The RAF has released footage of a drone being used to stop a public killing that was about to be staged by so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The BBC's Jonathan Beale visited the command centre in Qatar that is co-ordinating the campaign against IS.

Crick's lecture was said to have altered the logic of biology Sixty years ago this week, one of the greatest British scientists, Francis Crick, gave a lecture in London in which he accurately predicted how genes work, setting the course for the genetic revolution we are now living through. Here, evolutionary biologist Professor Matthew Cobb from Manchester University unpicks the predictions that s

The UK and US have reached a deal to develop a special relationship for science. An agreement between the two countries aims to make it easier for researchers to travel, collaborate and share facilities. US science bodies are said to be "eager" to take advantage of research opportunities lost because of Brexit.

The low-lying Caribbean islands inhabited by Panama's indigenous Guna people are threatened by rising sea levels and increasingly unpredictable weather. But unlike many island communities facing such problems, the Guna have an escape plan. The tiny port of Carti on the mainland of Panama is the jumping-off place for day trippers who come to swim, splash and snorkel around the idyllic-looking islan

The commonly used term for a grilled cheese sandwich in Quebec is 'grilled cheese' From grilled cheese to cocktails, drag queen and leggings, the French-language watchdog in the Canadian province of Quebec has relaxed its guidelines around some common "anglicisms". It's the Canadian province that made international headlines for "pastagate" - a fracas over the use of the word "pasta" on an Italian

Which works of fiction since 2000 will stand the test of time? BBC Culture polled several dozen critics to select the greatest.

Russia has aimed its entire media arsenal at the veteran Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman over his appearance in a video accusing the Kremlin of waging "war" on America during last year's presidential election. The video shows the Oscar winner accusing President Vladimir Putin, a "former KGB spy", of launching cyber attacks and spreading false information in order to avenge the collapse of the Sovie

Doves sit in cages hoisted on poles during a bird-singing contest in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat. Over 1,400 birds from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore took part in the annual contest.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time.

A highliner performs during the Highline Extreme event on the top of the Moleson peak at 2000 meters above the sea level, in the Swiss Alps, near Fribourg, Switzerland. 25 of the world best slackliners are competing until 17 September, on six different lines ranging from 45 metres to 350 metres. Balancing on the 'slackline' is a training method for climbers to improve their equilibrium sense. To a

YouTube has announced the end of paid channels, which were launched in 2013 as one of the site's first attempts at charging for content. The facility let people pay a monthly fee to access individual YouTube channels from providers such as National Geographic and Sesame Street.

Two people were hospitalized with serious injuries after a helicopter accidentally fired on bystanders at the Zapad 2017 military exercises, the online news portal 66.ru cited a source as saying on Tuesday. The week-long drills in Western Russia and neighboring Belarus kicked off last week, with around 13,000 troops, hundreds of tanks, aircraft, warships and other military hardware participating.

After Mexico's 7.1-magnitude quake, some buildings have collapsed while others, often right next door, remain standing. Why?

Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman is suffering from emotional stress, the Kremlin said on Wednesday in response to a campaign calling for an investigation into Russian interference into U.S. affairs. In a video shared online on Monday, Freeman said the United States was “at war” with Russia. The U.S. is carrying out three Congressional investigations and an independent special counsel probe into alle

Jump to navigation Steve Strange, the pop singer and flamboyant host of London's trailblazing New Romantic Blitz club, has died aged 55 after suffering a heart attack. Here, we take a look back at his life in pictures. Picture: Rex Features Credit: Rex Features Strange, 2nd right, with an early line-up of Visage outside the Blitz club in 1978. (L-R) Rusty Egan, John McGeogh, Barry Adamson, Billy C

Vacuuming and scrubbing the floor are both enough exercise to protect your heart and extend your life, a global study has shown. Scientists found that 30 minutes of activity per day, or 150 minutes per week, reduced the risk of death from any cause by 28 per cent and rates of heart disease by a fifth. But it was not necessary to run, swim, or work out in the gym, said the researchers writing in Th

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says his company will share 3,000 Russia-linked political adverts with US investigators.

The idea of plant-eating dinosaurs having a strict vegetarian diet has been called into question.

There has been "nearly zero progress" in tackling the lack of access to school in many of the world's poorest countries, a UN agency has said.

カリブ海にあるドミニカのルーズベルト・スケリット首相は21日、ハリケーン「マリア」による被害で少なくとも15人が死亡し、20人が行方不明になっていると発表した。

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The skeleton of a boy that shattered our view of Neanderthal brain development

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The fate of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the major world powers is in the balance. The deal, which came into effect in October 2015, (known by the cumbersome title of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), imposed constraints on Tehran's nuclear activities, in return for the lifting of some economic sanctions. It is easy to forget that the deal came about in an atmosphere where

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North Korean state media released this picture of Mr Kim delivering his statement Pyongyang's foreign minister has said the North is considering a nuclear test around the Pacific, after a personal statement from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to US President Donald Trump. Analyst Ankit Panda decodes this unprecedented statement - and what the Pacific threat could actually mean.

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On Friday the English-speaking world was startled to find itself suddenly reacquainted with the 14th-Century term "dotard", thanks to an unlikely source - Kim Jong-un. The North Korean leader used the ancient word to describe Donald Trump several times in a fiery statement denouncing the US President's recent UN speech.

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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are trading insults after the US president's UN speech Kim Jong-un has said remarks by "deranged" US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal statement, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would "pay dearly" for a UN speech where he threatened to "totally destroy" the North if the US was forced to defend it

Sign up here to receive FT Health every Friday by email. Lack of sleep, excessive stress, unhealthy diets, insufficient exercise: evidence is growing of the factors which affect individuals' physical and mental wellbeing. As the FT's Health at Work report shows, risky behaviour or ill health affects corporate productivity through employee absenteeism and "presenteeism" — when they turn up to work,

国連安全保障理事会は21日、過激派組織のいわゆる「イスラム国」（IS）によるイラクの少数派ヤジディ教徒への戦争犯罪の証拠集めなどを行う捜査チームの設置を承認した。安保理は英国がまとめた決議案を全会一致で採択した。 ヤジディ教徒でISに拉致され拷問されたナディア・ムラドさん（24）さんと、ムラドさんの弁護活動を過去1年にわたって行ってきた国際人権弁護士のアマル・クルーニーさんにインタビューした。

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画像説明, 子供たちがまだ閉じ込められているとみられているエンリケ・レブサメン小学校で救助にあたる人々 メキシコ中部で起きたマグニチュード（M）7.1の大地震から3日目となった21日、倒壊した建物に閉じ込められた人々の救助活動は時間との戦いになっている。

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米南部テネシー州で、車庫のシャッターの下敷きになり体が切断された男性がいるとの警察への通報が相次いだ。しかし、切断された体だとみられたものは、ハロウィーンとしては気の早い、怖ろしくリアルな飾りであることが判明した。

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Drivers and passengers react to news that Uber's licence in London will be revoked Uber will not be issued a new private hire licence, Transport for London (TfL) has said. TfL concluded the ride-hailing app firm was not fit and proper to hold a London private hire operator licence.

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The Topos helped rescue people after an earthquake earlier in September, as well as this week They were formed spontaneously in response to a huge earthquake in 1985. Since then, Mexican volunteer rescuers known as the Topos - Moles - have helped in earthquakes from Iran to Nepal. Now, they are needed back at home. The devastating 1985 earthquake struck on 19 September, the very same day as the on

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The yen edged up 0.3% against the dollar on Friday after North Korea suggested it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. It is not unusual for Japan's currency to climb during a crisis, as investors seek a safe haven until risks ease.

Ex-porn actor German spy guilty of trying to share state secrets Berlin (AFP) – A former German intelligence agent who was also an ex-gay porn actor was Tuesday given a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to share state secrets while pretending to be a jihadist online. The 52-year-old named as Roque M., made headlines when he was arrested last November in what initially appeared to be a cas

Against rising headwinds, UK pushes ahead with nuclear projects London (AFP) – Under pressure from Brexit and the declining costs of renewable energy, Britain's nuclear industry is increasingly relying on supportive government policy to plough on with high-profile -- and controversial -- projects. With four big projects due for completion by 2025, the country is at the forefront of a global indust

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はてなブックマークでは、先日リニューアルしたWeb版（PC、スマートフォンとも）のコメント一覧ページ（エントリーページ）について以下の追加修正を行いました。 ブックマークしたすべてのユーザーの一覧を、サイドバーの「詳しく見る」から確認できるようにしました 記事に付けたブックマークを編集・削除するときのUIを変更しました 記事に付けられたはてなスターを、サイドバーにある記事の概要欄で表示・追加できるようにしました お気に入りに追加しているユーザーのアイコン（タイトル下に表示されます）にマウスを重ねると、コメントやタグをバルーン表示で確認できるようにしました IE 11で、コメント一覧がすべて表示されないことがある不具合を修正しました はてなブックマークでは現在、システム全体について抜本的なリニューアルに向けた開発を進めており、コメント一覧ページのリニューアルに際しては一部の機能等を整理しつつ

北朝鮮のキム・ジョンウン（金正恩）朝鮮労働党委員長が、アメリカのトランプ大統領の国連総会での演説を非難する声明で言及した「史上最高の超強硬な対応措置」について、ニューヨークを訪れているリ・ヨンホ外相は「私の考えでは、おそらく水爆の実験を太平洋上で行うことになるのではないかと思う」と述べ、トランプ政権を強く威嚇しました。 これについて国連総会に出席するためニューヨークを訪れているリ・ヨンホ外相は２１日「対応措置とは何を意味するのか」という記者団の問いかけに対し「どのような措置が取られるかはよくわからないが、私の考えではおそらく水爆の実験を太平洋上で行うことになるのではないかと思う」と述べ、トランプ政権を強く威嚇しました。

大手広告会社「電通」が社員に違法な残業をさせた罪に問われている事件の初公判で、検察は、法人としての電通に罰金５０万円を求刑しました。

離れた物質の間を情報が瞬間移動する「量子テレポーテーション」と呼ばれる現象を利用して、現代のスーパーコンピューターをはるかにしのぐ新型の量子コンピューターの基本原理の開発に成功したと東京大学の研究チームが発表しました。 量子コンピューターをめぐっては、ＮＡＳＡやグーグルが別の原理で作られたカナダのベンチャー企業の実用化モデルを購入し研究を進めていますが、研究チームは今回の基本原理を使えばこれを大きく上回る性能の究極の量子コンピューターを生み出せるとしています。 研究チームは、２つの離れた物質の間で情報が光の速度で瞬間移動する「量子テレポーテーション」と呼ばれる現象に注目しました。 この現象は量子と呼ばれる光の粒など極めて小さな世界で起きるもので、アインシュタインはこれを引き起こすものを「奇妙な遠隔作用」と呼んでいました。 例えば光の粒を人工的に２つに分けて離れた位置に置き、一方に２、もう一

Amazonが「よく一緒に購入されている商品」機能を通して、爆弾の製造に必要な原材料を購入しやすくしていた可能性があると英国のテレビ局が報じた。これを受けて、Amazonは米国時間9月20日、自社のウェブサイトを見直すと述べた。 Channel 4 Newsの報道によると、Amazonのサイトは、原始的な爆弾の製造に必要な原材料の組み合わせを一緒に購入するようユーザーに勧めるという。例えば、Amazonは爆弾製造に使われる可能性のある原材料のページで、ボールベアリングの購入を勧めたという。 これらの製品は全て合法的に購入可能のようで、通常は家庭での用途に使われる。 大手テクノロジ企業はよりパーソナライズされた、またはより有用な情報を提供するため、自動化された（しかし、時に欠陥のある）アルゴリズムを利用して、サイトの一部を運用している。今回の一件は、それが原因で生じる問題を浮き彫りにするもの

父親が認知症、もしくは統合失調症になったかもしれない。 父親は69歳で、教職を続けて定年を迎えてからも再雇用されて非常勤として今年の春くらいまで働いていたのだけど、...

Sometimes, when lost for the right phrase, even the most eloquent can resort to profanity, and author Stephen King—a man not unfamiliar with four-letter words—did just that in reponse to President Trump's most recent tweet about Hillary Clinton. The Shining author was reacting to a GIF the president retweeted Sunday morning, showing him hitting a golf ball at his 2016 presidential rival and knocki

Hurricane Maria was upgraded to Category 5 strength on Monday evening and was described as a "potentially catastrophic" storm by the National Hurricane Center as it heads toward Dominica and Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency for Puerto Rico, making the U.S. territory eligible for federal assistance if it's damaged by the storm. Trump also did so for the U.S. Virgin

The Georgia Tech police officer who shot and killed emotionally disturbed, knife-toting student Scout Schultz last week had not undergone a routine state training program aimed at nonviolently defusing situations with individuals in crisis. Officer Tyler Beck graduated from the police academy and began his first law enforcement job at the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2016. But he had sti

A walk along Texas City beach took an unexpected turn for Preeti Desai when she stumbled over a creature that normally swims well below the surface washed ashore during Hurricane Harvey. Desai posted a picture of the fanged sea creature on Twitter in the hope that someone could identify it: "Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beach in Texas City, TX," she wrote on September

Published Sep 20, 2017 at 3:57 PM EDT Updated Sep 20, 2017 at 5:26 PM EDT The director of the Japan Meteorological Agency's earthquake and tsunami observations division, Toshiyuki Matsumori, speaks next to a monitor showing graphs of ground motion waveform data observed in Japan during a news conference at the... More REUTERS A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the northeast coast of Japan, just 200 mi

Trump Administration is Killing Silicon Valley With Policies on Trade, Immigration and Investment Scenes of daily work and life at Facebook , Inc. USA Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. View of employees at work in a typical unfinished looking workspace. Kim Kulish/Corbis/Getty Images If you want an ominous warning about the impact of the Trump era on Silicon Valley, look at a former American

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer, poses at his home in 2015 near Moscow. In 1983, he was on duty when the Soviet Union's early warning satellite indicated the U.S. had fired nuclear weapons at his country. He suspected, correctly, it was a false alarm and did not immediately send the report up the chain of command. Petrov died at age 77. Pavel Golovkin/AP Stanislav Petrov was a l

Who Controls Think Tanks? Shift In Funding Highlights Changes In The Industry Increasingly, wealthy business people are funding think tanks. As one political scientist notes, they tend to "want to know exactly what they're getting for their dollars' worth."

How The CIA Found A Soviet Sub — Without The Soviets Knowing : Parallels It's a great tale of Cold War intrigue that includes eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, a CIA covert operation and a Soviet sub with nuclear missiles that sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

With a $20 ice cream maker and a hunger for a more healthful indulgence, Los Angeles lawyer Justin Woolverton concocted a dessert that quickly developed a cult-like following. A few years later, his line of light ice cream, called Halo Top, has exploded into surprising market dominance. Halo Top recently bested stalwarts Ben & Jerry’s and Haagen-Dazs for the top sales spot in its niche — grocery s

Susan Samueli caught a cold while visiting France more than three decades ago. Instead of the usual medicines, a friend suggested aconite, a homeopathic remedy derived from a plant in the buttercup family. She was cured — and became a lifelong advocate of homeopathy and other alternative healing methods to complement conventional medicine. Her husband, Henry — the billionaire co-founder of Broadco

U.N. General Assembly live updates: Iran unveils new missile and vows to defend itself The annual U.N. General Assembly has generated sometimes powerful comments by world leaders on issues involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and the flight of minority Muslims from Myanmar as more than 100 heads of state and government gather in New York. What’s happening: Yemen is a humanitarian catastrophe:

Reporting from SEOUL —  The sound of silverware scraping plates reverberates through the Costco cafe, competing with the chatter of customers. It is the sound of scooping onions. Chopped onions are being scooped onto hot dogs, onto baked bulgogi sandwiches — and directly into people’s mouths, along with healthy dollops of mustard and ketchup. One aficionado calls it “onion salading.” The menus ins

Reporting from WASHINGTON —  Responding to mounting pressure to reveal details about Russian-paid propaganda on its platform, Facebook said it would share more than 3,000 ads linked to Russia with congressional panels investigating foreign meddling in the 2016 election. The move announced Thursday is a reversal for Facebook, which previously only showed staffers on Capitol Hill snippets of the ads

Philip Morris Pledges Almost $1 Billion to Anti-Smoking Fight Marlboro-maker Philip Morris International (PMI), which is trying to kick the cigarette habit in favor of “smoke-free” alternatives, has pledged almost $1 billion to the fight against traditional burn-based smoking. Philip Morris (PM) said Wednesday that it would contribute around $80 million each year, for the next 12 years, to a new n

SEC Hack Possibly Used for Insider Trading Rattles Wall Street Wall Street’s top regulator faced questions on Thursday about its defenses against cyber criminals after admitting hackers breached its electronic database of corporate announcements and may have used it for insider trading. The incursion at the Securities and Exchange Commission struck at the heart of the U.S. financial system. The SE

Will New Zealand remain a green and pleasant land?Voters worry for their country’s pristine reputation OVER the rubbery chicken at your next tourism symposium, challenge fellow delegates to name the world’s longest-running national tourism slogan. The answer—it was on the tip of your tongue—is “100% pure New Zealand”, Tourism New Zealand’s catchphrase since 1999. Why mess with a good thing? The no

Venezuela’s war on cutenessThe government tries to sell its hungry citizens on the nutritional benefits of rabbit VENEZUELA has a hunger crisis, with 12% of children suffering from acute malnutrition. But the country’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, has a cunning plan. Under Plan Conejo (Plan Rabbit), poor settlements are to receive cages containing baby rabbits which, when fattened up, will

China’s leaders don’t trust North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un—but they trust President Trump even less.Photograph by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty At the center of the North Korean nuclear crisis is a pivotal question: How much is China really willing to pressure and punish its longtime ally in Pyongyang? Recent conversations in Beijing and Washington suggest that Chinese leaders have decided to increa

There is meddling in Germany's election — not by Russia, but by U.S. right wing An alliance of mostly anonymous online trolls and extremist agitators meddled in Germany's election, but researchers said Russians mostly weren't to blame. Instead, they said, right-wing groups in the United States were behind materials popping up on YouTube, messaging board sites like 4chan and reddit and texting serv

Gender stereotypes are destroying girls, and they're killing boys It doesn't matter where in the world you live. Lessons about gender start early, and they have lifelong consequences. A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found many norms around gender, what's expected of boys and girls, become entrenched in adolescence and have negative impacts that carry into adulthood. We knew some of

ISIS 'caliphate' near collapse as most of Raqqa taken by U.S.-backed forces The end for the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate is near, three years after the terrorist group announced its vision for creating a nation state across Iraq, Syria and the wider region. U.S.-backed forces are on the verge of capturing the group's home base, Raqqa, Syria, the last major city it still holds. A U.S.-

A photo of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reacting to President Donald Trump‘s menacing United Nations address on Tuesday has gone viral. The photo, taken by Mary Altaffer of the Associated Press, shows Trump’s homeland security secretary turned chief of staff holding his face in his hand while listening to his boss, with First Lady Melania Trump seated in front of him. The photo quickly ma

WorldJapan‘This Is All We Can Do’: How the Japanese Are Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack ‘This Is All We Can Do’: How the Japanese Are Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack The wail of the emergency siren reverberates across the school’s playing field, conjuring a primal fear even before the words “Missile launched! Missile launched!” crackle over the loudspeaker. Two dozen men, w

Facebook Will Give Congress Thousands of Ads Bought by Russian Agency (NEW YORK) — Facebook says the company will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators. The move Thursday comes as the company has faced growing pressure from members of Congress to release the content of the ads. Facebook had already released the ads to federal authorities invest

Google announced on Thursday that it would pay $1.1 billion to acquire certain employees from the Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC. The maneuver is a big play by Google to make its Pixel smartphone a more formidable opponent to Apple’s iPhone. Although Google controls the software that’s distributed on more than 2 billion Android phones worldwide, it doesn’t have much influence on how the actual dev

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The Catalan President has accused the Spanish government of imposing a “de facto state of emergency” after national police arrested several senior regional officials in an effort to halt a disputed independence referendum. Carles Puigdemont said Catalonia had been the “target of a coordinated aggression by the Spanish government’s Interior Ministry”, hours after police raided a number of Catalan r

Google has quietly stopped challenging most search warrants from US judges in which the data requested is stored on overseas servers, according to the Justice Department. The revelation, contained in a new court filing to the Supreme Court, comes as the administration of President Donald Trump is pressing the justices to declare that US search warrants served on the US tech sector extend to data s

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Uber is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit that says it secretly over charges riders and under pays drivers. In its defense, the ride-hailing service claims that nobody is being defrauded in its "upfront" rider fare pricing model. The fares charged to riders don't have to match up with the fares paid to drivers, Uber said, because that's what a driver's "agreement" allows. "Plaintiff's alleg

In 1996, near the end of the Golden Age of arcade fighting games, Capcom released X-Men vs Street Fighter. Featuring 17 characters taken from both the Street Fighter and X-Men universe, the game was like a schoolyard argument come to life: "Who would win in a fight, Akuma or Wolverine?" The Street Fighter formula was tweaked to include tag-team character battles, super jumps, over-the-top full-scr

T-Mobile USA last week said it would throttle Apple Watch cellular data speeds to 512kbps unless customers paid double the normal $10-per-month service charge, but it quickly backtracked after criticism from customers. As reported by MacRumors on Friday, T-Mobile was advertising "unlimited talk, text, and data at 512kbps on your smartwatch" for $10 a month. The speed limitation was "noted on the p

There's a bug in the widely used Apache Web Server that causes servers to leak pieces of arbitrary memory in a way that could expose passwords or other secrets, a freelance journalist has disclosed. The vulnerability can be triggered by querying a server with what's known as an OPTIONS request. Like the better-known GET and POST requests, OPTIONS is a type of HTTP method that allows users to deter

This weekend, Switch owners learned their consoles are apparently holding a hidden copy of the NES game Golf, along with a built-in NES emulator designed to run it. But Switch hacker yellows8 and others who have been able to run that emulator say they've only been able to do so via "unofficial" methods that let them run jailbroken Switch binaries independently. Now that the emulator is widely know

Enlarge / A beach on Mornington Peninsula, a hotbed for the mysterious disease. In the last year, cases of a ghastly but mysterious flesh-eating bacterial infection have more than doubled in Victoria, Australia, raising alarm among health experts. There were 239 cases of the flesh-eating infections in the past 12 months, according to figures (PDF) released this week by health authorities. In 2016,

Enlarge / Typically, Myrtle Beach is quite picturesque—as evidenced by this early morning view toward the end of the Cherry Grove fishing pier. Authorities and vacationers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, are waiting anxiously for more information on a case of flesh-eating bacteria that struck a Lumberton, North Carolina, grandmother who had been staying in the area last week. Family of the woman,

A software package update for a Windows utility product distributed by antivirus vendor Avast has been spreading an unsavory surprise: a malware package that could allow affected computers to be remotely accessed or controlled with what appears to be a legitimate signing certificate. The malware, which was distributed through the update server for the Windows cleanup utility CCleaner, was apparent

Thanks to CRISPR, scientists are studying animal evolution in ways that were previously thought to be impossible. The wings on the left belong to a normal Gulf fritillary butterfly, and the ones of the right belong to one whose optix gene has been deleted. (Robert Reed) When the butterfly emerged from its pupa, Robert Reed was stunned. It was a Gulf fritillary—a bright-orange species with a few ti

The next generation of commerce is arriving, and with it are a slew of new startup brands that forego traditional retail channels and instead sell directly to shoppers. These direct-to-consumer (D2C) startups aim to compete with monopolistic brands in huge markets by offering a vastly improved consumer experience along with a more attractive price point. In the razor market, Dollar Shave Club (now

Trump’s bellicosity undermines his ability to deter the Kim regime’s nuclear weapons and missiles programs. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters) How are we to make sense of the president of the United States—a man with unitary launch authority for over a thousand nuclear weapons—going before the United

Nearly 15 years after founding Quora, D’Angelo wants to reinvent the question-and answer company around AI—before it goes the way of Yahoo Answers. ‘I Want That Sweet Baby’: AI-Generated Kids Draw Predators On TikTok And InstagramImages of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors. But content of fake people falls into a troubling gray area.

A Yahoo sign is seen in New York's Times Square in 2008. (Brendan McDermid / Reuters) Yahoo filed its final quarterly report this week. And just like that, the once-mighty tech firm is exiting public trading. The company has been unraveling—slowly and spectacularly—for more than a decade now. But this particular moment is a good one for reflecting on how Yahoo’s troubles are likely to be replicate

Commissions we earn from partner links on this page do not affect our opinions or evaluations. Our editorial content is based on thorough research and guidance from the Forbes Health Advisory Board. Diet plays an important part in cardiovascular health, impacting everything from blood pressure to your potential of developing heart disease. And while certain patterns of eating may be effective for

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The legacies of racism, not only the violent protests that gripped St. Louis after a white former police officer was acquitted of murdering a black man, must be addressed, the city’s mayor said on Tuesday. Mayor Lyda Krewson said she had listened and read the reaction of residents since the controversial verdict on Friday and was ready to find ways to move the city forward. “

To mark Forbes’ centennial, we assembled 100 essays from the top entrepreneurs, visionaries and thinkers, each sharing an idea or lesson. They're meant to inspire and inform future entrepreneurs, the generation that will build and shape the next century. In their full form, the essays are swiftly told, and they’ve been distilled even further below: to a quote from each. "You cannot do everything a

What’s your educational and professional background? I am a young Tanzanian entrepreneur. Growing up, I attended St. Christopher’s, a private British school in Bahrain, where we lived for 8 years. We later moved to Canada when I was 10. There, I was accepted to an International Business and Technology program at the age of 11. It was a foundational experience that instilled and nurtured in me an e

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that countries need to unite to enforce sanctions and apply pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs. “Now is not the time for dialogue. Now is the time to apply pressure,” Abe told a gathering of investors at the New York Stock Exchange, remarks he later reiterated in an address to the annual Unit

What’s your educational and professional background? I am a young Tanzanian entrepreneur. Growing up, I attended St. Christopher’s, a private British school in Bahrain, where we lived for 8 years. We later moved to Canada when I was 10. There, I was accepted to an International Business and Technology program at the age of 11. It was a foundational experience that instilled and nurtured in me an e

Part 4: Taser International won over police by touting research it said was as rigorous as FDA-style testing. But its claims about its early studies - which began with a pig, five dogs and some willing cops - were overstated. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – When Rick Smith launched his supercharged stun gun in 1999, his startup had produced two failed products, several years of losses and a load of debt. He

Imagine someone that needs an extra phone charger. This shopper won’t go online and click on every page of Amazon or an online retailer and lollygag. They will search for the charger they need, determine the best price of the utility and buy it. This person is not Tophatter’s target customer. Tophatter is focused on those that like learning about new products, discovering deals and enjoy the proce

Saving Billions By Indexing State Pension FundsBogleheads are astutely aware of the saying “Cost matters.” In fact, our friend, mentor and namesake, John C. (Jack) Bogle, founder of Vanguard, created what he called the CMH (the cost matters hypothesis). Here’s how Jack Bogle described his Cost Matters Hypothesis in The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic, which appeared [...] Year-end Financial

for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up BusinessJapan's Abe vows "daring" policiesPosted Shinzo Abe promised to deliver with his economic reforms in his speech before investors at the New York Stock Exchange. Fred Katayama reports.