The hackers who claimed to have stolen every bit of data from Ashley Madison, a dating website intended for adulterers, have made good on their promise to release the full database if the site didn’t shut down.
China’s internet watchdog has doled out punishments to 50 websites it says were “spreading rumors” about the massive chemical explosions that rocked the city of Tianjin last week.
There’s a new app that is nothing but a mashup of two apps. It’s called Bar Roulette, and it uses Uber to whisk you off to a random nearby bar with a high Yelp rating.
Chen Guangbiao’s latest publicity stunt has backfired.
When Apple debuted its streaming music service in June, it launched a live radio station to go with it: Beats 1 is billed as “the world’s local station,” with DJs in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Anyone can listen 24 hours a day using iTunes or the Apple Music app.
The United States economy added 215,000 jobs in July, falling slightly below expectations, and the unemployment remained unchanged at 5.3%. We’re collecting all the relevant charts from the report below.
Some Donald Trump insults are so mesmerizing that you have to watch them again and again. Now you can, for 10 hours straight.
Setting out from Boston, hitchBOT wanted nothing more than to see America, really see it, from sea to shining sea. Unfortunately, the friendly thumbs-upping robot got its head bashed in after getting only as far as Philadelphia.
Many things in the world are hard to understand. That’s why it’s important to explain them simply.
A Russian senator thinks emoji depicting girls kissing girls and boys kissing boys are corrupting his country’s family values.
Video games are big in China. We’re talking 60 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) big. That’s a little less than half the size of the US market, and a lot less per capita, but the rapid growth of mobile gaming will help China close the gap.
Words spread like weeds—seemingly at random but actually governed by invisible forces. Look away for too long, and suddenly new ones are emerging from who knows where.
China has always said that it would meet a declaration of independence from Taiwan with a military invasion of the island, which it considers a rogue province. That promise started to look a bit more real recently, with an official video of a People’s Liberation Army exercise, showing a raid on a building that looks strikingly like the Presidential Office Building in Taipei.
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Ever wondered what makes Indian food Indian? Or Greek Greek? Thai Thai? Often, a single ingredient can set a cuisine apart. (Mustard oil, feta cheese, and galangal in the cases above.)
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Go Set a Watchman, released worldwide this week, was initially portrayed as a long-lost second novel by Harper Lee. But reports leading up to its publication have made clear that Watchman is more accurately seen as the early first draft of Lee’s classic work, To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of racism in the deep south of the United States during the Great Depression.
Chinese entrepreneurs are obsessed with Steve Jobs. They adopt his austere wardrobe and dramatic presentation style. They think about him: Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple founder was an instant best-seller in China, and when he died, the country fretted over whether it would be able to produce its own version of Jobs.
Shanghai natives usually refer to the migrants who come to their city from elsewhere in China as waidiren, literally “people from another area.” That makes perfect sense. But there is another, more befuddling term for them: “hard drives.”
In 2000, United Nations member countries agreed to ambitious development targets that they hoped to reach by 2015. These are the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Among them was to reduce the number of people suffering from undernourishment—enough to cut the global hunger rate in half.
First, 11 Chinese students studying abroad in Australia, the US, and the UK wrote an open letter to the people of China, enumerating the horrors of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre—which has its 26th anniversary next month—and calling upon the Communist Party to put those responsible on trial.
China’s military released an ominous warning on May 10, telling troops and the wider public that network-connected wearable devices pose a national security risk when used by military personnel.
Chinese internet powerhouse Alibaba has taken down a job posting that sought a woman to fill the role of “programmer encouragement specialist.” It was just as bad as that sounds.
To the annoyance of the US, usually dependable allies like Britain, France, and Australia have signed on as founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a China-driven alternative to the World Bank. Not so for another American ally: China has rejected Taiwan’s bid to join as a founding member.
