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Organised criminal gangs are increasingly targeting high-end cars with keyless security systems, a UK motoring industry group has warned. The thieves are able to bypass security using equipment intended only for mechanics, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said. Manufacturers are…

(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential , with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor and minority voters from…

Sea levels are rising, the land is sinking. It's going to become a big problem for some cities on the US East Coast, so in Boston people are thinking the unthinkable - copying Venice and Amsterdam, and becoming a city of canals. Two years ago, when the still vicious tail-end of Hurricane Sandy…

WASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.…

Magicians, Mafiosos, a Missing Painting, and the Heist of a Lifetime Epic Magazine Oct 26, 2014 Venice was built to confuse. The floating Italian city has few straight lines: Each cobblestoned footpath veers and twists, the buildings lean, and small bridges vault sideways. For tourists, it’s like…

Sam Harris (Author, neuroscientist, Co-founder of Project Reason) and Cenk Uygur (Host of The Young Turks) have a discussion about religion. Sam and Cenk also address questions from the audience. https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg http://www.samharris.org/

Movie Review Edward J. Snowden in the documentary “Citizenfour.” Credit Radius-TWC Citizenfour NYT Critic's Pick Directed by Laura Poitras Documentary, Biography, History, News R 1h 54m More Information There are two ways to look at “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’s documentary about Edward J. Snowden,…

Credit Sam Manchester/The New York Times MENLO PARK, Calif. — Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy. Mr. Marra’s team designs the code that drives Facebook’s News Feed — the stream of…

Op-Ed Contributor Minority Life in Israel Credit Bratislav Milenkovic My mother, Zakia, was so proud that my sister and I spoke better Hebrew than Arabic. Osman, my father, believed that by achieving the highest levels of education, we would one day be treated as equal in our country, Israel. He…

Author Published on Oct 21, 2014 Share Mindshift iStock The rise of the standing desk may appear to be a response to the modern, eat-at-your-desk, hunched-over worker chained to her computer, but history paints a different picture: Hemingway, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson all stood while…

A student takes notes at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Do teachers really know what students go through? To find out, one teacher followed two students for two days and was amazed at what she found. Her report is in following post, which appeared on the…

Artificial intelligence should be regulated, says Elon Musk.Photograph: Blutgruppe/Blutgruppe/Corbis Elon Musk has spoken out against artificial intelligence (AI), declaring it the most serious threat to the survival of the human race. Musk made the comments to students from Massachusetts Institute…

A few months ago I made the trek to the sylvan campus of the IBM research labs in Yorktown Heights, New York, to catch an early glimpse of the fast-arriving, long-overdue future of artificial intelligence. This was the home of Watson, the electronic genius that conquered Jeopardy! in 2011. The…

S havarsh Karapetyan trained his eyes on the asphalt as he rounded the corner. He had 45 pounds of sand strapped to his back, facing the final push on a 13-mile run fueled by the fury he’d been nursing ever since Soviet coaches dropped him from the national swim team. Karapetyan, after all, had…

IN 1882 W.S. Gilbert wrote, to a tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan, a ditty that went “I often think it’s comical how Nature always does contrive/that every boy and every gal that’s born into the world alive/is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.” In the 19th century, that view, though…

A year ago, Google Glass seemed poised to alter the technology world in fundamental ways. The augmented-reality eyeglasses had a growing legion of early adopters—dubbed “Explorers” by Google—walking the streets of major cities; several large companies, including OpenTable and The New York Times ,…

Gray Matter The Problem With Positive Thinking Credit Olimpia Zagnoli Editor’s Note: We’re resurfacing this story from the archives to show you why positive thinking may be overrated. MANY people think that the key to success is to cultivate and doggedly maintain an optimistic outlook. This belief…

Here’s one reason libraries hang on to old science journals: A paper from an experiment conducted 32 years ago may shed light on the nature of dark matter , the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to keep the galaxies from flying apart. The old data put a crimp in the newfangled concept of a…

T he women that come to see Deane Aikins, a clinical psychologist at Wayne State University, in Detroit, are searching for a way to leave their traumas behind them. Veterans in their late 20s and 30s, they served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Technically, they’d been in non-combat positions, but that…

From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century. I can date the onset of my unease to the day I met Ray…

Alan Eustace, a senior vice president at Google, broke the world record for high-altitude jumps. Credit Atomic Entertainment and Paragon Space Development Corporation ROSWELL, N.M. — A well-known computer scientist parachuted from a balloon near the top of the stratosphere on Friday, falling faster…

Born around the year 490 CE in the city of Philadelphia , John the Lydian had a lot to say about Roman corruption and civil servants. His book, On the Magistracies of the Roman State, provides insight into the sausage factory that was late antique bureaucracy. Though living in Constantinople at the…

A new paper threatens to turn the world of autism neuroscience upside down. Its title is Anatomical Abnormalities in Autism? , and it claims that, well, there aren’t very many. Published in Cerebral Cortex by Israeli researchers Shlomi Haar and colleagues, the new research reports that there are…

Strategies Gloomy economic news and the wild swings of the stock market may be getting you down. But at least you can count on this: We’ve entered the sweet spot of the iPhone cycle. Since Sept. 19, when the iPhone 6 and its larger sibling, the iPhone 6 Plus, went on sale, consumers have been…

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 The survival stories of mountain climbers may be a clue to suspended animation. (Photo by Tim ) Hibernation is a state characterized by inactivity, slower metabolism and lower body temperature. Hibernating animals most often do so to survive food scarcity, especially during…

He coined the term cyberspace before we even knew cyberspace existed. He imagined reality TV years before it was everywhere. He's made the leap from cult novelist to mega-selling oracle by writing intensely enjoyable techno-thrillers about viral-ad agencies and shadowy clothing designers and…

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent…

Opinion The Dangers of Eating Late at Night Credit Ben Sanders ACID REFLUX is an epidemic affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans. In addition to heartburn and indigestion, reflux symptoms may include postnasal drip, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, chronic throat clearing, coughing and…

Creatures Such As We by Lynnea Glasser – an entry into this year’s Interactive Fiction competition T he annual Interactive Fiction Competition is an institution that has endured for almost 20 years, with the goal of discovering each year’s best and brightest works in the world of text-based gaming.…

By Dr. Jonathan Wai | Sep 30, 2014 Synopsis What do we know about the science of human intelligence? Douglas Detterman, emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University, shares what he has learned from decades of working in this field. If you want to learn about the research that goes on in any…

I had been advised not to go to the Red Cross Hospital in Sofia to speak with the one English prisoner there, because he was an “uninteresting case.” At the Hospital they finally unearthed the doctor who spoke German, and I told him I had come to talk with the wounded Englishman. “Certainly,” said…

The femur from which the DNA samples originated. Bence Viola, MPI EVA Svante Pääbo's lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany has mastered the process of obtaining DNA from ancient bones. With the techniques in hand, the research group has set about obtaining samples…

In October of 1949, a few months after publication of George Orwell 's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four , he received a letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley , a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published in the form of Brave New World , a book…

The homeless and others in need enjoy lunch at the Los Angeles Mission on Nov. 23, 2011, in celebration of Thanksgiving. Legislation to ban organizations from serving food to homeless people in public places has been proposed in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images If you don't have a…

As one of the maintainers of eCryptfs , and a long time Thinkpad owner, I have been asked many times to add support to eCryptfs for Thinkpad's fingerprint readers. I actually captured this as a wishlist bug in Launchpad in August 2008, but upon thinking about it a bit more, I later closed the bug…

Excavators dig rare earth on a field of Jiangxi Copper Corp's Sichuan branch on February 18, 2011 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) Everyone can stop worrying now. China's grip over the world's supply of rare-earth metals has weakened considerably — and the country…