The Guardian revealed in January that Papa Massata Diack had appeared to arrange for “parcels” to be delivered to six IOC members in 2008 at a time when Qatar was bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games, though it failed to make it beyond the shortlisting stage. Qatar has denied any wrongdoing. The email went on to appear to suggest that six individuals, referred to only by initials but these correspon
Workers crying at their desks. Workers subjected to anonymous criticism. Workers put on performance reviews after a miscarriage or cancer. The office isn’t what it used to be – at Amazon, anyway. This week, the New York Times revealed extraordinary stories of management practices at the tech giant’s Seattle HQ, where the most pugnacious employees earn the nickname of “Amholes”. And yet, as extraor
After seven years and 109,000 tweets, @everyword, one of the internet's most beloved bots, is retiring. In 2007, computer programmer and poet Adam Parrish set out to tweet every word in the English language in alphabetical order, amassing 95,000 followers along the way. On Friday 6June, the project will finally be complete. To mark the end of an era (and the alphabet), Parrish tells the Guardian w
In August, the editor of the Guardian rang me up and asked if I would spend a week in New York, reading the GCHQ files whose UK copy the Guardian was forced to destroy. His suggestion was that it might be worthwhile to look at the material not from a perspective of making news but from that of a novelist with an interest in the way we live now. I took Alan Rusbridger up on his invitation, after an
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intel
What has happened where as rioting spreads across England. Click on a dot to get details, or zoom to see more events • Explore the data behind this map and discuss it • Animation: see how the riots spread • The riots mapped with poverty • Download this map as a KML file • Download it as a Google Fusion table • NEW: list of riot-related cases before the courts
They read like the most extraordinary revelations. Citing the WikiLeaks cables, major Pakistani newspapers this morning carried stories that purported to detail eye-popping American assessments of India's military and civilian leaders. According to the reports, US diplomats described senior Indian generals as vain, egotistical and genocidal; they said India's government is secretly allied with Hin
Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of south-east Asia. Though the language has been closely studied by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Sr spent the last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue. Even members of inter-related tribes were una
The idea that the "News for nerds" site at slashdot.org could be usurped by a technology news site that has only been around for about a year would have seemed laughable - a year ago. But in a blog post (tinyurl.com/axcl8) this week, Jeremy Zawodny, a respected engineer at Yahoo, noted that according to the Alexa traffic-tracking system, the number visiting digg.com is approaching that of Slashdot
Next week Steve Jobs of Apple will grab media attention with another simple-looking stage show. Mike Evangelist tells the insider secrets of his gruelling preparation If the chief executive of Cadbury-Schweppes speaks at a conference, or Nike's boss introduces a new kind of trainer, you might expect to see it covered in specialist magazines, then quickly forgotten. But on Tuesday a chief executive
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