search for a destination. Space travel is no different: The Apollo program, which ferried humans to the moon, was not only a scientific and technical achievement, but also an exercise in planting flags and leaving bootprints. Yet…

TrueCar CEO Scott Painter. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, Thinkstock. This article originally appeared in Inc . A few years ago, Scott Painter had it made. He was wealthy, handsome, and smart, a TED and Davos guy who hung out with Elon Musk and Richard Branson.…

Biometrics seems like such a cool way to control access, so when Apple offered fingerprint ID in place of a PIN to access its iPhone, what hipster could resist? Of course, David Baust in Virginia Beach may well wish he had gotten a droid instead . A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal…