Ursula Burns says that Carl Icahn did not drive the decision to discusses the decision to break up the American corporate icon, but the activist investor will get three seats on the board. Credit CNBC By late November, Ursula M. Burns had finally conceded that the biggest takeover in Xerox ’s…

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Google Titan Google has a new top secret project by the same team that brought us Project Loon, according to The Guardian . It's called Project Skybender, and it aims to deliver 5G internet from solar drones. Mountain View has reportedly begun experimenting with millimeter wave-based internet in…

It's possible that you reached this article purely by chance, or you may have Googled 'how to change the default search engine in Microsoft Edge'. However you got here, the fact that you're reading this indicates that you're either interested in Windows 10's Edge, or actively use it -- and this…

Rich Dad, Poor Dad tells the story of the author's upbringing, and what he learned about money. Robert's real dad was the poor one, preaching work security, that money is hard to come by, and the importance of building a good career at a respectably company. Robert's best friend's dad, who acted as…

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) remains the problem child of the US military, with some operational tests abandoned in 2014, and buggy software proving a headache. The US military's Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) has released its latest annual report, and the F-35…

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One of the primary goals of Los Angeles County’s child welfare system is keeping kids out of lock-up. But in this pursuit, the county took a surprising step: It used a predictive analytics tool as part of a program to identify which specific kids might end up behind bars. The process wasn’t…

HEAVY LOAD: A passenger carries his belongings at a railway station in Kunming, Yunnan province. REUTERS/Stringer Bank of America Merrill Lynch became the most recent financial institution to start sounding scared about China's debt . While no one is panicking just yet, there sure are an increasing…

Next step: harvesting your data and sneaking it out of the building Next the attacker needs to install tools to exploit the network and harvest its data. The first software in the attacker’s toolkit are beacon code that calls out for more hardcore tools. IT managers need to watch out for these in…

Editorial The Need for a Tax on Financial Trading Credit Jason Heuer A financial transaction tax — a per-trade charge on the buying and selling of stocks, bonds and derivatives — is an idea whose time has finally come. It has begun percolating in the Democratic presidential campaign, with all three…

In this Jan. 21, 2016 photo, the Flint River is shown near downtown Flint, Mich. Flint’s water became contaminated with lead when the city switched from the Detroit municipal system and began drawing from the Flint River in April 2014 to save the financially struggling city money. (AP Photo/Paul…

A long time ago, a girl I was dating, asked me a question. The question was so bizarre I had to stop everything to digest it. She asked me when I would start living according to my status. I was confused. Status? What status? I have a status? What do you mean? She continued. Well you make decent…

Photograph by Alex Hoerner for Bloomberg Businessweek Warren Buffett controls Nevada’s legacy utility. Elon Musk is behind the solar company that’s upending the market. Let the fun begin.

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Lower back pain is an almost universal if unwelcome experience. About 80 percent of those of us in the Western world can expect to suffer from disruptive lower back pain at some point in our lives. But if we begin and…

The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic spy agency, has stopped sharing certain metadata with international partners after discovering it had not been sufficiently protecting that information before passing it on. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the sharing won't resume…

WASHINGTON — The cable set-top box, long a scourge of consumers and a moneymaker for cable companies, appears set for a makeover. The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced a proposal allowing cable and satellite subscribers to pick the devices they use to watch programming. Nearly…

Our brains have an extraordinary ability to monitor time. A driver can judge just how much time is left to run a yellow light; a dancer can keep a beat down to the millisecond. But exactly how the brain tracks time is still a mystery. Researchers have defined the brain areas involved in movement,…

Op-Ed Contributor Teachers Aren’t Dumb ONE of my colleagues at the University of Virginia, a world authority on how culture influences personality, almost didn’t become a professor. He wanted to teach high school, but went for his Ph.D. because it seemed easier; he thought he would fail the exacting…

What made the father of artificial intelligence so unforgettable was his extraordinary real-life mind Steven Levy Jan 26, 2016 Unlisted Photograph by Amy Sussman via Getty Images T here was a great contradiction about Marvin Minsky. As one of the creators of artificial intelligence (with John…

News Dean for graduate education to take leave, start new university By William Navarre Jan. 28, 2016 Professor Christine Ortiz is stepping down from her post as dean for graduate education to found a new residential research university. Formally, Ortiz is taking a one-year leave from the Institute…

In this 2012 photo, Rear Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic, speaks to the crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Spec. 3rd Class Heath Zeigler) For more than two years, the Navy’s intelligence chief has been stuck with a…

Then One/WIRED The government’s use of a controversial invasive technology for tracking phones just got a little more controversial. The Anaheim Police Department has acknowledged in new documents that it uses surveillance devices known as Dirtboxes—plane-mounted stingrays—on aircraft flying above…

Li Zhensheng/Contact Press Images Provincial Party Secretary Wang Yilun, being criticized by Red Guards from the University of Industry and forced to bear a placard with the accusation “counterrevolutionary revisionist element,” Harbin, China, August 23, 1966 By now, it has been nearly forty years…

The House Judiciary Committee has plans for a “members only” meeting next week to discuss Section 702 of the FISA Amendment Acts, the law the NSA relies on to operate its notorious PRISM surveillance program and to tap into the backbone of the Internet, also known as “upstream” collection. While we…

It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon on Christmas Day, a man from Indiana fell to his death from atop an ocean lookout at Sunset Cliffs,…

By second grade, it was clear that while Zack Smith could sit in a chair, he had no intention of staying in it. He was disruptive in class, spoke in a loud voice, and had a hard time taking turns with others. His parents fed him a ­series of medications for attention-deficit hyper­activity disorder,…

Road trips are synonymous with American life—but they weren’t always so. In the early 20th century, a few celebrity friends gave the tradition of disappearing down a lonesome highway a jump-start. When Henry Ford debuted the Model T in 1908, not everyone appreciated its promise. The famous nature…

Kamal Abdullah was born in Sudan and raised in the Gulf States before immigrating to the United States in 1982. Ten years later, he became an American citizen. He got an associate's degree in pre-engineering, and then finished his bachelor's in business administration at Kensington University.…

This post has been updated. For the first time, scientists have pinned down a molecular process in the brain that helps to trigger schizophrenia. The researchers involved in the landmark study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Natur e, say the discovery of this new genetic pathway…

A Chicago Police Department radio room where microphones and radios charge between shifts DNAinfo/Paul Biasco CHICAGO — Why are so many police dashcam videos silent? Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas…

Google wants everything on the web to be travelling over a secure channel. That's why in the future your Chrome browser will flag unencrypted websites as insecure, displaying a red "x" over a padlock in the URL bar. With this upcoming change in Chrome, Google makes it clear that the web of the…

Shifting money from offshore secrecy havens to the U.S. has become a brisk business for Rothschild & Co. One Turkish client is moving assets from the Bahamas to Nevada. Illustration: Steph Davidson Illustration: Steph Davidson Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew…

As an Indigenous woman in Canada, I’ve seen throughout my life how doctors and nurses put together false narratives of me. And I hate it. Naomi Sayers Jan 27, 2016 Photographs by Aaron Vincent Elkaim As the song goes , “O’ Canada! Our home and native land!” But I prefer the lyric, “O’ Canada! Our…

Chris Cox wants to mess with Facebook’s secret sauce. The most drastic change to Facebook in years was born a year ago during an off-site at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, a 10-minute drive from headquarters. Chris Cox, the social network’s chief product officer, led the discussion, asking each of…

A Google artificial intelligence program has beaten the European champion of the board game Go. The Chinese game is viewed as a much tougher challenge than chess for computers because there are many more ways a Go match can play out. The tech company's DeepMind division said its software had beaten…

Nature | News Sharing Autopsies reveal plaques in the brains of people who died after receiving grafts from cadavers. Alison Abbott Article tools Rights & Permissions Ref. 1 Deposits of amyloid-β protein (brown) in the frontal cortex of patients who developed CJD after surgery. For the second time…