FCC shoots down Netflix's call to expand the scope of net neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission made clear today that it won't heed Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' call to expand the scope of net neutrality to regulate the way companies connect across the physical infrastructure of the internet. This system, which includes internet companies like Netflix, middlemen like Cogent, and internet service providers like Comcast, is the backbone that moves data across the country from Netflix servers into consumers' homes.

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Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire

In the late ’90s, Antje Danielson’s son Max and Robin Chase’s daughter Linnea often played together on a tire swing in Cambridge’s Dana Park. The two women had met at their kids’ kindergarten, but supervising the playground is how they got to know each other. As Danielson, a Harvard geochemist, and Chase, an MIT business school graduate turned stay-at-home mom, kept chatting, their casual park encounters grew more profound. Chase started telling Danielson about wanting to put her...

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How Facebook became the new front in Mexico's drug war

A banner left at the scene of a drug war killing. Translated to English, it reads, in part, "This is what happens to thieves, kidnappers and traitors."

On December 16th, 2009, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of one of the largest and most violent illegal drug enterprises in Mexico, was killed in a shootout. An ambush, really. Orchestrated by the Mexican federal government and based on intelligence from the US, it took place in a suburb about an hour’s drive south of Mexico City, as part of a coordinated assault on the upscale apartment building where Beltrán Leyva was staying. At least 200 Mexican marines were involved, along with navy helicopters and two army tanks.

But while press conference-fueled reports emerged on international...

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Xbox One TV expands to Europe and Canada with new SmartGlass features

Xbox One owners in Europe and Canada will soon be able to test the TV integration features of the console. While OneGuide, Microsoft’s TV guide service and set-top box control for Xbox One, has been available in the US since launch, the company has not yet started rolling it out elsewhere. That’s not changing immediately, but select Xbox One preview members will be able to test the features today in the UK, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Microsoft is soliciting feedback on the integration, and its plans to tweak the OneGuide functionality over the coming months during the preview phase.

The OneGuide functionality also includes voice commands in Europe and Canada to control set-top boxes connected via the HDMI-in port....

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Study finds monkeys on low-calorie diets live longer, healthier lives

For decades, a group of rhesus monkeys has been under observation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Half were randomly selected to eat as much as they desired for the rest of their lives, while the rest were stuck on nutritious, but heavily restricted diets consisting of 30 percent fewer calories. The number of monkeys has slowly dwindled over the years, with scientists taking notes on how each one died.

Now, 25 years since the study first started, the researchers have published their latest results. The control monkeys, which were on unrestricted diets, had roughly a three times greater risk of age-related death and disease than those that were calorie restricted. Of the 38 monkeys on each diet, 28 of the control monkeys died...

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GRIFFINS ANNOUNCE SKYTIX©

The Grand Rapids Griffins on Tuesday announced the forthcoming debut of Griffins SkyTix©, an innovative, drone-based ticket delivery system.



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If you play one goat simulator in 2014, make it this one

True to its name, Goat Simulator starts you innocently enough: in a goat pen, with nothing but a sticky tongue and a hard skull to your name. Across the street, some protesters are holding a rally. You ram a lamppost into the crowd and headbutt the survivors, glitching several feet backwards as you try to lick one of their signs: NO PENIS SHAPED FOOD. An empty pool filled with trampolines is just down the road. You bounce across them and into a construction site, where you find a jetpack....

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