When shopping online, you tend to run into the lie pretty quickly. Spend a certain amount—perhaps $15 or $20—and your shipment is free. Take advantage of competitive holiday promotions that promise free shipping on any item, no minimum required. Or subscribe to a service like Amazon Prime, which,…

A few years ago, retired Maj. Wes Carter was picking his way through a stack of internal Air Force memos, searching for clues that might help explain his recent heart attack and prostate cancer diagnosis. His eyes caught on several recommendations spelled out in all capital letters: “NO ADDITIONAL…

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Workers inspect an area around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries' storage facility in Charleston, W.Va., in January 2014. Steve Helber/AP A federal judge has tentatively signed off on a $151 million settlement between residents of Charleston, W.Va., and…

Jailed protesters say they were temporarily kept in cages that felt like ‘dog kennels’, but officials say the allegations of poor treatment are untrue.Photograph: Morton County correctional center A United Nations group is investigating allegations of human rights abuses by North Dakota law…

What if you could remember every poem in the next life? From the cover of The Tongue of Adam , available now from New Directions The dead play a sly trick on the living: in dying, they pass on the duty of interpreting what they thought, of arguing over what they said—or might have said, or even what…

Image: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo Yesterday, Apple finally revealed a new MacBook Pro, a full 527 days after the last refresh. The Touch Bar was fancy and bright; the gorgeous display wowed eye sockets; and the price made my wallet pucker. But there was also a conundrum. It took Apple a year and a half to…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann In 1960, the Department of Justice indicted executives from several companies for involvement in a huge price-fixing scheme across much of the electrical industry. The story was like a bad spy novel—secret hotel-room meetings, conversations in code—and its chief…

Nature | News Sharing Many biologists are founding their own firms as venture capitalists show increased interest in science. Erika Check Hayden Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Lori Eanes Ethan Perlstein founded a biotechnology company rather than pursuing a conventional academic path after…

During downtime, some of us daydream while others might focus on a to-do list, or get stuck in a negative loop. Psychology has traditionally defined all these thought patterns as variations of “mind-wandering.” A review of brain imaging studies challenges the idea that a wandering mind is an unhappy…

After learning that a satellite that’s been silent for decades has suddenly started sending out new signals you may, of course, suspect that the device has been hijacked by aliens now trying to communicate with Earth. Perhaps they’re warning us that they are planning an invasion! It’s possible such…

The hackers believed responsible for breaking into computers at the Democratic National Committee have exploited previously undisclosed flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system and Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash software, Microsoft said Tuesday. It is unclear if those hackers, reportedly tied…

HALLWAY TO HELL The corridor leading to the exorcism room (second door on right) at the Paulist Fathers residence in Rome. Photograph by William Friedkin. We have a clergy today who no longer believe in the devil, in exorcism, in the exceptional Evil the devil can instill or even in thepower that…

A massive social media protest is exploding on Facebook, not Twitter for a change, yet Facebook’s dehumanized Trending system wasn’t picking it up. People around the country are checking in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in an effort to supposedly hinder local Morton…

The owner of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline said it may resume service on its gasoline line at noon local time Saturday after an explosion and fire in Alabama sent futures surging and traders scrambling to supply East Coast states with fuel. Colonial Pipeline Co., which carries gasoline and other…

Google and Microsoft are butting heads over the disclosure of vulnerabilities. On Monday, Google revealed a critical flaw in Windows after it gave Microsoft a ten-day window to warn the public about it. Google posted about the zero-day vulnerability on its security blog, saying Microsoft had yet to…

A door is painted with a message on a street in a neighborhood with a high rate of illegal drug use on 14 October 2016 in New York City.Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images A former top Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official has accused Congress of putting pharmaceutical company profits…

The Benjamin Franklin Method

Last week, a massive chain of hacked computers simultaneously dropped what they were doing and blasted terabytes of junk data to a set of key servers, temporarily shutting down access to popular sites in the eastern U.S. and beyond. Unlike previous attacks, many of these compromised computers…

Just last month, researchers explained how an attacker can knock the 911 service offline in an entire state by launching automated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of just 6000 smartphones. But, doing so, in reality, could not only land public in danger but the attacker as…

Story highlights UNICEF says indoor and outdoor air pollution are a major threat to children's health Air pollution report will be discussed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco (CNN) UNICEF is calling on world leaders to reduce air pollution, saying it leads to the deaths of…

I've been an Apple fanboy since I bought my first Macintosh IIsi — complete with color CRT monitor! — secondhand from a friend at college in 1993. There followed my first color Powerbook in 1996, my cool purple plastic iMac in 1998, my 2003 Powerbook G4 (the first aluminum one, which Steve Jobs…

A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed Digital San Francisco John Metcalfe Oct 26, 2016 This might be the most realistic video-game version of the city in existence. It’s so realistic you can almost taste the saline sea air, but every building, park, and boulevard in this “San…

About 71 percent of the Earth is covered by water, so measuring sea level changes around the world is no small feat. Up until now, scientists believed they knew how much global sea level had risen during the 20th century. This number has hovered around 0.6 inches per decade since 1900, according to…

“What the heck is happening at Apple?” people ask me. “Has the company lost its mojo? Why no new product categories? Why didn’t Apple, instead of AT&T, buy Time Warner? And why are the new MacBook Pros so darned expensive? After first getting out of the way the fact that Apple is still the richest…

The rancher-militia occupation last January at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, and the ongoing Native American occupation of the site of a proposed oil pipeline near Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas make for interesting comparisons. On Thursday, for example, the…

Want to watch Game of Thrones on your AT&T smartphone? You could be in luck if the proposed merger goes through.Photograph: HBO/2016 Home Box Office, Inc. All The dealmakers behind the proposed mega-merger of AT&T and Time Warner have accomplished the impossible: uniting Hillary Clinton, Donald…

By UPDATE #2: On October 18, 2016, nearly one year after Peyton's arrest, the St. Clair County Circuit Court ordered him to be released from jail and into his father's custody. UPDATE #1: On September 8, 2016, the St. Clair County Circuit Court found Peyton not guilty by reason of mental defect. The…

Carl Court / Getty Images On 29 November 2010, then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton stepped out in front of reporters to condemn the release of classified documents by WikiLeaks and five major news organisations the previous day. WikiLeaks' release, she said, “puts people’s lives in danger”,…

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Parents struggle with the costs and choices with child care. Chelsea Beck/NPR You can sleep when you're dead. That's how you feel when you're a parent anyway, you're tired all the time anyway, you may as well make some money. Mike Buchmann, Ohio father of three We don't have enough in the budget to…

I n May 2001 a middle-aged woman named Sharon visited her oncologist for what she thought could be her final appointment. Two months earlier, Sharon had been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, and her condition was already well beyond dire. Her liver was riddled with metastases, a massive tumor was…

Log in with Twitter news tech & science social media business entertainment life sports Listen | Print By Oct 24, 2016 in Technology Scientists have built an AI capable of predicting the outcome of human rights trials with an accuracy of 79 percent. The development marks a milestone in AI…

Border Patrol Agents Omar Puente, Marlene Castro and Guillermo Mata on patrol on the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Peter Breslow/NPR Border Patrol Agent-in-Charge Henry Leo on the Rio Grande. Peter Breslow/NPR An immigrant from El Salvador and her 1-year-old daughter apprehended after crossing the…

After a night of chaotic clashes with police on the front lines in a months-long protest, Native American activists complained about the force wielded to drive protesters from the path of a pipeline they contend will desecrate tribal lands and put their lone source of drinking water at risk.…

Defendant Shawna Cox speaks at left as supporters hug outside federal court in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday.Photograph: Don Ryan/AP Conventional wisdom has it that defendants never catch a break in US federal court: the conviction rate last year was more than 95% . But it seems those odds improve…

Boats sit on the beach at Bahia Almirantazgo in Antarctica. An agreement was reached on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent. Natacha Pisarenko/AP After years of negotiations, nations have reached an agreement to establish the world's…

Dan Nanamkin during the treaty camp’s confrontation with militarized police force on Thursday afternoon. Photo by Adam Alexander Johansson. This piece is very personal because, as an Indigenous woman, my analysis is very personal, as is the analysis that my friends on the frontlines have shared with…

It turns out pot is a stronger economic driver than 90 percent of the industries active in Colorado.