Among the many things we humans like to lord over the rest of the animal kingdom is our complex language. Sure, other creatures talk to one another, but we’ve got all these wildly complicated written languages with syntax and fun words like defenestrate. This we can also lord over robots, who, in addition to lacking […]
Read MoreMakalu is the world's fifth highest mountain—an icy giant 14 miles west of Everest that straddles the border of northeastern Nepal and Tibet. Its four sharp ridges ascend almost vertically toward a 27,765-foot summit that's formidable to even the most experienced climbers. Since 1955, there have been fewer than 300 recorded attempts to scale it, […]
Read MoreHere are a couple of relatively safe bets you can make right now about the European parliamentary elections that commenced yesterday and will continue through the weekend. One is that nationalist, populist, far-right parties will surge, winning up to a third of the seats in the contest. The other is that Steve Bannon—Donald Trump’s erstwhile […]
Read MoreYou're using strong and unique passwords. You're on the lookout for phishing emails. And you've set up two-factor authentication on every account that offers it. Basically, you're acing Personal Cybersecurity 101. But with new threats popping up all the time, you may be looking for other proactive steps you can take to protect yourself. Here's […]
Read MoreMany forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. —Winston Churchill […]
Read MoreFierce storms lashed across the central US this week, unleashing hundreds of powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through parts of Missouri and Oklahoma Wednesday night, and left at least three dead. While the worst of the violent winds has passed, the region is now bracing for massive flooding, following record amounts of […]
Read MoreTornadoes are tearing up the Midwest, Airbnb calls truce, and we've got some books for your long weekend. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Today's Headlines Tornadoes are tearing up the midwest. So why are they so hard to predict? More than 200 tornadoes have hit the Midwest in […]
Read MoreAfter surprising Super Bowl 2018 viewers with an ad announcing that sci-fi movie The Cloverfield Paradox would be arriving imminently, Netflix chose not to make a habit of similar ambushes. Instead, it left that practice to the musicians. Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Eminem, Death Grips, Drake, and Beyoncé again (this time as half of The Carters) […]
Read MoreAllan Kafley spent most of his childhood in a refugee camp in Nepal. His father told him about traveling through jungles, mountains, and forests in the family’s native country of Bhutan. “But those things were a fantasy because I was growing up in a refugee camp,” says Kafley. “I knew nothing about that.” Aarian Marshall […]
Read MoreIn the streets of New York, few things give you away as a tourist as obviously as tilting your head to take in the city’s upper limits. But when the red, yellow, and blue helicopter appeared in the skies over Manhattan’s southern tip, even the most jaded of native urbanites could be excused for risking […]
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