Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they talk to and what they write in text messages. Credit Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press 阅读简体中文版 WASHINGTON — For about $50, you can get a smartphone with a high-definition…

Claire Macnamara In response to a lawsuit accusing the US Navy of pirating more than 558,000 copies of virtual reality software, the Navy conceded Monday that it had installed the software on "hundreds of thousands of computers within its network" without paying the German software maker for it. But…

Two-thirds of the world's internet users live under regimes of government censorship, according to a report released today. The report from Freedom House , a pro-democracy think tank, finds that internet freedom across the globe declined for a sixth consecutive year in 2016, as governments cracked…

Every year, countless reports on how to make prisons more rehabilitative are published by think tanks, scholars, and advocates. Some of them rely on interviews with prisoners, while others focus on data and documents. But a new report on how Texas prisons can improve is unique: it was written solely…

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance Credit 13Milliseconds for The New York Times WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives. Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of…

Next month, I turn 30. There’s a good chance I’ll spend my birthday at home with my husband and dog, eating Betty Crocker chocolate cupcakes I made myself. To plenty of people, that sounds like a perfect way to celebrate — a night in with family I love. Instead, I worry that it’s a glimpse into a…

When historians look back at the presidential election of 2016 they will certainly have many questions, but perhaps the biggest one isn’t getting enough attention today. “What the (insert the popular profanity of the future)?” they will likely ask. “Why was there hardly any mention of climate…

News article by Media Team 14 Oct 2016 Genome Research Limited The first project of its kind, and as ambitious in scope as the Human Genome Project - which catalogued the first full human DNA sequence - the Human Cell Atlas aims to chart the types and properties of all human cells, across all…

Publishers aren’t about to abandon social platforms anytime soon — the potential reach is just too big and alluring — but the relationship isn’t exactly as warm as it used to be. “No one’s making money on Facebook. No one,” said an executive at a media company that’s getting paid by Facebook to…

What's that song? On your cellphone, the popular app Shazam is able to answer that question by listening for just a few seconds, as if it were magic. On Apple's computers, Shazam never turns the microphone off, even if you tell it to. When a user of Shazam's Mac app turns the app "OFF," the app…

When two cyclists were tragically killed in hit-and-run collisions this past summer, a group of anonymous urban activists known as the San Francisco Transformation Agency erected a set of protected bike lanes using traffic cones. Usually such guerrilla interventions are temporary. They raise…

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Now 82, Cohen has a new album, You Want It Darker, with songs that wrestle with mortality, question God and long for transcendence. Originally broadcast May 22, 2006. Hear The Original Interview TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Leonard Cohen has a new album called "You Want It…

India is in the middle of an extraordinary economic experiment. On 8 November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave only four hours' notice that virtually all the cash in the world's seventh-largest economy would be effectively worthless. The Indian government likes to use the technical term…

Cybercriminals are learning how to use newer authentication methods to exploit security weaknesses. As always, it is a cat-and-mouse game with serious consequences. Facial recognition software can be exploited with high-definition photos, many of which can be found on social media accounts.…

Modern Wi-Fi doesn't just give you fast browsing, it also imprints some of your finger movements – swipes, passwords and PINs – onto the radio signal. A group of researchers from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and the University of South Florida have…

Problems emerge when users switch to a new phone. Fingerprint scanning is an easy and fast way to unlock mobile phones and authenticate identity to supported applications. Many banks have already added support for this capability and are allowing their customers to log in to mobile banking apps by…

Bonnie Natko Researchers said they have discovered a simple way lone attackers with limited resources can knock large servers offline when they're protected by certain firewalls made by Cisco Systems and other manufacturers. The denial-of-service technique requires volumes of as little as 15…

Usually when you spot an article that involves China, an American company, and hacking, it's bad news. That's not the case this time. Google actually welcomes this kind of hacking. In fact, they offer big cash rewards to the men and women who do it. Image: Google At a security conference in Seoul…

High-Tech and Flexible Ever wanted to develop your own artificially-intelligent programs? Microsoft is empowering everyone with the capability to create huge, intelligent data-processing systems with the release of the Cognitive Toolkit. The Cognitive Toolkit—previously known as CNTK—is a superfast…

Article body copy Just before 10:10 on a warm summer night in 1917, German soldiers loaded a new type of armament into their artillery and began bombarding enemy lines near Ypres in Belgium. The shells, each emblazoned with a bright yellow cross, made a strange sound as their contents partly…

A brain implant lets a paralysed woman communicate wirelessly John Lund/Blend Images/Alamy By Jessica Hamzelou A paralysed woman has learned to use a brain implant to communicate by thought alone. It is the first time a brain–computer interface has been used at home in a person’s day-to-day life,…

“My time of day is the dark time, a couple of deals before dawn / When the street belongs to the cop, and the janitor with the mop / And the grocery clerks are all gone,” the suave gambler and night owl Sky Masterson sings in “Guys and Dolls.” The grocery clerks may be in bed, but the janitor and…

Nick Giese heads out to fish on Southern California’s Lake Cachuma. With the reservoir more than 90 percent below capacity, the surrounding region soon will face a water crisis. (Darryl Fears/The Washington Post) LAKE CACHUMA, Calif. — At the marina Monty Keller manages amid sloping mountains here,…

‘What started in 2008 as a United States financial crisis had morphed into a 2014 personal financial crisis.’Photograph: Alamy Debt : $120,000+ Source : Student loans Estimated Years Until Debt-free : Unknown I graduated from grad school in 2008, the year of the global financial crisis. Known for…

President-elect Donald Trump made a pair of key staff decisions — the first two of the transition — on Sunday night. Reince Preibus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who helped mainstream Trump in the party, was named Chief of Staff. This position is traditionally viewed as a top…

UPDATED November 13, 2016 On November 13, President-Elect Donald Trump named Bannon his White House Chief Strategist. He will serve alongside White House Chief of Staff and former RNC Chairman Reince Preibus as co-equals, reportedly. ORIGINAL: On Wednesday, the Trump campaign shifted top campaign…

A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives — more hated, even, than Democrats or loopy…

(iStock illustration) Free parking makes it cheaper to own a car. But, as UCLA economist Donald Shoup has long argued , it makes everything else more expensive. Parking at the supermarket is embedded in the cost of groceries. Parking attached to an apartment building is built into the price of rent.…

Photo © by Chris Porsz/Geoff Robinson Paramedic Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Great Britain) in the late 1970s and 80s, taking candid shots of punks and policemen, siblings and sweethearts, traders and teenagers. More than three decades later, Chris…

One man is trying to create a utopia on what he says is unclaimed land between Serbia and Croatia. He's banned from setting foot in his would-be territory, but he has not given up. The president stared across the water at his country, from which he is exiled. We were in a boat on the Danube, only a…

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The situation often dictates how to approach a new job. Did the company just have a humiliating experience with a data breach ? Did they not have a CSO previously and that is why they are looking for security help to lock down their network? If during the job interview, there was a blunt plea for…

Bill Gurley: “Being ‘right’ doesn’t lead to superior performance if the consensus forecast is also right.” Andy Rachleff elaborates on the point made by Gurley: “What most people don’t realize is if you’re right and consensus you don’t make money.” It is a bit strange that most people don’t realize…

The Breakdown How politics and government really work, and why they don’t. In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional…

A food line: People can wait for hours—or all day—and still go home with nothing. The economy is in ruins. Full-scale food riots sometimes break out. “Rice, pasta, sugar, cooking oil, bread, coffee. We produce these things. Or used to. Now they all require lines.” Photograph by Oscar B. Castillo The…

Micah Lee presents "Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked" Micah Lee , a long-time Qubes advocate, presented Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked at the Circle of HOPE conference, which took place July 20-22, 2018 in New York…