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Ukraine crisis: Lavrov warns over Russia 'regime change' goal. 22 November 2014Last updated at 13:09 ET Analysts say Western sanctions are beginning to have an impact on Russia Western sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine are aimed at forcing regime change in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

Ukraine crisis: Lavrov warns over Russia 'regime change' goal

Speaking to foreign policy advisers in Moscow, Mr Lavrov referred to calls for sanctions "that will destroy the economy and cause public protests". On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin said Moscow must guard against a "colour revolution". America Has A College Dropout Problem. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images America's nagging problem with college dropouts managed to get the tiniest bit worse this year.

America Has A College Dropout Problem

The National Student Clearinghouse reports that 55 percent of first-time undergraduates who matriculated in the fall of 2008 finished a degree within six years, versus 56.1 percent of those who began in fall 2007. Keep in mind, we already had the lowest college completion rate in the developed world, at least among the 18 countries tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Much like American health care, American higher education continues to set a global standard for inefficiency. Jordan Weissmann is Slate's senior business and economics correspondent. Scientists Demonstrate Brain-to-Brain Communication. Two scientific teams this year patched together some well-known technologies to directly exchange information between human brains.

Scientists Demonstrate Brain-to-Brain Communication

The projects, in the U.S. and Europe, appear to represent the first occasions in history that any two people have transmitted information without either of them speaking or moving any muscle. For now, however, the “telepathy” technology remains so crude that it’s unlikely to have any practical impact. In a paper published last week in the journal PLOS One, neuroscientists and computer engineers at the University of Washington in Seattle described a brain-to-brain interface they built that lets two people coöperatively play a simple video game. Pure Storage President David Hatfield: We Beat EMC 75 Percent Of The Time. EMC is the 800-pound gorilla in the storage space with a market cap over $60 billion.

Pure Storage President David Hatfield: We Beat EMC 75 Percent Of The Time

But every incumbent gets disrupted by a new startup at some point, and EMC has plenty of young, hungry companies nipping at its heels. One of them is Pure Storage, a five-year-old company that has raised over $470 million at a roughly $3 billion valuation. 4q5QeLI. 15633150207_6bdd8a1dfc_k.jpg (JPEG Image, 2048 × 1284 pixels) - Scaled (50%) PleasedThisCheetah.gif (GIF Image, 600 × 338 pixels) Reese Currie's answer to How do programmers deal with their job when they are old? Google came up with a formula for deciding who gets promoted—here’s what happened. About 7 years ago, Google founded its People Analytics team, which collects and uses data to bolster the company’s own management practices.

Google came up with a formula for deciding who gets promoted—here’s what happened

(You can thank this group for the death of Google’s infamous brain-teaser interview questions.) The group had a simple founding mission, according to Google’s executive Prasad Setty, who gave a talk at Google’s re:Work conference in October, at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. “All people decisions at Google should be be based on data and analytics,” he said. iDdHNOQ. Sleep's Link To Learning And Memory Traced To Brain Chemistry. Sleep well, young lad, so we can hear you tell us all the details in the morning.

Sleep's Link To Learning And Memory Traced To Brain Chemistry

G. Lynn Sumner Co. Senate Republicans block landmark NSA surveillance reform bill. Nearly 18 months after Edward Snowden’s disclosures upended the secret world of US surveillance, the US Senate has rejected the most politically viable effort to rein in the National Security Agency in almost four decades.

Senate Republicans block landmark NSA surveillance reform bill

The USA Freedom Act, a bill introduced last year that sought to end the NSA’s ongoing daily collection of practically all US phone data, failed to reach a 60-vote threshold to cut off debate and move to passage. Senators, mostly Republicans warning of leaving the country exposed to another terrorist attack, voted to beat back the bill, which had been warily backed by the Obama administration, technology giants and most civil libertarian groups.

10 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln. This fall, Hollywood threw its support behind Honest Abe.

10 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln

With the release of the new biopic “Lincoln,” America’s 16th president is now a box office draw. As Steven Spielberg’s film hits the big screen, explore 10 things you may not know about Abraham Lincoln. 1. Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. The Great Emancipator wasn’t quite WWE material, but thanks to his long limbs he was an accomplished wrestler as a young man.

Businesses turn to 3-D printing to shorten R&D time. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Three-dimensional printing sounds like science fiction, but it's being applied to some old-fashioned trades, such as wood carving at Knickerbocker Bench in Congers.

Businesses turn to 3-D printing to shorten R&D time

"Once I came up with that basic design, I wanted to see what it was like if I changed angles," said Tim Englert of Knickerbocker Bench, which designed wood furniture at Congers Lake Memorial Park. "To do that in wood, even in miniature, is very time-consuming. "Working in 3-D allows you to quickly explore your ideas.

" Throughout the Lower Hudson Valley, businesses are starting to use 3-D printing to shorten their research, development, patenting and production times, saving money in the process and bringing new products to market more quickly. China employs two million microblog monitors state media say. 4 October 2013Last updated at 12:46 ET Sina Weibo, launched in 2010, has more than 500 million registered users with 100 million messages posted daily More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet.

China employs two million microblog monitors state media say

The Beijing News says the monitors, described as internet opinion analysts, are on state and commercial payrolls. China's hundreds of millions of web users increasingly use microblogs to criticise the state or vent anger. Recent research suggested Chinese censors actively target social media. PLA Unit 61398. History[edit] On 19 May 2014 the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Federal grand jury had returned an indictment of five 61398 officers on charges of theft of confidential business information and intellectual property from U.S. commercial firms and of planting malware on their computers.[4][5] The five are Huang Zhenyu (黄振宇), Wen Xinyu (文新宇), Sun Kailiang (孙凯亮), Gu Chunhui (顾春晖), and Wang Dong (王东).

Forensic evidence traces the base of operations to a 12-story building off Datong Road in a public, mixed-use area of Pudong in Shanghai.[2] The group is also known by various other names including "Advanced Persistent Threat 1" ("APT1"), "the Comment group" and "Byzantine Candor", a codename given by US intelligence agencies since 2002.[6][7][8][9] The attacks documented in the summer of 2011 represent a fragment of the Comment group's attacks, which go back at least to 2002, according to incident reports and investigators. Automation Makes Us Dumb. Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospice. 22 November 2014Last updated at 19:04 ET By Daniel Silas Adamson Jerusalem There is a little corner of Jerusalem that is forever India. At least, it has been for more than 800 years and its current custodian has plans for his family to keep the Indian flag flying for generations to come.

Around the year 1200, little more than a decade after the armies of Saladin had forced the Crusaders out of the city, an Indian dervish walked into Jerusalem. Hazrat Farid ud-Din Ganj Shakar (or Baba Farid, as he is better known) belonged to the Chisti order of Sufis, a mystical brotherhood that still flourishes today across India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Later accounts of his life said that he spent his days sweeping the stone floors around al-Aqsa mosque, or fasting in the silence of a cave inside the city walls.

Asshole CEOs, startup founders and success. Flickr/FortuneLiveMediaUber CEO Travis Kalanick There's a notion that some people become successful company founders because they have the right "Startup DNA. " The DNA is comprised of characteristics like "resilience" and "ability to accept risk. " Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools. Last August, at Defcon, the hacker conference in As quiet descended over an eager audience of hundreds of hackers, Ossmann stopped and issued a warning. “If you don't want to hear about leaked classified information, you can leave now,” he told the crowd. LittleBits' Smart Home Kit Makes Home Automation Easy.

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