The possible discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking site on a Canadian island could rewrite the story of the exploration of North America by Europeans before Christopher Columbus. The unearthing of a stone used in iron working on Newfoundland, hundreds of miles south from the only known Viking site in…

Technology Gone Wild How cheap sensors, ubiquitous computing, and networks of enthusiastic amateurs are building a new planetary nervous system Migratory patterns of Western Meadowlarks ( via eBird ) B irding — the amateur pursuit of watching and monitoring bird populations — is a big deal. The…

he FBI wouldn’t comment on the alert, only saying that it was just another example of a routine notice to private partners, “provided in order to help systems administrators guard against the actions of persistent cyber criminals.”

Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation

Residential property in San Francisco. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images When automation-software company executive David Nichols and his wife were preparing to start a family last year, he learned that the rent on his San Francisco office was set…

China has announced a series of sanctions against North Korea. The country has restricted imports of North Korean coal and sales of jet fuel under UN sanctions. Read more of The Independent's North Korea coverage We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 $0.27 a…

THE PUNDITS said it would never happen. But both California and New York on Monday implemented legislation that moves them toward a tiered minimum wage of $15 an hour, covering 60 million Americans. The hikes come as a direct result of organizing by thousands of people in the union-backed “Fight for…

Let’s start with the caveats: no, Tesla did not sell 276,000 Model 3’s in three days; 1 that is the number of fully refundable pre-orders that required a deposit of “only” $1,000. 2 And yes, Tesla has a history of delivering cars late and with a higher price than expected. Moreover, given the fact…

Foreign cash has fueled Miami's luxury boom, but revelations about how much of it is dirty could end the field day. photo by Rabson Senat via Flickr CC Tim Elfrink | April 4, 2016 | 9:05am A A Last night, one of the biggest data leaks in history hit the web. The leak comes via a firm in Panama with…

The anonymous Web surfing system Tor is run by volunteers — and sometimes they get caught between the police and criminal suspects. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images When the FBI tried to force Apple to unlock an iPhone last month , it was a battle of titans. There were high-powered lawyers…

This story is part of BBC Earth's " Best of 2016 " list, our greatest hits of the year. Browse the full list . My reverie as I walk through Costa Rica's beautiful Corcovado National Park is brought to a sudden halt when the guide's arm slams into my chest. "Stop!" he shouts, pointing at something…

For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter . The company's refusal touched off a searing debate over privacy and security in the digital age. But this morning, at a small office…

A new website promises to find out if someone is using Tinder.Photograph: Alamy Tinder isn’t as private as many of its users think, and a new website which aims to exploit that is causing concern among users of the dating app. Swipebuster promises to let Tinder users find out whether people they…

Moe Adham Apr 4, 2016 Most people think bitcoin is anonymous. In fact, new technologies trace BTC transactions, attempting to identify bitcoin users. A number of startups have raised money to explore these new possibilities, such as: Elliptic — $5M Chainalysis — $1.6M Coinalytics — $1.1M Scorechain…

The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission publishes summary reports that include aggregate statistics about taxi, Uber, and Lyft usage. These are in addition to the trip-level data that I wrote about previously; although the summary reports contain much less detail, they’re updated more…

“It’s worse than wicked, my dear, it’s vulgar” Punch Almanac, 1876 Collusion between the Clinton campaign and the DNC allowed Hillary Clinton to buy the loyalty of 33 state Democratic parties last summer. Montana was one of those states. It sold itself for $64,100. The Super Delegates now defying…

According to Crow tradition, a man must fulfill certain requirements to become chief of the tribe: command a war party successfully, enter an enemy camp at night and steal a horse, wrestle a weapon away from his enemy and touch the first enemy fallen, without killing him. Joe Medicine Crow was the…

Bren Smith Mar 25, 2016 I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to swim. This is my story. It’s a story of ecological redemption. I was born and raised in Petty…

Inside Meow Wolf, the amusement park for people who want a weirder Disneyland

Police cars are parked as policemen stand guard outside a court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou January 29, 2016. Photo: Reuters When you’re a cop in a country of 1.3 billion people, playing hide-and-seek with suspected criminals can be a daunting task. Researchers at a Chinese university…

If your home relies on a Revolv smart-home hub, you're in trouble. David McNew/Getty Images Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding company Alphabet, is dropping support for a line of products — and will make customers' existing devices completely useless. It's a move that has…

Netflix is in terrible danger. In fact, these might be its last days. Oh, not today's Netflix. The Netflix you're using today is fine . It made it—got to do something daring and edgy, prove out its model, and become part of the establishment. But the next Netflix—the company so cool it makes Netflix…

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The biggest source of fresh cash in American equities isn’t speculators or exchange-traded funds -- it’s companies buying their own stock, by a 6-to-1 margin.

The hidden wealth of some of the world’s most prominent leaders, politicians and celebrities has been revealed by an unprecedented leak of millions of documents that show the myriad ways in which the rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes. The Guardian, working with global partners, will…

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. The Running Email Get Well’s Running email for practical tips, expert advice, exclusive content and a bit of motivation delivered to your inbox every week to help you on your running journey. Coming soon. Sign up now. To…

Philosophy is no longer a field conducted entirely from the comfort of an armchair. Over the past decade, this notoriously abstract discipline has developed a branch of “experimental philosophy” that conducts its own scientific studies. Though such work continues to face resistance from conventional…

New Report Analyzes How Crypto Backdoors, Interference with Crypto, and Compelled Disclosure of Encryption Keys All Impact Free Expression and Privacy Defending encryption is a human rights issue, according to a new Amnesty International report . The report calls on nation-states to promote the use…

In 2007, after his freshman year at the University of Texas San Antonio, James Moore dropped out. His mother, recently divorced, lived on a single income; even after selling her house, she couldn’t afford tuition. Forced to drop out and already facing formidable student debt, Moore didn’t give up on…

Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time.

More than 1,000 women are suing the company for covering up a cancer risk. Jacqueline Fox worked in restaurant kitchens and school cafeterias, cleaned people’s houses, watched their kids, raised a son, and took in two foster children. She was careful about her appearance and liked to tend the garden…

With the Wisconsin primary just a week away, the remaining presidential candidates are descending on the Badger State. National frontrunner Donald Trump, who hasn’t made a campaign appearance in several days, ventured Monday morning into unfriendly territory : Wisconsin talk radio, where hosts have…

The little-known Japanese company at the center of a legal tussle between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government over the hacking of an iPhone built its business on pinball game machines and stumbled into the mobile phone security business almost by accident. Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization Ltd .…

Annette Shattuck and her family inside of their home on March 29, 2016, in Port Huron, Mich. (Photo by Ali Lapetina/For the Washington Post) A self-described Michigan “soccer mom” who had “every belonging” taken from her family in a 2014 drug raid has been cleared of all criminal charges, 19 months…

Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.

One week before the Brussels terrorist attacks, a Saudi-led coalition bombed a market in Mastaba, Yemen. Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels — 106 versus 34 — the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they've ignored most of the 150…