Traffic apps turned the city's neighborhoods into "shortcuts." Now furious residents are attempting to take them back, street by street

There’s a psychological phenomenon behind it: the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Laptops have become lighter, thinner, and ubiquitous. With widely available tools such as Evernote, OneNote, Google Docs, etc. — note-taking has gone digital, and many people don’t see the value in old-fashioned analog. However, the value of note-tak ...

The nation has largely won the war on smoking, unless you’re uneducated or live in a rural area.

The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow or cease, the pillars that define our society – democracy ...

Runaway real estate speculation has been filling global capitals with vacant homes, creating artificial shortages in the world’s most sought after cities. The “shortage” has made local home owners wealthy overnight, but it comes at the cost of turnin ...

There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any descript ...

In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?

The expression, and the photo, have become a mainstay of inspirational posters, expressing concepts like success, imagination, and the human condition. The image is composed of four separate pictures - the underwater shot and shot of the clouds was t ...

Microsoft has long been the bastion of long term support for older platforms, so today’s support news out of Redmond is particularly surprising. Intel launched its 6th generation Skylake cores back in August, and support on Windows 7 has been not as ...

You can play your life like Tetris or maybe like a chess, are you playing the game wrong?

A little-known feature of the HTML5 specification means that websites can find out how much battery power a visitor has left on their laptop or smartphone – and now, security researchers have warned that that information can be used to track browsers ...

In the past five months the number of Telegram messaging app users has increased by 12 million, reaching 62 million people. Will the `Russian WhatsApp" be serious competition for the giants of the industry?

Great song and music video from The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band's album Between The Ditches.

iCliniq.com have just launched a Telegram bot so that you can ask their doctors anything from the comfort of your smartphone, messaging them any time, anywhere. Questions are answered within a matter of hours by their team of 800+ doctors across 71+ ...

Croatia threatened on Thursday to withdraw from border arbitration with Slovenia, after a leaked wiretap purported to show a Slovenian judge on the panel exchanging confidential information with the Ljubljana government.

The team will lose one point in its Euro 2016 qualifying group, has to play its next two home matches in the Euro competition in an empty stadium and prohibited play of Croatia’s remaining qualifying matches at the Stadion Poljud. Lastly, UEFA fined ...

Chelsea's top-flight title rivals are "buying the title" by spending huge sums of money this summer, according to Jose Mourinho. He insists that the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United, who have both splashed the cash during ...

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