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21. Mai 2004: Abgefangene Funksprüche Kommandant: Wer hat Lukodi angegriffen? Dominic Ongwen: Ah, das war ich. Kommandant: Wie bitte? Ongwen: Das war ich. Over. Kommandant (lacht): Ich habe gehört, dass sie mehr als hundert Häuser angezündet haben. Ongwen: Genau so ist es passiert. Kommandant: Sie…

Rendering digital images in a new way holds a lot of possibilities Bryan Boyer 12 min read· Dec 22, 2018 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size All photos: Bryan Boyer, unless noted Walking around Brasília some years ago, I had the distinct feeling that I was doing it “wrong”—because, of…

Holiday parties were right around the corner, and I needed a cover story. I didn’t feel like admitting to casual acquaintances, or even to some good friends, that I drive a van for Amazon. I decided to tell them, if asked, that I consult for Amazon, which is loosely true: I spend my days consulting…

Photo: Artwork by Ayatgali Tuleubek In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their…

It was only day two, and already the spectacle that is Dreamforce had left me no choice but to eat some weed. I chewed up half of a strong California gummy, the kind that you buy legally in an Apple $AAPL store for stoners, and settled into a couch on a terrace overlooking San Francisco. I had come…

Finnish band called Steve'n'Seagulls plays AC/DC's awesome song called Thunderstruck. Recorded by Jaakko Manninen Photography. HAVE YOU HEARD STEVE'N'SEAGULLS NEW ORIGINAL SONG? GIVE IT A LISTEN HERE: https://youtu.be/7_UgEu5T0Ts?si=RNjogByRiYKI4On0 WANT TO BUY CD OR LP? Steve ´n´ Seagulls…

Published December 17, 2018 12:00AM One day three years ago, I went for a run around Green Lake, a favorite route near my home in Seattle. It was early September, just after Labor Day, one of those bronzed afternoons when the thermometer still says summer but the school buses and quickened pulse of…

User submission 16K Photography & Digital Art Published Dec 01, 2016 Community member 710 For the last 8 years I’ve been shooting in the San Francisco area I have been absolutely obsessed with the fog. Night and day it’s what I live for and what defines my photographic style. I check the cams,…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Your creepy stalker ex-boyfriend knows you just left the gym. I’m sure he’s over you. Member-only story Jason T. Voiovich 13 min read· Dec 17, 2018 -- Google Maps is free, isn’t it? It seems like a question with an obvious answer, doesn’t it? Of…

von Miriam Suter 14.12.2018 «Medien müssen begreifen, dass sie noch nie ausgewogen waren.» Die Soziologin Franziska Schutzbach hat sich für ihr neues Buch mit der «Rhetorik der Rechten» auseinandergesetzt. Von den Medien fordert sie ein intensiveres Nachdenken darüber, welchen Raum sie eindeutigen…

Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets, laptops, and video game consoles. Now, it appears that cameras could someday become as inconspicuous as a pane of glass. According to new…

Blockchain—which includes crypto-assets, ledgers that track those assets, and many applications—is upending whole industries, sparking radically democratic ideas, and creating a new elite. As this uprising gathers momentum, BREAKER Magazine is here to tell the stories of this space and to argue…

Europe's Far Right.Research NetworkShare on 30. November 2018Wie sich christliche FundamentalistInnen, radikale AbtreibungsgegnerInnen und rechte Parteien verbünden, um an die Macht in Europa zu gelangen Verona, 4. Oktober 2018. Im Palazzo Barbieri, der mit seinen neoklassischen Säulen an einen…

Es braucht nicht viel, um zu ihrem Ziel zu werden. Ein falsches T-Shirt, die falsche Zeitung in der Hand. Oder eine politische Meinung, die sie nicht teilen. Attackiert wird zum Beispiel, wer in ihrer Gegenwart den chinesischen Staatsgründer Mao Zedong kritisiert. Oder wer es wagt, sich öffentlich…

Unsere Recherche über das weltweite Entführungsprogramm des türkischen Geheimdiensts schlägt hohe Wellen: die türkische Regierungspresse rückt uns in die Nähe von angeblichen Terroristen, viele deutsche Politiker äußern sich empört. Auch in Saudi-Arabien wird die Recherche #BlackSitesTurkey…

Washing hangs from the balconies of an unassuming apartment block on Irodotou street in Heraklion, the capital of Crete. Outside, children ride bikes and old men play cards in a coffee shop. But before May this year, this building looked rather different. A sign hung outside reading: “Golden Dawn,…

Yesterday, Quora announced that 100 million user accounts were compromised, including private activity like downvotes and direct messages, by a “malicious third party.” Data breaches are a frustrating part of the lifecycle of every online service — as they grow in popularity, they become a bigger…

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Jen Hyde | Longreads | November 2018 | 22 minutes (6,055 words) The women sit on stools behind four glass partitions in rows of 50, their eyes pressed into the cold eyepieces of their microscopes, sewing bovine pericardium tissue to surgical steel with loops of polyester thread. I’m entranced by the…

The original design for the water bed by Charles Hall.Credit...via Charles Hall domains The inventor of the water bed is reprising and updating it for a Casper world. The original design for the water bed by Charles Hall.Credit...via Charles Hall By Dec. 6, 2018 He used Jell-O and cornstarch at…

What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take…

I made this robot to make light painting animations. Each of the animations I made took between 4 and 12 hours to shoot, one frame at a time. Each frame is 1-3 long exposure photographs of the machine performing the light painting. some docutation: https://github.com/Defaultio/LightPaintingMachine…

Diese Szenen sind erschütternd: Neonazis unter sich auf Konzerten, mit brutalen Liedern und gnadenlosen Ansagen. Seit vielen Jahren dokumentiert der Journalist Thomas Kuban das Treiben der rechten Szene. Er deckt auf, wie normal Hitlergrüße und Lieder mit verbotenen Inhalten auf diesen Konzerten…

Never underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and big data, and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex, the young Kazakhstani scientist Alexandra Elbakyan has done to the multibillion-dollar industry that traps knowledge behind…

Teil 1: Er kommt am Abend Teil 2: Im Schatten der Kirschtomaten Teil 3: Nur eine Nummer Diese Recherche ist eine Kooperation mit dem RTL Nachtjournal und BuzzFeed News. Es ist November 2016, im dunklen Büro der Gewerkschafterin Maria Viniero in der kleinen Stadt San Michele in der süditalienischen…

11-year-old Marshall Gehrke already has his sights on the X-Games and Olympics. COMMENT with a sport you want to see on No Days Off next! MORE No Days Off → Homeless Shelter to Jr. Olympics: http://bit.ly/NoDaysOffS2E1 → 11-Year-Old Boxing Prodigy: http://bit.ly/2JcvoKp → 8 & 10-Year-Old Table…

Teil 1: Er kommt am Abend Teil 2: Im Schatten der Kirschtomaten Teil 3: Nur eine Nummer Diese Recherche ist eine Kooperation mit dem RTL Nachtjournal und BuzzFeed News. Die Stadt Ait Aimera ist das Herz und der Motor des landwirtschaftlichen Booms der Region Souss-Massa im Süden des Landes. Vier…

Teil 1: „Er kommt am Abend“ Teil 2: Im Schatten der Kirschtomaten Teil 3: Nur eine Nummer Diese Recherche ist eine Kooperation mit dem RTL Nachtjournal und BuzzFeed News. Es ist der 3. Mai 2017 in einem Café in der südspanischen Stadt Palos de la Frontera, als Kalima eine Entscheidung trifft, die…

Read the English version of this article here Dieser Text ist Teil unserer Serie "Heimatmysterium". Hier suchen wir nach dem, was Menschen in Deutschland verbindet – Religion, Beruf, Hobby, Herkunft oder Lebenssituation. Dem, was deutsche Heimaten ausmacht. © ZEIT ONLINE Jemand schlägt mit einem…

Music Twenty-five years after the historic performance that became the band’s best-selling final album, we talked to producers, directors, musicians, and fans present for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s greatest performance MusicTwenty-five years after the historic performance that became the band’s…

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In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle game called Tetris. It soon gained a cult following within the Soviet Union. A battle for the rights to publish Tetris erupted when the game crossed the Iron Curtain. Tetris not only took the…

In April 2008, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dispatched Justice Ministry officials to visit counterparts in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen. Their mission, according to a member of th

A m 13. September 2017, einem Mittwoch, bekommt André S. in Sindelfingen Besuch vom Geheimdienst der Bundeswehr. Mal wieder. S. ist Soldat beim Kommando Spezialkräfte in Baden-Württemberg. Er gehört zu den am besten ausgebildeten Soldaten der Bundeswehr, ein Elitekämpfer. Der Mann, der ihn besucht,…

Der AfD-Chef sprach klar wie selten. „Wer Nazischweinkram teilt, hat in der Partei nichts verloren“, rief Alexander Gauland am 13. Oktober dem Landesparteitag der AfD in Thüringen zu. Jörg Meuthen, der zweite Parteichef, äußerte sich tags darauf ähnlich. Anne Will hatte ihn in ihrer Talkshow…

I first learned about Douglas Prasher three years ago, when an algorithm we’d just developed made an unpredictable prediction: He should have been a recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Instead, the award had been given to three other…

When Martin Kunze was 13, he was on vacation with his parents in Spain, and at a beach next to the Mediterranean, did what kids sometimes do out of curiosity and boredom while their parents apply sunscreen and read and kibitz about the other tourists: He started digging a hole in the sand. The…