Op-Ed Contributor Jimmy Carter: A First Step for Syria? Stop the Killing A convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly airstrike in Syria on Monday. The announcement this month of a new cease-fire agreement in Syria is good news. But a lack of trust among the Syrian belligerents and their foreign…

Jason Calacanis Flickr/Joi Ito Jason Calacanis wants to build the next media empire on the back of an old standby: email, specifically email newsletters. On Monday, Calacanis launched a site called Inside.com , which functions as a Kickstarter-style system for identifying topics ripe for their own…

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The Passion Fallacy (or, Why You Need More Than “Passion” to be Successful)

Credit: Sébastien Thibault It was a faustian bargain—and it certainly made editors at National Public Radio squirm. The deal was this: NPR, along with a select group of media outlets, would get a briefing about an upcoming announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a day before anyone…

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A flier found on lawns in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. (Courtesy Jaimi Hajzus) Jaimi Hajzus woke up Saturday morning to a string of worried texts. Friends in her hometown of Coudersport, Pa., said someone had gone house to house the previous night and left plastic bags filled with…

Trump calls for unconstitutional stop-and-frisk to be used across the country

Commentary: For $178 million, the U.S. could pay for one fighter plane – or 3,358 years of college

For years, the term 'asylum' has evoked images of chaos and cruelty – in spite of the mental health community's attempts to give it new meaning. Examining 700 years of history at the world's oldest psychiatric hospital, Bethlem, a new exhibition intends to set things straight. By Guy Kelly ,…

Getty Images When the United Nations General Assembly convenes a high-level meeting about a health issue, it’s clear there’s a crisis that requires our immediate attention. And this is one of those times. The assembly has only held a handful of such meetings in its history. It gathered in 2011 to…

movrcx Sep 13, 2016 Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale Credit: @Ox000000 Introduction: The combination of chaining the vulnerabilities described below allows a malicious exit node operator or global adversary to conduct a silent remote code execution attack on all platforms…

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When was the last time you went to a bank branch to make a payment? Digital finance has transformed rich countries, where many now take for granted paying our bills online, sending money to our friends and family from our phone, and not having to wait in line at the bank. In developing nations,…

How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Africa

It turns out that having Leon Cooperman for a grandpa is pretty much exactly like you'd expect: On July 28, 2010, at approximately 6:59 a.m. EDT, APL publicly announced for the first time that it was selling Elk City for $682 million. As a result, on that day, APL' s stock price increased…

Dangerous levels of the carcinogenic chemical chromium-6 can be found in the tap water drunk by 218 million Americans, a new report has revealed. The toxic chemical was brought into the spotlight by Erin Brockovich when she fought a power company accused of leaking the chemical into tap water…

TWO decades after Norway’s government paid a first deposit into its sovereign-wealth fund, the country is learning how to manage a behemoth. The vehicle, which is used to invest abroad the proceeds of Norway’s oil and gas sales, has amassed a bigger fortune than anyone expected, thanks to bumper oil…

Courtesy of Science Channel/European Space Agency /Discovery Communications The European Space Agency next week is scheduled to crash its Rosetta spacecraft into a comet, and Science Channel is planning a news special to cover the event and the findings of the mission. Rosetta was sent into space in…

This rendering shows a snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha blob. J.Geach/D.Narayanan/R.Crain/European Southern Observatory A mysterious glowing "blob" in outer space has puzzled astronomers for more than 15 years. Now, a team of researchers says it has uncovered the secret…

Physics Light particles normally do not “feel” each other because there is no interaction acting between them. Researchers at ETH have now succeeded in manipulating photons inside a semiconductor material in such a way as to make them repel each other nevertheless. Two light beams crossing each…

Nature | News Sharing Two-thousand-year-old bones could yield first DNA from an ancient shipwreck victim. Jo Marchant Antikythera, Greece Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Brett Seymour, EUA/WHOI/ARGO Divers examine human bones excavated from the Antikythera shipwreck. Hannes Schroeder snaps on…

The German consumer watchdog has threatened legal action against WhatsApp over its hugely controversial data sharing deal with Facebook. The two companies have received huge amounts of anger from their users over the announcement last month that they would start sharing data with each other. That…

DEATH AT THE NEEDLE: THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORIAN SEAMSTRESS MARY WALKLEY

'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

North Korea notoriously restricts access to the internet for its citizens, but it does, in fact, maintain some websites which can be seen outside the country. Most of these sites have always been accessible outside North Korea but on Tuesday an exhaustive list was revealed apparently for the first…

A woman at work beside ruins in the Angkor region of Cambodia. Credit Billy H.C. Kwok for The New York Times SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA — For decades, archaeologists here kept their eyes on the ground as they tramped through thick jungle, rice paddies and buffalo grazing fields, emerald green and soft with…

Obama Approved 2 Pipelines to Mexico Amid Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

11.8k Posted by u/BaronHK 2 years ago Archived Warning: Microsoft Signature PC program now requires that you can't run Linux. Lenovo's recent Ultrabooks among affected systems. Misleading title Update: Lenovo just updated the BIOS for the Yoga 710, another system that doesn't allow Linux installs.…

The Invisible American

When Allo was announced at Google’s I/O conference earlier this year , the messaging app was presented as a step forward for privacy. Alongside the end-to-end-encrypted Incognito Mode, the Allo team talked about bold new message retention practices, storing messages only transiently rather than…

The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging to the…

We’ve seen a proliferation of real-life video game builds lately, but this one is a jaw-dropper! [Tomer Daniel] and his crew of twelve hackers, welders, and coders built a Space Invaders game for GeekCon 2016. [Tomer] et al spent more time on the project than the writeup, so you’re going to have to…

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Drones are coming -- be afraid, be very, very afraid! While the term drone typically conjures images of the Terminator franchise's sinister Skynet corporation, or modern-day military warfare, the reality is less horrifying, but potentially more lucrative. Drones, also…

Jack Kirby was the man who imagined our world of superheroes. In partnership with Stan Lee and Joe Simon, Kirby created the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Doctor Doom, the Black Panther and many, many others . Kirby’s input had a bigger and longer lasting effect…