Ten scenes that show how music can elevate television. Five Best Language Translation Tools. If You're Sick Of The Bar Being Set Too High, Average Life Goals Is The Twitter Account For You. The Traffic Lights of Tomorrow Will Actively Manage Congestion. Drive your Model T through a major intersection a hundred years ago, and you'd likely encounter a policeman directing traffic. Ten years later, that officer would've been replaced by a traffic light. As the number of cars on the road increased, cities needed a way to keep cars from crashing into each other. With its dogmatic procession of green, yellow, and red, the automated traffic light did the trick. A few adjustments were made in the decades that followed, such as pedestrian-walk sensors, but the basic concept remained the same: Signals were for safety's sake.
But today's traffic engineers are starting to give the humble signal new responsibilities—programming them to not only react to the flow of traffic, but also to predict driver behavior. The signals of the not-so-distant future may help cities cut congestion without adding lanes or building new roads. The system is possible thanks to the state's superior infrastructure. Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture.
Actors in the TV series Star Trek (from left) Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock, William Shatner as Captain Kirk, DeForest Kelley as Doctor McCoy and James Doohan as Commander Scott. AP hide caption itoggle caption AP Actors in the TV series Star Trek (from left) Leonard Nimoy as Commander Spock, William Shatner as Captain Kirk, DeForest Kelley as Doctor McCoy and James Doohan as Commander Scott. "European society is very advanced, very civilized. Between holocausts. " The painter Barnett Newman is said to have replied along these lines to a friend who was bemoaning the sorry state of American political life and praising European social democracy. It's a good joke. Scientists, and cultural defenders of science, like to think of themselves as free of prejudice and superstition, as moved by reason alone and a clear-eyed commitment to fact and the scientific method.
To which one might reply: Science is all those things. Scientists supported Hitler the same as anyone else. Turning the tables on “Windows Support” scammers by compromising their PCs. Tech support scams are nothing new—we first went in-depth almost two years ago on "scareware scammers" who cold-call unsuspecting victims and try to talk them into compromising their computers by installing remote control applications and handing the keys over to the scammers. We even managed to engage with one for a protracted length of time, with deputy editor Nate Anderson playing the role of a computer neophyte and recording the entire mess. But one developer has taken things a step further, producing a tool that will enable you to fight back if targeted—if you don’t mind a bit of bad acting yourself.
Matt Weeks is one of the developers who contributes code to the open source Metasploit Project, a sprawling and continually updated security framework that functions as a repository for software vulnerabilities and is frequently used as a Swiss Army Knife for penetration testing. Gray hat Ammyy Admin doesn’t opt in to ASLR or DEP. The fruits of labor well spent. Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom. When it comes to choosing code names for their secret operations, American and British agents demonstrate a flare for creativity. Sometimes they borrow from Mother Nature, with monikers such as "Evil Olive" and "Egoistic Giraffe. " Other times, they would seem to take their guidance from Hollywood. A program called Treasure Map even has its own logo, a skull superimposed onto a compass, the eye holes glowing in demonic red, reminiscent of a movie poster for the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, starring Johnny Depp.
Treasure Map is anything but harmless entertainment. Rather, it is the mandate for a massive raid on the digital world. It aims to map the Internet, and not just the large traffic channels, such as telecommunications cables. It also seeks to identify the devices across which our data flows, so-called routers. Furthermore, every single end device that is connected to the Internet somewhere in the world -- every smartphone, tablet and computer -- is to be made visible. Pzw1rRC.gif (GIF Image, 300 × 225 pixels) Why Apple Pay could succeed where others have had underwhelming results. A couple of months ago I was visiting New York City and had to catch an early flight out of LaGuardia. At 4:30am I hailed a taxi on Houston Street and the driver and I sped to the airport over dark, empty streets. On the way, I found a Samsung Note 3 in my bag that Review Editor Ron Amadeo had sent me a few weeks before.
The thing had a Near-Field Communications (NFC) chip in it, and I had set up my Google Wallet account on it earlier. I also noticed that the taxi I was in had a tap-to-pay terminal displayed in the backseat. I am a consummate morning person, and a rush of new-day adrenaline told me that it was time to make my first Google Wallet purchase in three years—my last one occurring in 2011 when I reviewed the service at its debut for PCWorld. As we pulled up to the curb, the driver continued to ignore me as I got out my phone. “Maybe you should select Debit from the screen first,” he suggested. Google scouts the frontier, Apple leads in the wagon trains Fear factor. 3tFejNw. How to hire millennials—and weed out the bad ones - Quartz. Yes, I hear you complain about them every day: Those millennials, they ask about vacation time in the first interview! They get a bad cold and disappear for days! They want my job after a week in their job! “Who do these upstarts think they are,” you moan to me over every business lunch.
I feel your pain—but question your premise. Sure, there are tons of indolent slackers lounging in their parents’ rec rooms and some of them should stay there because they make terrible employees. But don’t dismiss the generation; just take some hiring and management precautions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Book-pages-painting.gif (GIF Image, 250 × 231 pixels) Envisioning Landscapes Of Our Very Distant Future : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. An aerial view of Posiva Oy's prospective nuclear waste repository site in Olkiluoto, Finland.
Posiva Oy hide caption itoggle caption Posiva Oy An aerial view of Posiva Oy's prospective nuclear waste repository site in Olkiluoto, Finland. Posiva Oy A few minutes before my flight to Helsinki touched down, I looked out the window at Finland's flat, snowy, forested landscape. It appeared still and serene. It was December 2011, and I was moving to Finland to conduct anthropological fieldwork among experts developing what might, in the early 2020s, become the world's first operational geological repository for high-level nuclear waste. As an anthropologist, my goal was to examine how these experts think about the future, how they conceive of the world around them, and how they relate to themselves and to their colleagues. To pursue these questions, I would live in Finland for more than two and a half years.
During my fieldwork, Posiva's Biosphere Assessment (BSA) project piqued my interest. News from The Associated Press. 11,000mi: Riding a motorcycle to the end of the world. The Virtual Moleskine - The New Yorker. The iconic Moleskine notebook features an elastic closure; a hard, thick, black cover; slightly rounded corners; a bookmark ribbon; and an expandable inner pocket with a booklet inside containing Moleskine’s history.
Inside the front cover, you can fill in your address after “In case of loss, please return to:” and you can value your notebook’s net worth by filling in “As a reward: $___.” I’ve known many Moleskine users, and in every notebook I’ve seen this page is blank. Maria Sebregondi, the founder of Moleskine, was born and raised in Italy. Her mother worked as an editor and a graphic designer. “I remember, when I was a child, having graphics around all the time,” she said. Sebregondi’s background is primarily in literature and publishing, but, she said, a “kind of visual sensibility was strong in my family.” 3D Printed Car. Angry Letters to the One Member of Congress Who Voted Against the War on Terror.
Barbara Lee was the lone dissenter in the post-9/11 vote authorizing military force. Many called her a traitor. But her constituents shared her concerns—and history has vindicated them. Enrique De La Osa/Reuters OAKLAND, Calif. —The people here were out of step with America. In the hours after the attacks of September 11, 2oo1, they were angry at the terrorists who flew planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center. The mistrust was mutual. "The middle part of the country—the great red zone that voted for Bush—is clearly ready for war," Andrew Sullivan wrote that week in a Sunday newspaper column. Barbara Lee began representing the East Bay in Congress on April 7, 1998. Lee was 55 on the morning of September 11, 2001. Like most Americans, she felt a powerful sense of national unity.
The final draft of the AUMF was just 60 words long: Lee anguished over how to vote. She explained her vote in remarks delivered on the House floor: They fill 12 file-storage boxes. Fighting ISIS, other terrorist groups under democracy’s rule of law. Singles now outnumber married people in America — and that's a good thing. Once upon a time in America, marriage was the norm for adults. But now, for the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking these numbers in 1976, there are more single Americans than people who are married. (This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview.) That is a huge change. About 50.2 percent — or 124.6 million American adults — are single. In 1950, that number was about 22 percent. “It’s actually probably easier to meet people now than ever before, if you think about all of the incredible technologies we have to connect,” says Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University and the author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.
In addition to holding out for a soul mate, Klinenberg says many people aren’t settling down with someone because of society’s changing culture. “I do think there’s a little bit of that paradox-of-choice problem,” he says. Bill Gurley: Silicon Valley Is Taking On Too Much Risk. Finance People To Follow On Twitter. Living the GoPro Life. Late one fall afternoon two years ago, Aaron Chase, a professional mountain biker, was riding his bike in the Smoky Mountains, near Sun Valley, Idaho. He’d powered up to a high-altitude ridge and was gazing, less than eagerly, at the trail down toward the backcountry yurt where he and two fellow pro riders were camped for the week. He wasn’t feeling well. He was tired, hungry, dehydrated, and a little woozy. In the argot, he was bonking.
He and the others, along with a professional photographer, had spent two days filming video footage of themselves hurtling down steep technical trails and executing tricks off natural features. They had brought along more than a dozen GoPros, the ubiquitous small digital point-of-view cameras. Chase, who is sponsored by GoPro and is exceptionally adept at using GoPro cameras to make videos, likes to use a camera mount called the 360 Narwhal, after the species of whale with a tusk protruding from its jaw. Trouble was, neither camera was rolling. Think sexism in tech is bad? It’s time for journalism to face its own diversity issues. By David Holmes On September 15, 2014 In recent months, news outlets have rightfully taken tech companies to task over their lack of racial and gender diversity.
Women make up only 10 percent of Twitter’s technology staff, 15 percent of Facebook’s, and 17 percent of Google’s, according to the companies’ self-published diversity reports, indicating there is indeed much room for improvement. But as much as journalists like to hold tech companies accountable for their lackluster diversity numbers (and they should), it’s time for the news industry to take a good hard look at its own hiring biases. According to the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, men occupy 73 percent of the top management jobs. That figure is only marginally better than the leadership demographics at Twitter (79 percent male), Facebook (77 percent male), and Google (79 percent male). Why do women leave? You might think that striking out on your own can help level the playing field.
World's first 3D-printed car: Futuristic vehicle is made in 44 hours. I am model Andreja Pejic, Ask Me Anything. : IAmA. Young/Old Swap. China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet | Rolling Stone. As the sun rises in mid-july over andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., Secretary of State John Kerry climbs quickly – he's positively bouncing – up the carpeted stairs of his blue-and-white governmentissue 757. Kerry is heading to Beijing to talk with Chinese leaders about, among other things, one of President Obama's top priorities in the waning days of his second term: the urgent need to reduce carbon pollution and limit the damage from climate change. But the rest of the world isn't cutting Kerry any slack right now – there's trouble with the elections in Afghanistan, rising conflict in the Middle East and upcoming negotiations with Iran on nuclear weapons. As he ducks into the plane, Kerry is already talking intensely on his cellphone, deeply wired into the global chaos.
An aide shoulders his bags as well as a large black case that contains his acoustic guitar, which he takes with him everywhere and often plays late at night when he's alone in his hotel room. Sapping Attention: Screen time! Here's a very fun, and for some purposes, perhaps, a very useful thing: a Bookworm browser that lets you investigate onscreen language in about 87,000 movies and TV shows, encompassing together over 600 million words.
(Go follow that link if you want to investigate yourself). I've been thinking about doing this for years, but some of the interest in my recent Simpsons browser and some leaps and bounds in the Bookworm platform have spurred me to finally lay it out. This comes from a very large collection of closed captions/subtitles from the website opensubtitles.org; thanks very much to them for providing a bulk download. Just as a set of line charts, this provides a nice window into changing language. I've been interested in the "need to"/"ought to" shift since I wrote about it in Mad Men: it's quite clear in the subtitle corpus, and the ratio is much higher as of 2014 than anything Ngrams can show. On the other hand, you know what's going down? There's all sorts of other metadata. Goldfish recovering after 'high-risk' tumour removal.
15 September 2014Last updated at 13:46 ET George the goldfish is now expected to live another 20 years A goldfish in Australia is recovering from surgery after a life-threatening tumour was removed from its brain in a "high-risk" operation. George, whose owner lives in Melbourne, was put under general anaesthetic for the $200 (£125) procedure. Dr Tristan Rich, who carried out the operation, told Melbourne's 3AW radio station that the fish was now "up and about and swimming around". Vets say the 10-year-old fish is now expected to live for another 20 years. "George had a quite large tumour on the top of his head that was growing slowly, and it was beginning to affect his quality of life," Dr Rich from the Lort Smith Animal Hospital said. George's owner was given the choice between an operation or having the fish put to sleep.
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My wife usually comes back from work by 7pm and plays fetch with the dogs. she is running late today :( Ready for a ride on a space elevator? Quantum Teleportation 25 Kilometers Away.