A security expert has noticed an unprecedented spike in the number of hidden addresses on the Tor network. Prof Alan Woodward at the University of Surrey spotted an increase of more than 25,000 .onion "dark web" services. Prof Woodward said he was not sure how best to explain the sudden boom. One…

Half the world's population (nearly 5 billion) will be short-sighted (myopic) by 2050, with up to one-fifth of them (1 billion) at a significantly increased risk of blindness if current trends continue, says a study published in the journal Ophthalmology . advertisement The number with vision loss…

by Isoroku Yamamoto Update: A newer version of the chrome extension is available here . Wall Street Journal fixed their “ paste a headline into Google News ” paywall trick. However, Google can still index the content. Digital publications allow discriminatory access for search engines by inspecting…

Although users are now saturated with options on mobile and desktop for encrypted messaging, very few of the tools available deal with the core problem of metadata. Even if the content of your messages is kept from prying eyes, it may still be possible for a resourceful attacker to see who you are,…

This article was updated with additional analysis of what the new rules may mean, and information about foreign investment in China. In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested…

Behavioral Finance Experiencing Short-Term Losses Is a Part of Long-Term Gains Far from unusual, downturns are an integral part of even the highest returning investments. By Dan Egan Managing Director of Behavioral Finance & Investing, Betterment | Published: February 9, 2016 Investors often worry…

Above: Civilization game designers Bruce Shelley, Sid Meier, Brian Reynolds, and Soren Johnson. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi LAS VEGAS — Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991,…

Photo Credit Illustration by Anna Parini Editors’ note: Be mindful that this article is from early 2016, but know that your mindfulness helps your mind and body. The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various…

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I know exactly how many inches over the knee you have to photoshop a woman's shorts to get a photo on the cover of a magazine in the Persian Gulf. For five years, I wrote in code. A Harley Davidson was never a "hog." Sex and the City became a string of letters, SATC. And when I interviewed Antonio…

China has deployed the powerful HQ-9 air and missile defense system to Woody Island — also known as Yongxing — in the Parcel archipelago, marking a new level of escalation in Beijing’s quest to control the South China Sea. The disputed island — which has been inhabited by about 1,000 Chinese…

Computer programs that scan facial expressions have been used to detect whether people respond positively to commercials or whether hospital patients are in pain. Can they also read a CEO’s mind? James Cicon thinks they can. A finance professor at University of Central Missouri, Cicon built software…

NBCUniversal-owned Fandango continues to expand beyond movie ticketing, announcing today that it has acquired Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes from Warner Bros. Entertainment. Flixster allows users to learn more about movies, while Rotten Tomatoes is the best-known aggregator of movie reviews — it’s…

In 2012 the world learned of a surprising research project inside Google’s secretive X lab. A giant simulation of three million neurons learned to recognize cats and people in pictures, without human help, just by looking at images taken from YouTube. The people behind the project founded a new…

Keith Srakocic / AP Images The Steady Rise of Renting Richard Florida Feb 16, 2016 The Great Housing Reset marches on, especially in superstar cities and prominent tech hubs. Writing in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008, I argued that the ultimate impact of the crash would be a “ Great…

Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. | AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Yahoo is shutting down a number of its content verticals, Yahoo global editor in chief Martha Nelson confirmed on Wednesday. "On our recent earnings call, Yahoo outlined out a plan to simplify our business and focus our effort on…

When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright infringement. Amongst those provisions, the following footnote allowed countries some flexibility in…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he would raise the price of gasoline as he faces growing pressure to ease an economic crisis.Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro , has announced the first rise in petrol prices in 20 years and a sharp…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is expanding its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries, the latest example of the tech titan’s increasing push into consumers’ daily lives. Google said it would begin delivering produce, meat, eggs and other perishable goods on Wednesday in parts of San Francisco and…

FILE - This May 14, 2013 file photo shows salt shakers at a restaurant in Alexandria, Va. A large international study challenges the advice for most people to cut back on salt. Unless they have high blood pressure, the amount most folks consume is OK for heart health, and too little may be as bad as…

State of the Art Credit Stuart Goldenberg If you’ve never heard of the human-resources start-up Zenefits, get ready to never forget it. The company announced last week an escalating series of errors and investigations that will most likely go down as a defining scandal of the latest tech boom. The…

A Danish security company has detected an attempt to spread a powerful form of Android malware via text messages. Mazar can gain administrator rights on phones, allowing it to wipe handsets, make calls or read texts. However, it will not install on phones where the language is set to Russian.…

A revolutionary new cancer treatment that remembers the disease and acts like a watchman to prevent it ever returning is being developed by scientists. Researchers are engineering immune cells so that they not only boost the body’s own natural defences to fight tumours, but stand guard for a…

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CCTV is ubiquitous in the UK. A recent study estimates there are about 1.85m cameras across the UK – most in private premises. Most of those cameras will be connected to some kind of recording device, which these days means a Digital Video Recorder or DVR. DVRs take video feeds from multiple cameras…

A lan Turing could not have cracked the Enigma Code without the help of Polish mathematicians and it is time to "right the wrong" and acknowledge their contribution, the Polish government has said. Deciphering the German system is believed to have shortened World War Two by two years and saved…

Sorry, Kyle Bass, you're a bit late to the game. The debt problem in China has already reached the proportions of the U.S. subprime mortgage debacle. Don't worry, though: Chinese authorities are on the case -- discussing reducing the required coverage for bad loans so that banks can keep booking…

Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI’s request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen’s iPhone 5C. Since then, many have argued whether these requests from the FBI are technically feasible given the support for strong encryption on iOS…

A view of Oxford. As many young people are frozen out of home ownership, there are signs that housing is moving up the political agenda.Photograph: Alamy Nine out of 10 Britons on modest incomes under the age of 35 will be frozen out of home ownership within a decade, according to a study from a…

How the anatomy of an email could determine the next Democratic presidential nominee.

A few minutes before 10pm Houston time on 20 July 1969, TV stations across the world interrupt their programming to bring historic news. The words ‘live from the Moon’ flash across the screen and the picture flickers to reveal a metal ladder against a dusty monochrome landscape. A boot comes into…

While motorized human transporters have yet to truly take off, the folks over at Nissan have come up with something more practical for the time being: self-parking office chairs. With a single clap, these futuristic furniture will automagically tuck themselves back into their rightful positions,…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 8, 2008. (photo credit: REUTERS) Gen. Michael Hayden, former head of both the CIA and the NSA, claims the goal of a potential Israeli strike on Iran would be to drag the…

Catherine de’ Medici, c. 1560. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons ) Throughout history, Catherine de’ Medici has been considered something of a sorceress, a 16th-century French queen and banking heiress adroitly trained in the mixing of potions and capable of murder without a hint of remorse. One…