Unless you are an alkaline tilapia (Alcolapia alcalica) – an extremophile fish adapted to the harsh conditions – it is not the best place to live.
BitTorrent, the company which maintains the popular peer-to-peer downloading protocol, has announced an entry into the world of secure communications.
It has been 13 years since Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, identified the screen names of more than 300,000 Napster users in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The tarring he received in response — being derided as greedy and insensitive to fans — still makes musicians think twice before complaining about the problems with digital music.
Since 2006, the observation satellite Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been charting Mars’s terrain with its HiRISE telescope. In the process, it has produced a series of stunning images that reveal the planet’s beautiful landscape.
Hope for the world's devastated oceans rests on a change in the hearts of the fishermen that know them best.
Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago, according to people familiar with matter.
On the surface, it could be any other high-end watch from the mid-1800s. Inside, however, amidst the cogs and gears, is a different story.
Drawn by his concertlike sermons and pop-idol looks, Carl Lentz's fast growing flock of groupies includes Justin Bieber, NBA superstars, and young Hollywood celebs. But whom, exactly, is this new apostle of cool seeking to glorify?
The new cosmic thriller makes a lot of small mistakes and some big ones—though you may not notice them through the gasps.
In our brains, the images of celebrities occupy a special space. One experiment found “Jennifer Aniston neurons” that fired only when subjects were shown a picture of her. This recognition can be protected by law.
We've known for far too long that the War on Drugs has been a failure, but the statistics reported in the British Medical Journal by Evan Wood, of the University of British Columbia's Urban Health Research Initiative, are astounding.
A love of craft beer culture has led an increasing number of homebrewers to daydream of quitting their desk jobs to take a shot at starting their own brewery. How hard can it be?
Do you wish you could live the Silicon Valley VC lifestyle? The glamor? The apps? The yacht racing and indifference to humanity? Thanks to recent legislative changes, you can't actually have money to invest, but it's effortless to fake it—and maybe even scam people!
Too much of anything is rarely a good thing.
When some workplaces do security audits, they hack their own employees. Confession time: Fast Company tried it, too. Here's what happened.
The smartphone revolution has all but obliterated devices whose sole function is capturing images. Icons like Kodak and Polaroid got walloped; camcorders, like the once-posh Flip cam, went out of style; and sales of point-and-shoot digital cameras plummeted, too. But one company has thrived.
That depends on who you are, and what the robot's for.
Shaken by sobs, his head bowed, a former Guatemalan commando testified last week that he wept as he hurled a little boy to his death in a village well 31 years ago while a commanding officer, Lt. Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, snarled: “This is a job for men!” Sosa's charge? Fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
As biology has gotten better at tracking down the beasts that elude us, unlikely legends are becoming real animals.
More and more women are jumping outside their marriages in search of no-strings-attached sex. All it takes to find a willing partner? An Internet connection and an account on a site like AshleyMadison.com. One writer and monogamist went to meet the growing flock of lady Don Drapers.
If you had to invade another country, how would you do it? Believe it or not, the United States military spent a lot of time pondering that question in the late 1920s, when it came up with a plan to invade its closest neighbor, Canada.
There is a limit to the number of cars that can pass by a given point on the highway in a given amount of time, and that limit is one car every 2 seconds, per lane.
It's four in the morning and you're stuck in your hotel room, bored out of your skull but wide awake. Thanks jet lag! That's the price you pay for changing so many time zones in a single airplane ride. Here's why it happens, and how you can prevent it from ruining your trip.
How tech companies gave up on the ones that love them most.
Obama snuck the tech giant into the Obamacare fight on Tuesday afternoon, trying to drum up a little patience from Americans as his administration grapples with a glitchy rollout.
Simple logic would suggest that “gay genes” would not survive in the evolution of our species. And yet androphilic males — that is, males who are sexually oriented toward other males — show up in cultures around the world. Why?
Winston Churchill authorized the use of the “most devastating chemical weapon ever devised” against the Russian Bolsheviks at the end of the First World War, a noted historical author has revealed.
The jet engine ultimately made it possible for all 535 members of Congress to fly home, pretty much every single weekend. And you might think that this would be good, but you would be wrong.
OkCupid, match.com and eHarmony promise the world, but are actually incentivised to keep you alone, furiously and miserably clicking through thousands of profiles in the hope of finding love.
Being hung by incompetent executioners can be a blessing in disguise.
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