Over 100 people were arrested in protests in support of Freddie Gray as the unrest spread to New York City Wednesday night, according to reports. The New York protest, which began in Union Square, was […]
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Social Media Can Predict Unrest But Is This Ethical?
While the broken glass and burned wreckage is being cleared in the wake of the riots that hit Baltimore’s streets this week, researchers are already analyzing the situation to see if such events can be […]
Rare Win For Literacy As White House Announces E-book Initiative
The literacy movement saw a rare win on Thursday after years of attack from the copyright monopolies and tech companies who have sought to remove libraries from our culture. The White House on Thursday launched […]
Netflix Moves To Children’s TV, Will Produce ‘Green Eggs And Ham’
Netflix continues its quest to disrupt the film and television industry as it announced plans Thursday to adapt Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss’ famous creation – and make it into a TV animation. […]
FOIA Request Exposes Keystone Pipeline Failures
According to documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Request parts of TransCanada’s Keystone 1 pipeline show an alarming rate of corrosion. A mandatory inspection test has revealed a section of the pipeline’s wall corroded […]
U.S. May Be Poised To Sell Iran Nuclear Materials
Sanctions and an increasingly constrictive global nuclear supply regime have left Iran little other option but to buy nuclear materials in the shadow. The country has built a clandestine global network of front companies and […]
New Study Suggests Air Travel Greener Than Cars
A new analysis from Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, offers a surprising conclusion about which is a greener mode of transport: airplanes or cars? Notably, Sivak found that driving today […]
Apple’s ResearchKit Apps To Require Ethics Board Review
In addition to launching a set of shiny new watches and a razor-thin MacBook in the last couple of months Apple has also unveiled an open-source medical research framework called ResearchKit to go along with […]
Facebook Complains About EU Pressure To Be Accountable For Privacy
Facebook’s sizable EU lobby, headed by Richard Allan, has taken out advertising in leading newspapers this morning to complain about “multiple” EU nations digging around the network’s data slurping business practices. The company’s complaint is […]
First Approved Bitcoin Bank Launches in New York Next Month
Bitcoin will officially be part of the mainstream financial world next month when New York State’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) publishes a regulatory framework governing the virtual currency. The move will allow virtual currency […]
Rand Paul Snuggles Up To Big Corporations In Presidential Bid
U.S. presidential hopeful Rand Paul (R-KY) has filed a motion under the Congressional Review Act to block the introduction of the Democrat-driven net neutrality rules. Paul, who often portrays himself as a libertarian and someone […]
Apple Destroyed Thousands Of Watches Over Manufacturing Glitch
Reports emerged Thursday that Apple scrapped a whole batch of Apple Watches after finding a fault with the watch’s vibrating ‘Taptic Engine’. According to the Wall Street Journal, “people familiar with the matter” said that […]
Confusion As New Evidence Emerges That Freddie Gray May Have Hurt Himself
Two new accounts of what happened to Freddie Gray question the narrative of police brutality that has fueled protests in Baltimore, it emerged Thursday morning. The first new evidence comes from a relative of one […]
North Korea’s Young Leader Can’t Leave Country
Things are not well at home for North Korea’s rotund boy leader, according to a release by the hermit kingdom. According to a press release the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has backed out […]
Russia To Resume Long Range Bomber Production
New reports suggest that the Russian military plans to continue the modernization of its long-range bomber fleet and will consider restarting production of its Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic bomber, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed Wednesday. The […]
U.S. Forces Conducting Daily Afghan Airstrikes Despite White House Pledge
Months after President Obama declared that the United States’ long war against the Taliban was over in Afghanistan, reports came to light this week showing the American military is regularly conducting airstrikes against low-level insurgent […]
Rubella Declared Eradicated From Americas
In a landmark achievement, North and South America have become the first regions of the world to eradicate rubella, also known as German measles, after zero home-grown cases were reported in the last five years. […]
Al Jazeera America Accused Of Running Anti-Semitic and Anti-American Newsroom
With online media increasingly becoming the propaganda arm of nation-states, revelations about middle east media giant Al Jazeera which surfaced on Wednesday cast a shadow over the aspiring network. A fired Al Jazeera America employee […]
Software Giant Salesforce Defending Itself From Hostile Takeover
In a sign of just how hot things are in the cloud software space Salesforce, a company worth $44 billion, has hired financial advisers to field takeover offers Bloomberg has reported. It’s unknown who the […]
HBO And Showtime Sue Over Crimes Yet To Be Committed
HBO and Showtime are no stranger to online piracy. Their TV-shows are pirated millions of times each month. Yet they haven’t been known to go after sites that host their content illegally yet the upcoming […]
Russia Seizes Ukrainian President’s Candy Factory
In the latest belligerent move by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Russian authorities have seized the assets of a candy factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Russian city of Lipetsk. The move is […]
Uber Launching Massive Same Day Delivery Network
Taxi smartphone app Uber is planning a major push into the same day delivery business, according to leaked training documents. The merchant delivery program that would enable online shoppers to get same-day delivery of goods […]
Russian Nuclear Agency Wants To Triple Iranian Nuclear Capacity
Russia continues to interfere with world peace as revelations emerged that the deputy head of Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom met with the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization for talks about a power […]
Former Fed Chairman Joins Another Hedge Fund
In what is surely a conflict of interest, as shown by the fact his lawyers vetted and structured the arrangement, former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is joining bond giant Pimco as a senior advisor. […]
Massive Forest Fire Could Turn Radioactive
Around 400 hectares of woodland is on fire in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, according to reports from Russian media. While the Ukrainian government claims the fire is “contained,” experts fear the mass burning of […]
Google To Fund Movies, Youtube Channels To Stay Relevant
Netflix, Hulu, Roku, HBO Go and specialist sites like Vevo are all taking a chunk out of Youtube, the once massive online video website. Even Facebook and industry laggard Yahoo are getting a piece of […]
Justice Department Investigating Town That Preys On Its Poor
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said that it was investigating the rural Louisiana town of Ville Platte, specifically the police department and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office. It is looking into allegations that […]
Anger Grows Over Disney Use Of Foreign Workers
Near the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to be told of their layoffs. At each meeting an executive read from a script […]
Saudis Bomb Yemeni Airport To Prevent Iran Arms Shipment
A Saudi-led coalition carried out at least seven separate airstrikes on the Yemen international airport on Tuesday, crippling the airport in order to prevent an Iranian airplane from landing, according to both Saudi and Yemeni […]
One Arrested As 60 Black Teens Rampage Through Charleston Streets
As many as 60 teens were prowling Charleston streets, randomly attacking pedestrians and drivers early Sunday, witnesses told dispatchers in 911 calls released Tuesday. All the teens were black, according to witnesses, and all of […]