(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s ( GOOGL.O ) Google has reached an agreement with CBS Corp ( CBS.N ) to carry the network on its planned web TV service and is in advanced talks with 21st Century Fox ( FOXA.O ), Walt Disney Co ( DIS.N ) and Viacom Inc ( VIAB.O ) to distribute their channels, people with…

In what's believed to be an unprecedented attempt to bypass the security of Apple iPhones, or any smartphone that uses fingerprints to unlock, California's top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices. FORBES found a…

Yahoo is asking the US government for more transparency around an alleged national security order. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Yahoo is in the midst of a major controversy over alleged email surveillance, and now it's looking to set the record straight. The internet giant on Wednesday sent a…

In the wake of reports this week that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered Yahoo to scan all of its users’ email in 2015, there are many unanswered legal and technical questions about the mass surveillance. But before we can even begin to answer them, there is a more…

UPDATE (1/26/17): In response to news about WhatsApp's key management choices, we have added additional information about related trade-offs under "Key change notifications." After careful consideration, we have decided to add additional warnings and caveats about using WhatsApp to our Surveillance…

New Reports Show How Vague Laws Can Pave the Way for Human Rights Violations We're proud to announce today's release of “ Unblinking Eyes: The State of Communications Surveillance in Latin America ,” a project that documents and analyzes surveillance laws and practices in twelve Latin American…

Once-a-day HIV pills that combine multiple medicines, such as Truvada, are easier to take, but they can be more expensive than pills that contain only one active ingredient. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from discriminating against people with serious…

Biology Depression could come down to stronger and weaker connections between various parts of the brain (Credit: University of Warwick ) Depression is a complicated condition affecting an estimated 350 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Association . While some depressive…

An internet romance scam took an unexpected turn, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. When Maria Grette first discovered that the 58-year-old Danish man with whom she had fallen in love was actually a 24-year-old Nigerian "419" internet scammer, the 62-year-old Swede was distraught. But, soon, her…

This post is part of a series in following the release of the Twine Prime, State of Mobile Performance Report, which is a comprehensive 33-page analysis of the current state of mobile performance in the US, Europe and India. Download the report today . LTE first launched in the US on Verizon’s…

Whether they like it or not, about half of all Americans are pictured in a digital “perpetual line-up,” composed of databases handled either by the FBI or local police departments, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center finds in a new study published Tuesday. According to “The…

Friedman-Abeles/New York Public Library for the Performing Arts A scene from the first production of Robert Lowell’s Benito Cereno, part of his trilogy, The Old Glory , directed by Jonathan Miller at the American Place Theater in 1964 and based on Herman Melville’s novella. Captain Amasa Delano…

I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design. I t’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding the screen closer to my face. I’ve worried that my eyesight is starting to go. These hurdles have…

The UK government says it wants to stop people under 18 from looking at pornography, and so it's going to make all the porn sites operating in Britain collect some kind of age-verification in order to make this happen, on pain of being blocked by the UK's Great Firewall. This amounts to a giant…

A worldwide team of senior scientists and clinicians have come together to produce an editorial which indicates that certain microbes – a specific virus and two specific types of bacteria – are major causes of Alzheimer’s Disease. Their paper, which has been published online in the highly regarded…

rability of electronic records to hacking, and the impact of deregulating campaign spending, compounding the lack of professional standards of electoral management. For a broader perspective, section 2 clarifies the core concept and measure of ‘electoral integrity’, the key yardstick used in this…

Nature | News Sharing Schiaparelli touchdown would be ESA's first success on the red planet. Elizabeth Gibney Article tools Rights & Permissions ESA/ Nature An ESA visualization of Schiaparelli landing on Mars Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet , the European…

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Using DNA analysis, researchers have discovered that an unexpected hybrid of cattle and bison once roamed the Earth. The 120,000-year-old species was a cross-breed of the aurochs, the ancestor of modern cattle, and the Ice Age steppe bison, ancestors of the modern American bison or buffalo. "Finding…

YouTube Pedals, New Jersey's beloved upright-walking black bear, appears to have been a casualty of this year's bear hunt. The wild animal had been captured on film ambulating in a distinctly human fashion — hence his name, short for "bipedal." Pedals had a visible disability in his front forepaws,…

This image of the Mars night side shows ultraviolet emission from nitric oxide (abbreviated NO). The emission is shown in false color with black as low values, green as medium, and white as high. These emissions track the recombination of atomic nitrogen and oxygen produced on the dayside, and…

Northwest tribes and their victory over fossil-fuel projects in their own territory encourage the Standing Rock Sioux and their supporters in the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. In a historic tribal gathering in North Dakota, members from more than 300 native nations have joined the…

Native Americans killed by police (L to R) from top: Marcus Lee, Lance McIntire, Daniel Covarrubias, Raymond Eacret, Jessie Lee Rose, Jacqueline Salyers, Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, Richard Estrada, Jeanetta Riley, Larry Kobuk, Jamie Lee Brave Heart, Loreal Tsingine, Corey Kanosh, Allen Locke, Sarah…

Don't let your anger persist

Getty Jack Shafer is Politico ’s senior media writer. What if almost the entire newspaper industry got it wrong? What if, in the mad dash two decades ago to repurpose and extend editorial content onto the Web, editors and publishers made a colossal business blunder that wasted hundreds of millions…

Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They’re also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days . A new study tries to measure precisely how much more Americans work than Europeans do overall. The answer: The…

Twitter’s market cap is down $3.5bn from its peak at the height of the buyout rumours.Photograph: Richard Drew/AP Twitter might have finally found some motivation to deal with its troll problem. Three and a half billion motivations, really. The company has spent the past few months courting…

The Few Things I Own (An Essay on Minimalism)

HBO’s latest offering (on SkyAtlantic here in the UK ) is an update of Michael Crichton ‘s 1973 film Westworld ; this time brought to us as a ten-part television series by sci-fi re-booter extraordinaire J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Jonathan Nolan (yes, brother and frequent collaborator of…

I t was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look. Seconds later, he was knocked to the pavement…

In North Carolina, massive flooding in the wake of Hurricane Matthew isolated or swamped these and other hog farms and their waste lagoons, raising fears of environmental contamination. (Arelis Hernández/The Washington Post) NEW BERN, N.C. – A filthy brown sea, a slurry of mud, debris, chemicals and…

BEIJING (AP) — Two Chinese astronauts began the country's longest crewed space mission yet on Monday, blasting off on a spacecraft for a 30-day stay on an experimental space station as China steadfastly navigates its way to becoming a space superpower. Ahead of the launch, one astronaut shouted: "We…

A full-size model of the ExoMars entry, descent and landing module Schiaparelli, with its parachute deployed, was on display in the Netherlands in April. The actual lander is en route to the surface of Mars and set to arrive on Wednesday. ESA An experimental lander from the European Space Agency is…

Y et another strange and shocking case has now emerged from the shadowy Court of Protection, the most secretive court in Britain. Only in the past three years – thanks to the valiant efforts of Lord Justice Munby, the head of our family courts, to expose their workings to what he calls “the glare of…