Kathryn Schulz on a uniquely versatile bug that is decimating crops and infiltrating houses all across the country.

Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two. Enter a word (or two) above and you’ll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming together words that are conceptually related to your inputs.. For example, enter “giraffe” and you’ll get back words like “gazellephant” and “gorilldebeest”.

The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark.It is a teen paper to The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.. In 2007, The Star-Ledger ‘ s daily circulation was reportedly more than the next two …

Ars Technica (/ ˌ ɑːr z ˈ t ɛ k n ɪ k ə /; a Latin-derived term that the site translates as the “art of technology”) is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, …

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The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs.

Condé Nast Layoffs: Downsizing related discussion, postings, questions and answers.

The Indian city of Gurugram, which in Hindi means “village of the guru,” is a technology-and-business hub twenty miles south of New Delhi, reached by highways filled with auto-rickshaws, exhaust-spewing buses, and the occasional immovable cow. The city’s glass high-rises contain dozens of

Dec 15, 2009 · Our continuing farewell to magazines that quit print under pressure from recession and digital media. Some brands continue online, but many do not.

Condé Nast, which has recently experienced significant layoffs amid hail-Mary experiments like a paywall for its tech publication Wired, could use a savior.Funding in media is a chronically unsolved problem and Apple has the literal largest cash pile in all the world. The question is, which of Condé’s brands might best fit, and/or can Condé …