It drips on her head most days, says Champaben, but in the monsoon season it’s worse. In rain, worms multiply. Every day, nonetheless, she gets up and walks to her owners’ house, and there she picks up their excrement with her bare hands or a piece of tin, scrapes it into a basket, puts the basket…

It’s hard for me to explain how I got into this situation and in many ways it’s embarrassing. My hope in sharing my story is that someone can learn from it. The first time it felt real I had been waiting for about 3 hours before I started to really get worried. I had told everyone else that I’d be…

»Option?«, fragte die Maschine. Sie war startklar. Shigeru Kondo gab die Ziffer 0 ein, das Signal. Es war der 10. Oktober 2010, die Systemzeit zeigte 10:33:45 Uhr. »Beginne Berechnung«, antwortete die Maschine. Sie war nackt, kein Gehäuse schirmte ihre Komponenten. Sie war von Ventilatoren umstellt,…

Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver, he threw the car into reverse and sped off, striking me and running over my right foot as I fell to the ground.…

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Biz & IT How I became a password cracker Cracking passwords is officially a “script kiddie” activity now. Nate Anderson – Mar 24, 2013 7:55 pm | 240 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning…

Amid bank bailouts and global recession, an unknown hacker operating under the false name Satoshi Nakamoto released an open-source code for a global, digital currency in January 2009. Running on a dec

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In 1995, sales of pagers were booming among Japan’s teenagers, and NTT Docomo’s decision to add the heart symbol to its Pocket Bell devices let high school kids across the country inject a new level of sentiment (and cuteness) into the millions of messages they were keying into telephones every day.…

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Tabu Suizid Jährlich nehmen sich laut WHO eine Million Menschen das Leben. Doch darüber gesprochen wird wenig, Suizid ist ein enormes gesellschaftliches Tabu. Saskia Jungnikl über den Tod ihres Vaters 22. März 2013, 12:21 Bild nicht mehr verfügbar. Mein Vater liegt unter einem Nussbaum, Wälder und…

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It was a hot, sunny Boston morning in July, 2033 - and suddenly - it was a freezing London evening in Feb 2013, and I had an excruciating headache. I have no clue what happened. No flash, no tunnel, no lights. It's like the last 20 years of my life just never happened. Except that I remember them.…

Oh sure they sold SOME. Ultimately Google Glass got used mostly by very specialized workers who typically operated in solitary and didn't have to interact with other humans. Of the general public, there were a few geeks, opportunistic future-seekers and silicon valley wannabes, who bought them to…

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GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between,

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There are a couple of things that worry me. One being zombies. But, I also worry about startups. Especially startups in the social media space. The funding for these companies is plentiful because there is a serious bubble, and the only people who are going to survive it are the wealthy idiots who…

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It's 9.30am on a Sunday, and the mood inside the school building in Bandung, Indonesia, is festive. Mothers in headscarves and bright lipstick chat and eat coconut cakes. Javanese music thumps from an assembly hall. There are 400 people crammed into the primary school's ground floor. It's hot, noisy…

When Bill Fong approaches the lane, 15-pound bowling ball in hand, he tries not to breathe. He tries not to think about not breathing. He wants his body to perform a series of complex movements that his muscles themselves have memorized. In short, he wants to become a robot. Fong, 48 years old, 6…

I was one of those Olympics gloomsters who, as Boris Johnson gleefully pointed out when the Games had finished, were scattered and routed by the rip-roaring success of London 2012. I assumed something would go wrong; everything went right. I thought people would complain about the cost; no one seems…

Some years ago, I found myself, to my surprise, the victim of a campaign of malicious e-mail stalking and online defamation by a former M.F.A. student. Nasreen (all names here have been changed) was a talented writer, and she had an interesting story to tell about her family’s experiences in Iran at…

People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it a

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The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple’s Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite. "Who are you?" an Apple executive asked the assistant. “I am a humble personal assistant,” Siri answered to appreciative laughter. More like…