Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say Investigating the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal in Britain in 2018. Western officials say an elite unit of the Russian inte

How Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success Failure is just part of the process. Credit... Hanna Barczyk By Published Oct. 27, 2019 Updated Oct. 29, 2019 Welcome to the Smarter Living newslet

Published 24 November 2019 Share page About sharing Media caption, "An electric baton to the back of the head" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC Leaked documents detai

How to Move Abroad Millions of Americans move overseas every year, some for love, some for jobs and others to embrace new cultures. Here’s how you can join them. Credit... Alvaro Dominguez By Publishe

How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them) Even if you find it easy to make friends — and it’s not, for most people — getting truly close to people is still difficult. Here’s how to make i

Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the ‘Deepfake’ Future Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing ba

One of three timber construction buildings recently completed for the Swatch Group in Switzerland. Credit... Swatch Group The Trees and the Forest of New Towers As engineered wood evolves as a constru

How to — Literally — Sound More Confident and Persuasive Speak up, it’ll help. Credit... Rose Wong By Nov. 10, 2019 Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emai

China Defends Crackdown on Muslims, and Criticizes Times Article Hotan, in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, in August. The low yellow buildings once housed a re-education camp. Credit... Gilles

In the fall of 2015, a rash of posters appeared around Copenhagen. One, in pink letters laid over an image of chicken eggs, asked, “Have you counted your eggs today?” A second — a blue-tinted close-up

Journal Reports: Retirement We talked to the expats who had previously written for us about retiring outside the U.S. Do they still like it? Have any returned home? By Glenn Ruffenach Nov. 15, 2019 11

Modern Love He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt Sometimes it’s the uneventful stretches of marriage that can be the real stress test. Credit... Brian Rea By Nov. 15, 2019 Leer en español I would n

The decisions we spend the most time on are rarely the most important ones. Not all decisions need the same process. Sometimes, trying to impose the same process on all decisions leads to difficulty i

For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that in other times and places spurred youn

The United States is less happy and more depressed than it’s been in a long time, and people are trying to figure out why. The World Happiness Report shows us down for 3 years in a row , and we’re cur

Published 4 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Microsoft Japan said sales had been boosted by nearly 40% during an experime

It’s old news that people no longer stay with one company for their whole career. While it was commonplace to get a job and stick with it for four decades, professionals have to look out for No. 1. Wi

Work done for a reward is much lower than work done in the Yoga of wisdom. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for the reward; but never cease to do thy work. —The Bhagavad

In a Field Notes post from 2014, LeadingAgile consultant Andrew Fuqua considers Brooks' Law in the context of the Theory of Constraints. Brooks' Law is the adage that adding manpower to a late softwar

Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain’s first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler’s charisma. He be

We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. In a post last year , we laid out the human lifespan visually. By years: By months: And by weeks: While working on that

"Everything with a power point is probably connected, or will be shortly," says Christopher Neal, chief information security officer (CISO) of Ramsay Health Care. "Increasingly that connectivity is cr

According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times a day and spend 26 hours a week on social media. These aren’t hours allotted to a hobby I view as a priority. Rather, these are hours lost to what

You may not have known this, but there's such a thing as a World PowerPoint Championship. This year it had around 850,000 students from 119 countries, and has a state, national, and world competition.

There is a connection between my research into behavioral models of information security and my Black Hat USA talk with Dr. Forsgren from last week regarding DevOps and the future of information secur

With a “hello,” Microsoft and UW demonstrate the first fully-automated DNA data storage and retrieval system. Photo: Microsoft Microsoft In 1862, Gregor Mendel bred pea plants to study inheritance. Fast forward 100 years to 1962, James Watson, Frances Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded a Nobel…

Prerequisite plug that you should come see my talk with Dr. Nicole Forsgren at Black Hat next week (16:00 in South Pacific)! What type of vendors are showing themselves off in the Business Hall? Are t

WORLD VIEW 24 July 2019 Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird. Kate Starbird Kate Starbird studies human–computer interaction and crisis in

The key political partnership of the Millennial left was born over noodles. Saikat Chakrabarti met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Potjanee, a Thai restaurant near his apartment in the West Village, in Ma

Category: The Life of a Programmer I’ve been reading a book called, “ The Four Hour Work Week ” lately, and the timing is pretty interesting. In the book, Ferris outlines a positively cold-blooded pla

The previous three Industrial Revolutions leveraged technologies to enable economies of scale and mass consumption. But the Fourth – formidable and sweeping in scale as it is – has much greater opport

The ability to focus is an important driver of excellence. Focused techniques such as to-do lists , timetables, and calendar reminders all help people to stay on task. Few would argue with that, and e

Jena Ardell/Getty Images “I really became a robot,” a manager at an accounting firm explained. She and her colleagues worked extraordinarily long hours, but, she said, “I thought it was normal. It’s l

California is the first state to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter. Photograph by Emma

…without actually doing that How we got here After Apple released its (soon-to-be) previous generation Mac Pro, it probably didn't take long for them to realize they had a trash can fire on their hand

3 min read · Jun 27, 2019 -- Images from Hand Signals on Wikipedia I take issue with a lot of standard advice. “Pick your battles” is terrible, and “Stay in your lane” is something of a trigger phrase

What makes something endure for centuries? To find out, we must start with a principle called the "Lindy Effect", explains Tom Chatfield. FORECAST CHALLENGE Some people are particularly good at seeing

Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying: Dark Mode is a dramatic new look that helps you focus on your work. The subt