Amid near continuous harassment and frequent arrests by police, members of over 300 Native American tribes gathered on native land in North Dakota continue to block construction on the Dakota Access pipeline. “It’s a matter of minutes from when they’re called that they show up and you see constant…

Vets are still dying from burn-pit illnesses, advocates say

The cry for criminal charges to be slapped on the bigwigs at Wells Fargo continues to grow louder. Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and their colleagues urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a new letter to "thoroughly investigate the culpability of senior executives" at Wells Fargo ( WFC…

Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation A film by Barbara Kopple 92 minutes, documentary, color, English, 2015 Regular Price: $24.95 Your Price: $16.22 You Save: 35%! Synopsis Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation is a vivid look at one of America's…

Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of the Los Angeles tech boom. 1 THE ACCUSED August 29, 2015, is a hot night on Venice Beach. Normally the superheated inland desert sucks the damp air off the ocean, blanketing the coast with a layer of moisture all the way to the…

US drives rainforest destruction by importing Amazon oil, study finds

Do you get creeped out when an ad eerily related to your recent Internet activity seems to follow you around the web? Do you ever wonder why you sometimes see a green lock with “https” in your address bar, and other times just plain “http”? EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists can…

A New York Police Department officer wears a VieVu body camera on his chest during a news conference in New York. | AP Photo/Mark Lennihan A hard-fought bidding war to supply body cameras to the New York Police Department took an aggressive new turn last week, when one of the city's top lobbyists…

O n May 31, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin. As…

Daydream with me for a moment while I imagine my ideal classroom. The first thing that strikes you when you walk in is the arrangement of the room. Not serried ranks of desks lined up before a blackboard but comfortable seats placed in a large circle. This arrangement sends a message: here is a…

Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators

1981 Radio Shack computer catalog When Radio Shack was "the biggest name in little computers" by Chris Wild Once upon a time, Radio Shack was saved from bankruptcy — in the 1960s. The British Tandy corporation, at that time a leather goods retailer, bought the company in a resulting merger called…

Apple has been readying itself for the home button’s demise for a while. Between 2012 and 2014, the company acquired 26 patents from biometric security company Privaris, which specializes in integrating fingerprint readers into touch screens, CNN reported . So it wasn’t a huge surprise that on…

Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an "extraordinary cache" of cannabis found in an ancient burial in northwest China, saying that the unique find adds considerably to our understanding of how ancient Eurasian cultures used the plant for ritual and medicinal purposes. In a report in the…

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Drug Enforcement Administration has reduced the amount of opioids that can be manufactured in the US next year. Production of all opioids, which are a class of pain medication, will be cut by at least 25 percent in 2017 due to less demand and growing concern…

At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers’ personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far…

This “fantasy city” by Dmitry Zaviyalov combines the architecture of many of Rome’s Asian contemporaries. TheStrangeContinent.com Sep 25, 2016 This week, the BBC announced the discovery of two “ethnically Chinese” skeletons at an ancient Roman burial site in England. Who were they? What drove them…

If you ask most people around the world their true desires, their answers will be the same: health, happiness, and to ride around in a chariot pulled by thousands of bees. Thankfully, scientists have brought us closer to that last desire this week — they've successfully taught a group of the tiny…

An independent review into plans to introduce wide-ranging bulk surveillance powers for UK intelligence agencies and law enforcement should be filed under “fiction”, according to a former director of the US National Security Agency. The Bulk Powers Review , conducted by the independent reviewer of…

Boeing Co. once helped the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Now the company intends to go toe-to-toe with newcomers such as billionaire Elon Musk in the next era of space exploration and commerce. Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons-like future…

The last known member of a rare tree frog species has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Georgia. The Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog was known to staff at the Garden as “Toughie” and believed to be approximately 12 years old. His body was found in his enclosure last week during a routine daily…

Happy landings: the spaceplane should be able to take off and land up to 50 times Mr Pengxin Han et al. from CALT By Paul Marks Even China can’t resist the lure of space tourism. A state-backed firm is developing a gigantic spaceplane, New Scientist can reveal. The plane may one day fly up to 20…

Published: October 3rd, 2016 It may have seemed apparent to members of Congress a decade ago that if a motorist pumped a gallon of fuel made from corn into their gas tank, a gallon of fossil fuel would be left in the ground — hopefully on a foreign shore. But real life is not so simple. A team of…

AccuVote-TSX machines at the San Diego Registrar of Voters. Remember when everyone hated hanging chads and wanted computerized voting? Seemed like a good idea at the time. Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer…

By E.J. Spode. ‘ And here we are. We’ve had our laughs at the expense of Wolfe and Everett and the journalists that fawn over them, but if you think about it, it really isn’t funny. One of the greatest scientists of our lifetime has embarked upon a fascinating research program. The program is…

Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

Could the face that launched several Indian films also be the one painted on an iconic Swiss watch? (Nikhil Dhanrajgir) Sébastien Marcel is an unlikely judge of beauty queens, but his face recognition expertise could finally solve the identity of an Indian woman on a precious Swiss watch. Marcel…

When Oscar Grant was shot and killed in 2009, there was no data about the shooting of black men by Bay Area Rapid Transit police. All we knew was that BART had received 66 complaints, with excessive use of force being the primary allegation, according to a 2010 audit . In 2015, when a homeless man…

Three Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Brandon Ballinger Sep 19, 2016 Why is the world’s most advanced AI used for cat videos , but not to help us live longer and healthier lives? A brief history of AI in Medicine, and the factors that may help it succeed where it has failed…

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a…

An estimated 6,964 gigawatt hours were generated by solar over the half-year - 5.4% of the UK’s electricity demand.Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Electricity generated by solar panels on fields and homes outstripped Britain’s ageing coal power stations over the past six months in a…

The main problem with cars in the city is that they spend 95 percent of their time parked on a valuable piece of land. Carsharing changes that ratio, which gives cities the opportunity to reclaim the parking lot. Sometimes the future arrives humbly in our everyday life, until one day we realize its…

Nasa It is the astronomical mystery that keeps on deepening. The erratic dimming of KIC 8462852, an apparently "normal" star 1,480 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, has spawned theories ranging from clouds of comets to an exploding planet and even evidence of a vast alien megastructure…

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I doubt that any phenomenon, real or imagined, has inspired more perplexing, convoluted, and ultimately futile philosophical analysis than time travel has. (Some possible contenders, determinism and free will, are bound up anyway in the arguments over time travel.) In his classic textbook, An…

Lotfi al-Arabi El Gherissi, in a still from a video released by Human Rights Watch.Photograph: Human Rights Watch Two Tunisian men held in secret CIA prisons for more than a year have told a leading human rights organization they were tortured with gruesome and previously unknown techniques. The…

Lesser known tricks of spoofing extensions Posted: September 30, 2016 by Last updated: October 26, 2016 It is a well-known fact that malware using social engineering tricks is designed to hide itself from being an obvious executable. Malicious attachments are sent with specially crafted icons that…