Innholdsfortegnelse for 11/01/2019 i Newsweek International

1993  “Do dogs lead textured lives full of love, jealousy, passion and fear?’’ Newsweek asked. “According to best-selling author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, they sure do,” For her book, The Hidden Life of Dogs. Thomas rigorously studied her 11 dogs for three decades. Newsweek said the book boasted “a remarkable level of intimacy for a work of science.” and provided significant insight into “the secret world of animals”—they “fall in love, get married, and live in complex societies.” Their lives are “rich in intellectual pursuits, packed with emotion.” This in mind, we can all feel better about a dog’s unbridled joy. 1964 Newsweek reported on the “consensus that President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Democrats were poised for a landslide victory” over Barry Goldwater. After “the most bizarre and apparently lopsided…

“I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal.”—SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG TO BETO O’ROURKE “POWERFUL INTERESTS SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO WIPE YOU OUT IS NOT A FUN EXPERIENCE.”—AUTHOR RONAN FARROW “I earned my spurs on the battlefield. Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor.”—FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS AT ALFRED E. SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DINNER “If you would have told me then that I would be where I am now, I would have said you were insane. I would never have dreamt how much I could have accomplished.”—miami city ballet soloist kathryn morgan “WE NEED TRUMP ON TWITTER. IT’S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN MONITOR WHAT HE’S UP TO!”—The Daily Show host Trevor Noah “They've got a lot of sand…

HOUSEHOLD SPY Smartphones and WiFienabled speakers are just two of the many devices that make up the “Internet of Things.” Manufacturers are tripping over themselves to connect household appliances to the internet but giving short shrift to security. IN 2009, JUST AS CONSUMERS HAD begun to buy wifi-enabled thermostats and front-door cams and other early devices that now make up the “Internet of Things,” computer scientist Ang Cui had gotten the idea to scan the Web for “trivially vulnerable” embedded devices. By trivial, he meant those devices that still carried the usernames and passcodes programmed into them at the factory—obvious usernames like “name” and passcodes like “1234.” Many of these codes were published in manuals available freely on the internet and easily scanned automatically with computer programs, so there was…

METHODOLOGY → The 2020 America’s Best Customer Service rankings were identified from the results of an independent survey of more than 20,000 U.S. customers who either made purchases, used services or gathered information about products or services in the past three years. Customers evaluated several brands: 115,115 evaluations were collected in total. The awarded brands each received on average close to 100 evaluations from customers. The survey was conducted on retailers and service providers from 160 categories, providing results for a broad spectrum of customer experiences in traditional retail, online and service segments. For each category, the most relevant brands have been included in the scope of the survey according to their reputation, turnover or market share. In the brick and mortar categories, only retailers and service providers present in…

BELIEVE IT OR NOT: SOME ACADEMICS AND writers, who wouldn’t be caught dead in Donald Trump’s MAGA hats, have started complaining about language policing and other forms of intellectual bullying on the left. So says Meghan Daum in her new book, The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, which will be published this month by Gallery Books. Daum, 49, an author, journalist and sometimes teacher at Columbia University, has a deep distrust of dogma. Since 2016, she writes, she has distracted herself from her personal woes—divorce, the upheavals of middle age—by clicking onto social media. That’s where she witnessed angry lefties swarm individuals who expressed opinions that deviated from a rigid set of rules related to how we talk about race and gender. She watched with…

NOTHING IS 100 percent secure. That’s especially true for homes chock full of devices chirping away day and night on the internet. But there are simple steps to minimize the risk of hackers turning homes into surveillance fish-bowls or recruiting appliances for zombie bot armies. It starts with self-awareness: the number one cause of security breaches is human error, usually when someone clicks a malicious link that allows unauthorized access or loads malicious software. Here’s what you can do to minimize the risk: → Don’t buy unsecured devices. Sometimes the cool factor can cloud your decision-making. Do your research before you make a purchase. Are there known vulnerabilities with the device that can expose your home network? → Harden your home WiFi router. Set up a unique user-name and password.…

01 Disney Cruise Line This magical company earned the highest rating, A-, of any cruise line this year for reducing its carbon footprint from Friends of the Earth. It also wants to inspire more women to take to the seas and will be gifting new scholarships to students at a maritime academy in The Bahamas. 02 Neiman Marcus Despite operating for 112 years, it only opened its first New York City flagship this year. Many of their stores use digitized mirrors so customers can record themselves in 360 degrees and “try on” different colors, and now customers can check out from their fitting room. 03 The Ritz-Carlton Its spirit began in Boston’s luxurious Ritz-Carlton in 1927, which had a room rate of $15 and kept lights on in vacant rooms…

A lot of the excesses you describe are in the academic, media and publishing world where you teach and write. Did you ever worry about how these views might affect your career? I didn’t worry because I’m not beholden to any single institution. I’m a free agent. Furthermore, I’ve taken a counterintuitive approach to my writing for decades. I’ve gotten angry letters from readers since I started publishing in my twenties. But I’ve also always known that for every person who bothers to tell me how upset they are with what I wrote, there are probably hundreds who are grateful. To me, if you’re not going to write in a way that challenges people’s assumptions, what’s the point of doing the job? You have witnessed how language policing works on…

China Has Found a Development Path Suited to Its Actual Conditions China has made tremendous achievements over the past 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Its successes have been achieved through the hard work of generations of Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Also, China is developing through interaction with the world. China’s Development Is an Opportunity for the World The causes of the “China threat” theory include cognitive misunderstanding, deep-rooted prejudice, a psychological imbalance brought about by the prospect of falling power and deliberate distortions by vested interests. China’s pursuit of peaceful development is not diplomatic rhetoric, an act of expediency or a strategic ambiguity. Rather, it showcases China’s confidence in theory and readiness for practice, and represents China’s…

“If you have door locks that are connected to the Internet, someone else [can] HACK YOUR front door.” THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) is not just a security problem. It’s also a privacy nightmare. Few people in Washington know more about the issue than Marc Rotenberg, a Georgetown Law Professor who serves as president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In 1994, he founded the Washington D.C.-based organization to fight to protect individual privacy and civil liberties on the burgeoning computer network. At the time banks and other large commercial interests just beginning to establish an online presence. Today there’s a lot more to worry about. Newsweek’s Adam Piore spoke with Rotenberg about what the emerging world of networked devices means for our privacy --and what…