New search engine combs through harvested images used to train Stable Diffusion, others.

Are you finding it harder than ever to concentrate? Don’t panic: these simple exercises will help you get your attention. Picture your day before you started to read this article. What did you do? In every single moment – getting out of bed, turning on a tap, flicking the kettle switch – your brain was blasted with information. Each second, the eyes will give the brain the equivalent of 10m bits (binary digits) of data.

Without online diversity, only a handful of people will dictate the fate of the world.

When it came to slavery, the Union, not the Confederacy, was the true guardian of states' rights in the antebellum era.

The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to actually make this happen. The U.S. Constitution is famously short—a mere 7,591 words, including its 27 amendments. That makes it all the more remarkable that 110 of those words have been, in effect, lost to the ages.

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.

9. CRUMPSY: Short-tempered and irritable.

The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.

#SausagePartyMovie in Theaters August 12, 2016 Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.

Mario floats about like a confused jellyfish.

So I found these maps recently of the Roman Empire. The first has some interesting details about the Roman provinces in general while the second is far more detailed and carefully constructed. If y…

Amazingly, there are 7,099 languages still spoken in the world today.

It had a good 36-year run, but its day is done.

Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state to help citizens vote for candidates they actually want. By Peter White.

In the film "Erin Brockovich," the environmental crusader confronts the lawyer of a power company that polluted the tap water of Hinkley, Calif., with a carcinogenic chemical called chromium-6. When the lawyer picks up a glass of water, Brockovich says: “We had that water brought in ‘specially for you folks. Came from a well in Hinkley.” The lawyer sets down the glass and says, "I think this meeting’s over."

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Québec is bilingual, but reluctantly. As a French province with small pockets of English, and a few larger pockets that will willingly use both languages, the signs, by law, are in French. The language on the street is French. Ordering food or browsing a store will likely involve some amount of standard conversational French, and should you get in trouble with the law, it's going to be time to find a Francophile lawyer. The profanity, though, is pure Québec.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to update privacy rules to prevent broadband Internet access service providers from recording and sharing their customers’ every move online.

The world of NES emulation hasn't been all that exciting since the late '90s, when NESticle provided "good enough" emulation accuracy and stability for any NES game out there (though there has been a lot of subsequent work to get that final bit of true emulation accuracy). So it was a bit of a surprise this week to stumble across a new NES emulator that provides a genuinely new perspective on decades-old games by rendering them in three dimensions.

Microsoft's latest web browser saves users' Web browsing history while they're in incognito mode, defeating the entire purpose of the feature.

Former Firefox head honcho takes a Brave stance

Scant few games stand the test of time and retain a large active player base sixteen years after release. But not only has Age of Empires II endured, it has thrived. It’s gained new steam thanks in part to an official high-definition re-release but mostly due to the ragtag group of modders-turned-developers who made that release possible. Forgotten Empires filled the game with new stuff and rebalanced the multiplayer in one enormous mod and then...

Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. In November 2008, I had been sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail, mostly over my web activities, and thought I would end up spending most of my life in those cells. So the moment, when it came, was unexpected. I was sharing a cup of tea when the voice of the floor announcer – another prisoner – filled all the rooms and corridors: “Dear fellow inmates, the bird of luck has once again sat...

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For a writer, a foreign language is a new kind of adventure. By Jhumpa Lahir.

There is a new version of FixWin tool on The Windows Club, used for correcting annoying problems in Microsoft's operating system Windows 10. FixWin 10 for Windows 10 is solving the following bugs and difficulties in use: - Problems with apps download from the Windows Store - Application was no...

Khartabil has been imprisoned in a Syria's Adra Prison since 2012, though as of October, he has been transferred to an undisclosed location. The free software/open culture activist was the lead for Creative Commons Syria and has contributed to Wikipedia, Firefox and many other projects. He was arrested on the first anniversary of the Syrian uprising, and was tortured for five days by Syria's Military Branch 215 and was tried, without access to counsel...

Software that spits out misinformation about what you're actually doing on the web is a fascinating development in our relationship to online surveillance.

Streaming music service Rdio is planning to shut down and sell "key assets" to Pandora. Pandora announced the pending acquisition today, saying it will spend $75 million to buy "technology and intellectual property from Rdio" and hire "many members of Rdio's team." Pandora is not buying the full company. But using Rdio technology and staff, the buyer "expects to offer an expanded Pandora listening experience by late 2016, pending its ability to obtain proper licenses."

This week at the WSJD Live event in Southern California, HBO CEO Richard Plepler took the stage to criticize broadband providers like Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T (which owns DirecTV) for not jumping at the chance to bundle HBO Now with their Internet services. The network launched HBO Now, a standalone streaming service that costs $15 per month, earlier this year. Initially, you could only get the service...