Annabelle Narey posted a negative review of a building firm toon Mumsnet after the relationship turned acrimoniousPhotograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Writing a bad review online has always run a small risk of opening yourself up to a defamation claim. But few would expect to be told…

Flickr/liz west Laura Bliss May 24, 2016 For the first time since the 1880s, more young Americans are living with their parents than with a romantic partner. From stealth dorms to pod apartments , young Americans are finding all kinds of new ways to live within their means, on their own. But a…

The basic ideas behind autonomous cars are to tackle issues like urban congestion and passenger safety. When you hand over the driving duties, the autonomous vehicle will maintain a safe distance from the car ahead, keep itself within the lane markings, and brake in case there is a sudden object on…

I grew up Mormon. That meant no alcohol, no girls, and certainly no drugs. I was taught that the caffeine in a single cup of coffee was all that was needed to land you on a slippery slope that would eventually end with you in a gutter, needle dangling from your arm, and I had zero desire to dabble…

A large, X-class solar flare erupting on the surface of the sun in October 2014. Image: NASA Solar Dynamics Laboratory If a massive solar storm struck the Earth today, it could wipe out our technology and hurl us back to the dark ages. Lucky for us, events like this are quite rare. But four billion…

Rand Hindi Contributor Rand Hindi is the founder and CEO of Snips . More posts by this contributor Why you should bet big on privacy Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York, and the next site you visit shows you ads for New York hotels? As…

O n a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb…

The Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) takes flight (Image: ISRO) Early this morning, India launched its very first reusable space shuttle . These remarkable photos illustrate just how majestic the teensy shuttle looked as it took off. One of the things these photos underscore…

Chris Helgren/Reuters Set back on quiet College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, sits a dignified, four story, 19th-century house that belongs to Dr. Willoughby Britton. Inside, it is warm, spacious, and organized. The shelves are stocked with organic foods. A solid wood dining room table seats up…

Fox Animated sitcoms have long offered sharp insight into American culture. The Simpsons is so astute that, 16 years ago, the show predicted Donald Trump’s run for president. A running joke on Bob’s Burgers revolves around the “Burger of the Day,” with past entries including the “Sweet Home Avocado…

Update, December 1 : TSA sent me a certified letter constituting "final administrative action," denying my claim and telling me I can file a lawsuit if I disagree. Case finally closed, 7 months after I filed a claim. Update, July 23 : Delta finally replied to my lost item report. Summary: "Sorry! We…

TSA agents work at a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Monday. The House committee says the head of security for TSA has been removed from his post after inquiries into the agency's management. Mel Evans/AP Updated at 7 a.m. Tuesday The head of security for…

The business founder and investor discusses America, globalization, and the state of technological innovation. Click "Show more" to view all chapters. For more conversations, visit http://conversationswithbillkristol.org Chapter 1 ( - ): China and Globalization Chapter 2 ( - ): Is Innovation…

The FBI wants to block individuals from knowing if their information is in a massive repository of biometric records, which includes fingerprints and facial scans, if the release of information would "compromise" a law enforcement investigation. The FBI’s biometric database, known as the “ Next…

By Subaru’s marketing strategy had just died in a fit of irony. It was the mid 1990s, and sales of Subaru cars were in decline. To reverse the company’s fortunes, Subaru of America had created its first luxury car—even though the small automaker was known for plain but dependable cars—and hired a…

Commuters using smartphones stand in line at a bus station in Beijing on March 2. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) BEIJING — First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing information harmful to…

A newly-classified fossil gives clues to how life in the oceans recovered from a mass extinction about 250 million years ago. The reptile is an early relative of the ichthyosaurs - a large group of marine reptiles that swam at the time of the dinosaurs. With its tiny toothless head, the creature is…

One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable interfaces. The New York Public Library, for instance, has historic menus and interactive floor plans .…

Michael Vaudreuil on graduation day. (Courtesy: Joyce Vaudreuil) When Michael Vaudreuil’s college classmates were in the library studying together at night, he was wiping down chalkboards and picking up their trash. But this weekend, donning a black cap and gown, he stood with them not as a…

Silicon Valley has sold us on a cashless, cardless, walletless, supposedly frictionless future — but as I learned living in it for a month, we're not quite there yet. It’s the dead of winter in Stockholm and I’m sitting in a very small room inside the very inaptly named Calm Body Modification…

Speaking to a packed auditorium at InnovFest unBound ( Singapore’s annual tech conference) yesterday, the Singaporean foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan said: “If any one of you has an idea, or a product, or a service, which makes life better for citizens: come to Singapore. Prove it, test it,…

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The New Health Care Our belief in the power of breakfast is based on misinterpreted research and poor studies. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times I don’t eat breakfast. It’s not that I dislike what’s offered. Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I’d almost always choose eggs or…

The college debt crisis is even worse than you think

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of 1.4 billion yen ($12.7 million) in cash has been stolen from some 1,400 automated teller machines in convenience stores across Japan in the space of two hours earlier this month, investigative sources said Sunday. Police suspect that the cash was withdrawn at ATMs using…

The Chevy Bolt is a real electric car whose battery pack will have a range of 200 miles. Geoff Robins/Getty Images First generations of technology are always clunky, kludgy, and way too expensive. TVs were once the size of refrigerators. Personal computers had giant cathode ray tubes and virtually…

From MinWin to ServerCore The MinWin work first shipped in Windows Vista. Subsequent releases have followed its principles—including the stricter approach to how dependencies are taken—and extended them, with the kernel and individual drivers split up into smaller, more manageable, less entangled…

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Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. The massive metal double doors open and I’m hit with a whoosh of warm air. Inside the hatchery, enormous racks are stacked floor to ceiling with brown eggs. The racks shake every few seconds, jostling the eggs to simulate the…

In the early months of 2003, the National Security Agency saw demand for its services spike as a new war in Iraq, as well as ongoing and profound changes in how people used the internet, added to a torrent of new agency work related to the war on terror, according to a review of 166 articles from a…

The huge gap between current CMS offerings and what the world needed occurred to me during my time as CTO of The Huffington Post . When we were acquired by AOL in 2011, I inherited 53 properties built on dozens of different content management systems. It wasn't long after that I soon realized they…

Last year, the United States spent more than $596 billion on the military, a total greater than the next six countries in the world combined. But the Republican-controlled Congress is looking to increase that number for next year. On Wednesday, the House passed its version of the annual National…

The EPA announced new drinking water health advisory levels today for the industrial chemicals PFOA and PFOS . The new levels — .07 parts per billion (ppb) for both chemicals — are significantly lower than standards the agency issued in 2009, which were .4 ppb for PFOA and .2 ppb for PFOS. In areas…

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As the weather warms and Memorial Day looms, children and adults alike will soon be flocking to swimming pools. But just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, a new report from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is warning water-lovers to be careful before jumping…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) slammed criminal justice reform efforts in the Senate on Thursday, calling the policy agenda “wrong” and “dangerous.” If anything, he said, the country has an “under-incarceration problem.” “Take a look at the facts. First, the claim that too many criminals are being jailed,…