The water levels in Lake Mead, the man-made reservoir that serves about 20 million residents in Nevada, Arizona and California, is at an all-time low, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Lake Mead's water level -- currently at an elevation of 1,074 feet -- is expected to drop even more in…

The FDA is is expected to decide by May 27 whether a long-acting, implantable version of this anti-addiction drug, buprinorphine, will be available in the United States. The implant is more convenient, proponents say, and less likely to be abused. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Amid a raging opioid…

Aerial photo of Totten Glacier’s ice shelf edge. (Jamin Greenbaum) Scientists ringing alarm bells about the melting of Antarctica have focused most of their attention, so far, on the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet, which is grounded deep below sea level and highly exposed to the influence of…

Last month, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, joined by Stephen Hawking and other esteemed scientists, announced a plan that still sounds impossibly brazen: They want to send a fleet of tiny probes to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our own. The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative would…

Sandhill cranes land in flooded fields to roost for the night at the Sandhill Crane Reserve near Thornton, California, November 3, 2015. REUTERS/Max Whittaker OTTAWA (Reuters) - More than a third of all North American bird species are at risk of becoming extinct unless significant action is taken,…

When discussing how to curb recruitment by militant groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) or Jabat Al Nusra, we often hear of the need to reduce their ideological appeal among young people in Syria and beyond. But more and more evidence shows that the young Syrian men who decide to join these groups…

Illustration by Anna Kovecses A t any given moment, you have somewhere between 10 trillion and 100 trillion microorganisms inhabiting your gut — that’s more microbes in your bowels than there are cells in your body. If that isn’t impressive enough, consider that collectively these microbes have…

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Tristan Harris May 18, 2016 Estimated reading time: 12 minutes. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google…

As recently as 2013, renewables provided only about 23% of Portugal’s electricity. By 2015 that figure had risen to 48%.Photograph: Pete Titmuss/Alamy Stock Photo Portugal kept its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days last week in a clean energy milestone revealed by data…

After seeing the Open Data Institute’s project on the changing British Diet , I couldn’t help but wonder how the American diet has changed over the years. The United States Department of Agriculture keeps track of these sort of things through the Food Availability Data System . The program estimates…

Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Shanghai. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg China’s government fabricates about 488 million social media comments a year -- nearly the same as one day of Twitter’s total global volume -- in a massive effort to…

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Image from Google patent number 9340178 Google loves to brag about how its self-driving cars have the ability to save lives by being really good at not crashing into things. But crashes do still happen , and when they do, Google apparently has a backup plan: human flypaper. Yesterday, Google was…

S ometime in 1882, a skinny, dark-haired, 11-year-old boy named Harry Brearley entered a steelworks for the first time. A shy kid—he was scared of the dark, and a picky eater—he was also curious, and the industrial revolution in Sheffield, England, offered much in the way of amusements. He enjoyed…

At Healthy Holistic Living we search the web for great health content to share with you. This article is shared with permission from our friends at GreenMedInfo . Almonds labeled “raw” in the United States are harboring a scary secret. Here’s how you can avoid it. Are almonds safe to eat? (And the…

The Voorhes O ne evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through channels on the television, when she happened to catch a teaser for an upcoming news segment on KHOU 11, the local CBS affiliate. She leapt to her feet. “I scared the kids, I…

Fitbit is purchasing (almost all of) Coin, the payments startup that developed a universal credit card replacement . The world's biggest maker of wearable technology can now leverage Coin's know-how and integrate NFC-based commerce to its hardware. Fitbit has already said that there are "no plans"…

Perhaps the boldest hope is to create farm animals that have human organs that could be transplanted into terminally ill patients.

Picture: Low-tech Magazine's solar powered office. Solar panels have become cheaper and more efficient in recent years, but they are far from a universal solution, even in sunny regions. One reason is that a typical solar photovoltaic (PV) installation is still beyond the budget of many people. The…

Legal Issues from the score-one-for-the-internet's-unofficial-backup-system dept Those of us who dwell on the internet already know the Internet Archive's " Wayback Machine " is a useful source of evidence. For one, it showed that the bogus non-disparagement clause KlearGear used to go after an…

Almost two dozen Australian government emails have been exposed by hackers who breached an online dating website that restricts its membership to only attractive people. The website, Beautiful People, sifts out ugly singles, and claims to have more than one million global members. Those users,…

Last week we got news of the Rosebutt data breach . This is a very particular class of site and like many others we've recently seen compromised, it's highly likely that members would have preferred to keep their identities secret. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with the lifestyle choice of…

Paul Salo is an man with questions. Questions like: "Will people give me oodles of cash to smash a jumbo jet into a building, all in the name uncovering the truth , man?" (I'm paraphrasing here.) Let me explain. Salo , an American-born businessman currently living in Asia, is crowdfunding at least…

This Harvard-made 3D printer can create complex metallic objects other printers can't. See, instead of spitting out one layer over another, the machine was designed to ooze out metal that immediately freezes solid. That allows it to print free-form patterns that look like they're suspended in air,…

May 16, 2016 19 Photos In Focus As reported last week here in the Atlantic, Venezuela is falling apart . Over the past two years, triple-digit inflation, massive shortages, rising crime rates, and failing public services have left many in desperate situations. Reuters photographer Carlos Garcia…

After targeting the Islamic State group and the Ku Klux Klan in 2015, the rogue hacker collective Anonymous declared " total war " on Republican Party frontrunner Donald Trump . Now, Anonymous is proving it's not messing around. On Thursday, Anonymous released what it claims to be Trump's Social…

The Sykes–Picot Agreement map: the map that changed the Middle East. It was an enclosure in the French ambassador Paul Cambon’s letter to Sir Edward Grey, dated 9th May 1916. Seven days later the two would sign the Sykes–Picot Agreement, a secret agreement between the the UK and France outlining,…

For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing 3 bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM). In this photo, the experimental multi-bit PCM chip used by IBM scientists is connected to a standard integrated…

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The LinkedIn hack of 2012 just got a whole lot worse. If you recall, in 2012 LinkedIn reset users’ passwords after hackers broke into the network, stole a database of password hashes, and posted some 6.5 million account credentials on a Russian password forum. LinkedIn was left humbled by the…

Is it time to give up sex? Oh, it has plenty to recommend it; but as a way of making babies it leaves an awful lot to chance. I mean, you might have some pretty good genes, but – let’s face it – some of them aren’t so great. Male pattern baldness, phenylketonuria, enhanced risk of breast cancer: I’m…

Let's finish the day with another visit to Tim Weiner's book on the history of the CIA. T he Guardian reports that one of the hot movies at Cannes is a documentary about the horrors visited upon the nation of Chad by its leader, Hissein Habre, a thoroughgoing monster who was in charge there until…

By Kevin Poulsen Typography by Michiel Schuurman One Thursday in January 2001, Maksym Igor Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, walked nervously through the doors of the United States embassy in London. While Popov could have been mistaken for an exchange student applying for a visa, in truth he was…

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629 points User submission 454K 1.2M Technology 1.2M views Technology James Gould-Bourn Community member Most of us have found ourselves in the awkward situation of trying to communicate in a foreign language. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s embarrassing. And sometimes it’s downright…