Meet the Unruly Clan That Once Ruled the Hill Country

Austin native Ken Roberts’ book tells the story of the cedar choppers of Central Texas, who clashed with townsfolk in the mid-20th century.
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The most exciting thing about the 2020 Games might be the robots

Toyota shared its electric vehicle and robot lineup for the 2020 Olympic Games. Things are about to get weird.
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China’s Spies Are on the Offensive

China’s spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them?
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A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires

Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach.
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Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail. Is it working?

Four months in, ridership on the $3.2M Via service is reportedly exceeding expectations.
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Summer on the Swollen Great Lakes

The lakes rose this year to levels not seen in decades. A 1,234-mile drive around one of them revealed what all that water has left behind — vanishing beaches, closed roads, new islands.
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Archeology site sheds light on Aboriginal Australians 50,000 years ago

A site unearthed in the Kimberly region of Western Australia offers glimpses into First Nations life before and after the Ice Age.
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Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs

While other cities are jailing drug users, Seattle has found another way.
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Remembering the Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers

Archaeologists help modern descendants of Chinese railroad laborers commemorate their ancestors.
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Africa is on the verge of being declared polio-free

Health workers overcame violence and conspiracy theories
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Op-Ed: Why so many Chinese students can't understand the Hong Kong protests

When I came to the U.S. from China as a student, my thinking had been shaped by Chinese propaganda.
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It’ll be hard, but we can feed the world with plant protein

Legumes could be the answer, writes Richard Trethowan from the University of Sydney, Australia.
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How K-pop is luring young North Koreans to cross the line

David Bowie and the Beatles may have helped topple the Berlin Wall. Now South Korean and Western pop may be undermining the Pyongyang regime.
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Meet the Icelandic Composer Who Wrote Haunting Scores for ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Joker’ at the Same Time

“Chernobyl” was the surprise drama of the season, which benefited greatly from the unique score by Icelandic cellist/composer Hildur Gudnadóttir, who earned one of the 19 Emmy nominations picked up by the HBO miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Comprised of actual sounds recorded by the composer in the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, prior to the shoot, the result was an eerie score that captured the creepy horror of the Soviet nuclear disaster and its aftermath.
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Scientists discover star dust in Antarctic snow

A team of scientists hauled 500 kilograms of fresh snow back from Antarctica, melted it, and sifted through the particles that remained. Their analysis yielded a surprise: The snow held significant amounts of a form of iron that isn't naturally produced on Earth.
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AC GRAYLING: It's not Boris Johnson we should fear - it's the extreme Brexiteers pulling the strings

Boris Johnson does not believe the right-wing bluster he sprouts - but how he operates acts as a useful distraction from the far-right hard Brexit clique pulling the strings. These are the people we should really fear.
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Humans migrated to Mongolia much earlier than previously believed

Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed.
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‘It’s All Driven by Salmon:’ The Push to Protect the Pitt River

The Coquitlam area river and its tributaries are under attack. But advocates are working to repair the damage.
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The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon

Alaska has been in the throes of an unprecedented heat wave this summer, and the heat stress is killing salmon in large numbers.
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British Columbia's dirty natural gas secret

Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.
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Busted: Kaspersky AV Tracked Your Every Click

Kaspersky Lab’s endpoint security products track your web activity. The Russian company even monitors visits to https-secured websites.
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The Tale of Genji: The world’s first novel?

Written 1,000 years ago, the epic story of 11th-Century Japan, The Tale of Genji, was written by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman.
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The Subversive Messages Hidden in The Wizard of Oz

It’s easy to mistake the 1939 classic as traditional family entertainment – but 80 years on from its release, the musical is more radical and surreal than ever.
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This sourdough loaf was made with 4,500-year-old Egyptian yeast

Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a loaf of sourdough bread using yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian pottery
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Facial recognition test mistakenly identified 26 California legislators as criminals

The results of the experiment were similar to last year's, which identified 28 members of the US Congress as criminals. In both studies, the ALCU contends that the majority of misidentifications involved people of color.
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Satellites show Brazil’s deforestation has only gotten worse since Bolsonaro took office

Jair Bolsonaro can't hide tree crimes from these satellite eyes
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As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive

In one of the hottest and fastest-warming American cities, residents adapt their summer schedules to find times when temperatures are more tolerable.
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World's largest urban farm to open – on a Paris rooftop

The 14,000m² farm is set to open in the south-west of Paris early next year
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Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city, study finds

Solar power has become cheaper than grid electricity across China, a development that could boost the prospects of industrial and commercial solar, according to a new study.
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Thousands Defy Crackdown in Moscow's Biggest Protest for Years

A law enforcement officer detains a man after a rally to demand authorities allow opposition candidates to run in the upcoming local election in Moscow, Russia August 10, 2019.
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Degenerate takes a dip in shark tank at Ripley's Aquarium

Man in video is also wanted for assault causing bodily harm in an unrelated incident the same day. Know who this is? Report to the Toronto police. Video may be used by any media entities that wish to do so *with compensation for rights to publish*.
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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil

YouTube built its business on keeping users hooked. This has been a gift to extremist groups. An investigation in the company’s second-biggest market found serious consequences.
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Radioactive materials involved in deadly blast, Russia confirms

A mystery explosion at a Russian weapons testing range involved radioactive materials, authorities admitted on Saturday, as the blast's death toll rose and signs of a creeping radiation emergency, or at the least fear of one, grew harder to mask.
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Want the best prices for your trip? Google can help.

Find inspiration for where to go, decide what neighborhood to stay in, and book flights and hotels with more confidence
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It's All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?

A close look at a strangely global idiom about how little we understand each other.
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New survey reveals which religions New Zealanders trust most – and least – after Christchurch shootings

A survey of New Zealanders' attitudes towards religious groups, taken after the Christchurch mosque shootings, shows they trust Buddhists most and Evangelicals least.
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Chinese pupils 'work through night' to make Amazon Echos

Chinese students are being paid low wages and pressured into illegal work hours, activists say.
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Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit (2017)

When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless networks from the ground up in order to provide affordable and high-speed internet to prevent the creation of a digital class system.
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Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall

Depending who you ask, Cosmo Park is an ingenious urban oasis or an ill-conceived dystopia
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Sites using Facebook 'Like' button liable for data, EU court rules

Europe’s top court ruled Monday (30 July) that companies that embed Facebook’s “Like” button on their websites must seek users’ consent to transfer their personal data to the US social network, in line with the bloc’s data privacy laws
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Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest

The letters came from everywhere—Verona, Italy; Littleton, Colorado; Oakland, California; Augsburg Germany; Sherrodsville, Ohio; Springfield, Massachusetts; Bronx, New York. They were written by children, teenagers, and adults, and while some were just a few words, others filled pages with detailed life stories. But they all shared the same sentiment: Please take back the rocks we stole. We’re sorry; we shouldn’t have done it.
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Get Ready For Higher Prices If New Tariffs Hit Goods From China, Retailers Warn

Retailers predict rising prices if President Trump goes through with his threat to add new tariffs to Chinese imports. Meanwhile, the White House announced a deal to boost beef exports.
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Elon Musk's Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?

In Elon Musk’s mind-brain, the future is autonomous cars (Teslas) getting sucked into the earth and then fired through tunnels at speed in a clean, orderly new system for navigating cities. The reality has... not quite been that good. Now in Las Vegas, Musk’s tunneling venture The Boring Company is trying for a bold transportation for CES in 2021, but even that is showing its limitations—as it competes against Vegas’ monorail.
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China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.

In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
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This Hong Kong start-up puts the smart into prisons with AI

More than 40 cameras with the AI system were installed at Pik Uk Prison – in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district – in February, as the government pushes smart city infrastructure
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Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities

The long read: They have become a menace in European cities. In Barcelona, where wild boar are jostling tourists and raiding rubbish bins, the fightback has begun
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There's a new problem ⁠— the term 'modern humans' doesn't cut it any more

Scientists are pondering whether to differentiate our ancestors as neanderthals, denisovans, etc, or just call them all 'people' as genetics show modern humans aren't that diverse.
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China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World

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The swimming scandal that has embarrassed Australia

Shayna Jack's positive drug test fuels claims of hypocrisy after a teammate's rebuke of a Chinese rival.
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Old black and white photos of Warsaw Uprising brought to life in incredible colour

A window company employee has sent the internet into meltdown with his stunning colourisation of photos from the Warsaw Uprising.
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