According to a study of tweets related to hundreds of TV shows and thousands of episodes, social analytics TV company Canvs found that feelings of hate lead to bigger increases in viewership the following week for drama and reality shows. In fact, hate might be three times more powerful of a driving…

We have heard a lot about ATM skimmers, but it's nearly impossible to spot one. Some skimmers are designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original machine and attached to the front, and others are completely hidden inside the ATM. But, during his vacation in Vienna, Austria, cyber…

State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS On Friday, June 24, Russia's State Duma approved a final draft of several anti-terrorist laws spearheaded by deputy Irina Yarovaya. Though lawmakers removed many of the legislation's most odious amendments at the last minute…

by Josh Evans Honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) have mastered feats of chemical engineering as various as they are alchemical. Their most well-known substances are of course honey, their concentrated, stable, hive-warming energy source, and wax, their pliable, moisture-proof structural material. Yet…

Farmers are adopting smart-sensor technologies and connected farm equipment more quickly than ever , stretching each season to eke out greater yield from finite acreage. This rise in so-called precision agriculture has precipitated a massive influx in unstructured “bushels to bytes” farm data ,…

To go with India-environment-pollution,FOCUS by Trudy Harris In this photograph taken on December 18, 2015, Indian commuters travel on a polluted road near a bus terminus in the Anand Vihar District of New Delhi. Anger and alarm are rapidly rising throughout sprawling New Delhi over the air quality…

A report by the ACLU released on Wednesday accuses the federal government of failing to naturalize, and then deporting, immigrants after they serve in the military. Gregory Bull / AP The U.S. government has for years been unfairly deporting veterans after botching their naturalization process,…

Luxury building ‘The Charles’ towers over First Avenue on the upper east side of Manhattan in New York.Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters The top 1% of Americans are finally recovering from the great recession. A new analysis of IRS data revealed that the average income of the top 1% of income…

For weeks in the fall of 1967 the cowboys rode from sunrise to sunset in search of the creature no one had ever captured on film. Two rodeo men from Washington’s apple country, they’d traveled to Northern California’s thick forest. They’d read headlines of unidentifiable footprints. The smaller…

Above: Avast Wi-Fi Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat Security software giant Avast Software has acquired rival AVG Technologies. Avast will pay $25 cash for each of AVG’s outstanding ordinary shares in a deal amounting to around $1.3 billion. Founded out of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s —…

Mike Janke, co-founder of Silent Circle, makers of the Blackphone. The company has confirmed layoffs as the future of the phone looks in doubt. Photo credit: Paul J Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Silent Circle, the company behind privacy-focused Blackphone, is in the midst of a troubled period. It's…

A female polar bear swam for a record-breaking nine days straight, traversing 426 miles (687 kilometers) of water—equivalent to the distance between Washington, D.C. , and Boston , a new study says. The predator made her epic journey in the Beaufort Sea (see map) , where sea ice is shrinking due to…

The first in a series of articles where we’ll take a look at an important book on the subject of business, investing or personal finance. It only seemed appropriate that for our first Five Minute Read, we focus on the book that’s at the core of the whole Rubicoin philosophy – ‘One Up On Wall Street’…

Snow, the popular South Korean Snapchat clone, has a dog filter for images, right, that looks very similar to Snapchat’s, left. HONG KONG — It sends short, self-destructing messages. It has a place to share videos called stories. It has camera filters that transform a person into a koala, a fried…

Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #39 Disaster by Design The best aspect of the defense-in-depth approach to nuclear power safety is that one thing, even one very bad thing, is unlikely to trigger an accident. If offsite power is lost, onsite power from emergency diesel generators will…

06 Jul 2016 Feed 228 up Image credits : Original photo by Rikki Endsley. CC BY-SA 4.0 x Get the newsletter Join the 85,000 open source advocates who receive our giveaway alerts and article roundups. My late father, Lou Shapiro , was an early leader of UNICEF , so relief work was baked into the…

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This wide-field view shows the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) along with its companions M32 (below centre) and NGC 205 (upper right). The extend of the new PHAT survey of Andromeda using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is shown by the irregularly shaped region and the main image presented here by…

First & Last photo by Cory Poole: https://www.facebook.com/CoryPoolePho... Music is 'Koda - The Last Stand' Listen: https://soundcloud.com/onlykoda/koda-... Download: http://bit.ly/1CKxuE3 Super-high resolution image of Andromeda from Hubble (NASA/ESA): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/... We…

Check out this mind-bending video that talks about the “Hubble Ultra Deep Field” image captured by NASA astronomers nearly a decade ago — a photograph that some call “the most important image ever taken.” It all started back in 1996 when a group of astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at…

Intelligent robots are all well and good until they start learning how to hunt prey. That's exactly what a team of scientists at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland did. They taught a robot to behave like a predator and hunt "prey," or a robot controlled by a…

A defiant Tony Blair defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 following the publication of a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot, which mauled the ex-prime minister’s reputation and said that at the time of the 2003 invasion Saddam Hussein “posed no imminent threat”. Looking tired, his…

We live, we are so often told, in an information age. It is an era obsessed with space, time and speed, in which social media inculcates virtual lives that run parallel to our “real” lives and in which communications technologies collapse distances around the globe. Many of us struggle with the…

By Pricing a product can be a thorny issue. Will customers interpret a low price as a bargain, or as a sign of a low quality? Is allowing people to pay what they want for a product a profitable strategy? Despite Econ 101’s promise of finding the perfect price at the intersection of a supply and a…

« Back to Planio Blog Belle Beth Cooper on July 04, 2016 Belle Beth Cooper Belle is an iOS developer and writer. She’s also a co-founder of Hello Code, a Melbourne-based startup. July 04, 2016 · 9 min read 4 ways to get motivated when you don't feel like working Every week I write up to three new…

The springs of the San Marcos River in central Texas have plenty of extraordinary traits: Each day, they release about 100 million gallons of water, forming the life source for one of the longest-inhabited places in North America. They’re also the primary habitat for several endangered species,…

We spent time with four different communities and asked them about their experiences. Here’s what we learned. California Sunday Jun 28, 2016 By Lauren Smiley Photograph by Matt Mimiaga In boomtown San Francisco , there’s little slack for kids still finding their way. Housing is crunched. Rents top…

The floating farm proposed for Rotterdam’s harbour.Illustration: Beladon Do cows get seasick? It’s not a question farmers often ask, except in the Dutch city of Rotterdam where a team of developers plans to build a floating dairy . “They won’t here,” says Minke van Wingerden of Beladon, a company…

A teacher with a pupil at the Evangelical School Berlin Centre.Photograph: Handout A nton Oberländer is a persuasive speaker. Last year, when he and a group of friends were short of cash for a camping trip to Cornwall, he managed to talk Germany’s national rail operator into handing them some free…

Telescopes as we know them today trace their origins back to the Enlightenment. The earliest such devices emerged about 400 years ago. But humankind has fashioned environments for stargazing for far longer than that. Scholars have long speculated about the astronomical orientation of the Pyramids at…

A quarter of all public M&A transactions may be tainted by some form of insider trading, and only a fraction of those instances result in government prosecution, according to a new study. The study , by professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business and McGill University, looked at…

Secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with approval from two internal officials — far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures. The classified rules , obtained by The Intercept and dating from 2013, govern the FBI’s use of national security letters, which…

The Rosetta spacecraft will soon get too close to Comet 67P for comfort. In fact, it will crash into the comet. European Space Agency After launching 12 years ago and achieving its primary mission of reaching an orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the aging Rosetta spacecraft will now die.…

Glass Sphere Betaray Concentrates Solar and Lunar Energy The glass sphere that was a finalist at the World Technology Network Award of 2013 by German designer Andre Broessel at Rawlemon is now seen as one of the most promising advances in solar energy. At that time, he had submitted the design for a…

On a recent Tuesday evening in London, the surgeon David Nott attended a dinner at Bluebird, an upscale Chelsea restaurant. The room was packed with doctors, renowned specialists who had come for the annual consultants’ dinner of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, one of Britain’s leading medical…

Sean Blanda Jan 7, 2016 There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion afterward and you aren’t allowed to “argue” — only to ask questions about why that person feels…