Jerry Iannelli | November 29, 2016 | 3:40pm A A Few phrases in the lexicon of American politics are more brazenly undemocratic than "legalized monopoly." The phrase conjures images of failed nation states and robber-baron America in the 1890s. Government-backed corporations abuse vital resources…

At over 1,000-years-old, The Royal Mint – the only institution licensed to provide coins in the UK – isn’t the type of business you might expect to be launching a blockchain. However, in the face of new “technological and competitive” challenges, The Royal Mint is doing just that, announcing today…

On Sunday, an ebullient procession of artists, performers, and city residents filled Collins Avenue between Miami Beach’s 32nd and 36th streets to inaugurate the Faena Forum , a 43,000--square-foot, $150 million, performing- and visual-arts space that’s the cultural centerpiece of the Faena District…

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The heavenly musician kalavinka ; drawing by Katsushika Hokusai, 1823-1833 Like other Japanese exports—sushi or judo, haiku or Zen—the art form known as manga has evolved amid its long history of Pacific crossings. Today, we think of manga as graphic stories, the Japanese…

27.01.2017 What's new First and foremost, we can proudly announce that Resurrection was nominated for the Fan Creation of the Year for South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming Awards . Everyone can vote for the awards until February 10 on IGN . New reviews have appeared in the last few months as well.…

Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of corals ever recorded on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a study has found. Some 67% of corals died in the reef's worst-hit northern section, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies report said. The situation was better in…

Russia is developing an ultra-heavy rocket to transport supplies to the moon, where it plans to build a base, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday, according to state news agency Itar-Tass . Reports about the revival of Soviet plans for a Russian space-exploration base on the moon…

What kind of cyber security policies and legislation might take shape in a Trump administration? This exclusive interview with Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a top advisor to President Elect Trump gives some clues. In-brief: In this special Security Ledger podcast, I interview Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret),…

Google is warning prominent journalists and professors that nation-sponsored hackers have recently targeted their accounts, according to reports delivered in the past 24 hours over social media. The people reportedly receiving the warnings include Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times…

By on November 26, 2016 3:18 pm “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted.” That was part of the message displayed on computer screens at Muni stations across San Francisco on Saturday in what appears to be a computer hack targeting The City. Along with the message, fare payment machines at Muni underground…

Photo: Nickelodeon When Double Dare premiered in 1986, it became an instant kid-friendly sensation. Hosted by Marc Summers, the gak-soaked Nickelodeon game show aired in some form or another on the network until 1993. Although the show would return years later as Double Dare 2000 with host Jason…

The following story was first published in November 2016, and was republished on January 29, 2019, in light of the KFD outbreak in Karnataka. Rajagopalan climbed to the top of the tree and brought the carcass of the dead langur down. Placing it on the forest floor, he studied the body and found…

The beach is the centerpiece of the city’s promise of escape — escape from cold winters or college classes or family, where you can drink goblets of bright green liquor and cruise down Ocean Drive in a rented tangerine Lamborghini before retiring to the warm sand. To the casual observer, the beach…

Tonya Stands recovers from being pepper sprayed by police after swimming across a creek with other protesters hoping to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, near Cannon Ball, N.D., on November 2. John L. Mone/AP As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, N.D.,…

YouTube Editor's note: Updated Nov. 21 at 11:15 a.m. with a comment from Nissan. A video shows two cars crashing head-on at 35 miles per hour. (Don't worry, the drivers are crash test dummies.) One car is red, one is silver. The red car crumples like an accordion. The dummy's face collides with the…

Tests of mimicking actions suggest dogs have a form of episodic memory by Laura Sanders 12:00pm, November 23, 2016 SOMEBODY’S WATCHING ME After watching a person do a trick, such as touching an umbrella, dogs can perform the same one, even when they weren’t expecting to be called to action. The…

The watch list puts targets on the backs of liberal professors. IPGGutenbergUKLtd/Thinkstock This past Saturday, 200 white nationalists gathered two blocks away from President-elect Donald Trump’s future home, exulting in a victory that has catapulted them out of the shadows. This Monday, an…

The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.” The article by reporter Craig Timberg — headlined “Russian propaganda effort…

ATM hackers who long relied on tactics of stealing payment card numbers and online banking credentials to steal millions are now targeting the bank itself to steal cash directly from the machines. Earlier this year, a gang of cyber criminals infected several ATMs with malware in Taiwan and Thailand…

Kevin Laland looked out across the meeting room at a couple hundred people gathered for a conference on the future of evolutionary biology . A colleague sidled up next to him and asked how he thought things were going. “I think it’s going quite well,” Laland said. “It hasn’t gone to fisticuffs yet.”…

Martin Scorsese Credit Nadav Kander for The New York Times. Set design by Betil Dagdelen. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature In his new film, “Silence,” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy: the nature of…

A computer illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth. (Size may not be to scale.) Such an impact is believed to have led to the death of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Mark Garlick /Getty Images/Science Photo Library RM When the asteroid believed to have killed off the…

In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism.” Rand would later expand on this insight in various articles, most notably in two of her lectures at the Ford Hall Forum in…

Ever wonder how much money exists? This video compares the world's richest people, the biggest companies, physical currency, the gold market, the stock market, global debt, and other things to give you a sense of the size of how much money actually exists. Links: The Money Project has tons of…

The Conficker worm was huge news when it emerged towards the end of 2008, exploiting millions of Windows devices. Today, it remains one of the most pervasive malware families around the globe. Eight years ago, on November 21 st , 2008, Conficker reared its ugly head. And since then, the “worm that…

Home ► CISO Journal ► The Human Element of Incident Response – Part One August 30, 2016 By Vanessa Pegueros DocuSign Chief Information Security Officer There is an extraordinary amount of money and time spent on detection and response relative to cybersecurity, and much of this conversation is…

Malware spreading via Facebook has become a rare occurrence, but it does still occasionally crop up. The latest instance has been noticed by malware researcher Bart Blaze, and takes the form of image files ( .svg files, to be exact) that are being automatically sent from compromised user accounts:…

Five Russian banks have been under intermittent cyber-attack for two days, said the country's banking regulator. The state-owned Sberbank was one target of the prolonged attacks, it said. Hackers sought to overwhelm the websites of the banks by deluging them with data in what is known as a…

One and a half minutes is all it took after plugging in an internet-connected security camera for the camera be infected with malware. Unlike the average Jane or Joe Doe who would not want their security camera to be immediately infected with malware, Rob Graham, CEO of Errata Security, called it “…

If Congress doesn’t act soon, federal investigators will have access to new, sweeping hacking powers due to a rule change set to go into effect on Dec. 1. That’s why Sens. Chris Coons, Ron Wyden, Mike Lee, and others introduced a bipartisan bill today, the Review the Rule Act, which would push that…

Enlarge Argonne National Laboratory Japan is reportedly planning to build a 130-petaflops supercomputer costing $173 million (£131 million) that is due for completion next year. Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director-general at Japan's ‎National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where…

O n the evening of 19 November 1998, the body of a Colombian man, Julian Colon, was found in the boot of an abandoned car in Kansas City, Missouri. His hands, feet and eyes had been bound with duct tape, and he had been shot in the head. Cartel drug lords, who were importing cocaine, via Mexico,…

The Conversation Nov. 26, 2016 11:39AM EST By Chip Colwell This summer, Tim Mentz Sr. told the world via a YouTube video, which has now been removed by the user, about the destruction of his cultural heritage. A former tribal historic preservation officer of the Standing Rock Sioux, Mentz wore a…