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Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian newspaper and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover ...
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
Europe’s Mars Express was built on a relative shoestring, completed in just five years and designed to survive for just 687 days. Ten years on, after more than 12,000 swings around the red planet, it is still going strong. Along with NASA’s fleet of ...
An asteroid nearly 3 km wide has passed by Earth, offering scientists a rare chance to study a massive flying object with its own moon. U.S. space agency NASA said ahead of the event that Asteroid 1998 QE2 was to come closest to Earth ...
Of all the hazards facing a human mission to Mars — something NASA and countless other space buffs would love to see at some point — one of the hardest to solve is the radiation that saturates interplanetary space. New data, gathered by NASA’s ...
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions. Some of those models are more accurate than others. During Superstorm Sandy last October, for instance, the model from the ...
A raven-size creature that lived about 150 million years ago is back on its perch, a new study says. Widely pegged as the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx’s status was called into question two years ago by Chinese scientists. They proposed yanking the prehistoric creature ...
An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from around 1155 to 1225. It was right under his nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistakenly cataloged ...
Plants entombed under ice in Canada’s far north for centuries have come back to life after exposure to air and sunlight, Canadian researchers have found. University of Alberta researcher Catherine La Farge collected what she believed to be dead mosses (or bryophytes) from the ...
Russian scientists claimed Wednesday they have discovered blood in the carcass of a woolly mammoth, adding that the rare find could boost their chances of cloning the prehistoric animal. An expedition led by Russian scientists earlier this month uncovered the well-preserved carcass of a ...
Male dinosaurs may not have had a caring side after all. Five years ago, a study of theropod dinosaurs concluded that it was male dinosaurs that incubated the eggs of their offspring. Now a new analysis of the same data is challenging that finding. ...
People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have an 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than those treated on a Monday, research shows. The odds stacked up for every successive day of the week, with the death risk ...
At its annual shareholder meeting Thursday, McDonald’s once again faced criticism that it is a purveyor of junk food that markets its products to children. The world’s biggest hamburger chain has been looking to keep up with changing tastes as people increasingly opt for ...
Minerals found in craters on the moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite’s innards exposed by such impacts, a study said Sunday. The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, cast doubt on the ...