A Foreign Policy report suggests the United States is currently “laying the groundwork” for cyber warfare against North Korea as an alternative method of neutralizing the rogue communist regime.
byBen Kew19 Feb 2018, 5:34 PM PST0
The prestigious Yale University is introducing a course this semester on the various methods of counteracting “whiteness.”
byTom Ciccotta19 Feb 2018, 12:59 PM PST0
Tech-savvy parents are using big tech’s new A.I. systems — Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant — as surrogate babysitters. But what happens when children start viewing these bias-ridden systems as authority figures?
byMarlene Jaeckel19 Feb 2018, 12:43 PM PST0
Facebook will reportedly begin sending postcards to the addresses of potential political ad buyers to confirm that they reside in the U.S. following the controversy around Russian ad purchases.
byLucas Nolan19 Feb 2018, 12:41 PM PST0
A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a fight broke out over a passenger who allegedly could not stop passing gas.
byKatherine Rodriguez19 Feb 2018, 12:12 PM PST0
A driver for Uber’s food delivery service Uber Eats allegedly fatally shot a customer in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday before fleeing.
byCharlie Nash19 Feb 2018, 10:58 AM PST0
A student protester at Portland State University tried to derail an event featuring ex-Google employee James Damore by attacking the venue’s sound system.
byTom Ciccotta19 Feb 2018, 10:10 AM PST0
Like Peter Thiel, who recently moved from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles after facing repeated attacks from far-left activists, many tech workers are starting to “feel alienated” by Silicon Valley’s left-wing echo chamber according to the Wall Street Journal.
byCharlie Nash19 Feb 2018, 9:59 AM PST0
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have invented a smartphone device that could help to prevent food poisoning.
byLucas Nolan19 Feb 2018, 9:48 AM PST0
Free speech platform Quillette recently published an opinion piece titled “Thinking Critically About Social Justice” which discussed the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the case of former Google engineer James Damore.
byLucas Nolan19 Feb 2018, 9:35 AM PST0
Apple’s recent update for the iPhone removed Easter Sunday from some users’ calendars, prompting consumer complaints.
byCharlie Nash19 Feb 2018, 9:30 AM PST0
Sometimes the internet has to work hard to turn a cringe-worthy, meme-laden, moment of social media mockery, into a trending sensation.
byDylan Gwinn19 Feb 2018, 7:17 AM PST0
Facebook Vice President Ron Goldman tweeted Friday that the Russian ad buys on the popular social media platform were not to sway the outcome of the election, contrary what to media coverage was suggesting.
byKristina Wong18 Feb 2018, 6:46 PM PST0
In contrast to the media narrative, most Russian ad buys occurred post-election with the intent to “divide America, said the Facebook VP.
byAllum Bokhari18 Feb 2018, 9:28 AM PST0
“The Fake News of big ratings loser CNN,” Trump wrote, retweeting a cartoon image of an old Wolf Blitzer searching for evidence of Russian collusion.
byCharlie Spiering18 Feb 2018, 9:19 AM PST0
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reportedly engaged in a series of coordinated cyber warfare tactics to spy on, police, and arrest the Iranian people to secure its theocracy.
byAdelle Nazarian18 Feb 2018, 1:42 AM PST0
A South Carolina teacher is accused of sexual misconduct after police busted her for being half-naked while in a car with a student.
byKatherine Rodriguez17 Feb 2018, 5:04 PM PST0
A Florida middle school teacher who was named Teacher of the Year at her school said that parents need to “step up” and control their kids’ behavior.
byKatherine Rodriguez17 Feb 2018, 1:23 PM PST0
Online retail giant Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns the Washington Post, has settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for $1.2 million after an agency investigation revealed the company was selling illegal pesticides.
byPenny Starr17 Feb 2018, 8:14 AM PST0
The National Labor Relations Board has concluded that tech giant Google did not violate any labor laws by firing James Damore.
byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 3:26 PM PST0
A new proposal calling for greater transparency surrounding the sponsors of online politicals advertisements will be considered by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) next month.
byCharlie Nash16 Feb 2018, 2:59 PM PST0
Popular black YouTube star Sky Williams pointed out the hypocrisy of YouTube after the company encouraged people to “subscribe to black creators,” during Black History Month.
byCharlie Nash16 Feb 2018, 2:47 PM PST0
Facebook has come under fire for their two-factor authentication process which sends users notifications via text message and posts replies on their Facebook wall, instead of merely acting as a layer of security.
byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 2:15 PM PST0
Top-tier venture capitalist Peter Thiel is ditching the intolerance of Silicon Valley and moving himself and his personal investment arm to Los Angeles for better business opportunities.
byChriss W. Street16 Feb 2018, 12:00 PM PST0
Reporter-model Becky Griffin took to Twitter on Thursday and responded to Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by insinuating that alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz wouldn’t have carried out mass murder if his mother had aborted him instead of putting him up for adoption.
byJerome Hudson16 Feb 2018, 11:24 AM PST0
An American Studies professor at Cornell University argued that the American Dream is a now a “hallucination.”
byTom Ciccotta16 Feb 2018, 10:34 AM PST0
Image-sharing social media platform Instagram has caved to pressure from the Russian government to restrict access to posts relating to opposition party leader Alexei Navalny.
byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 10:28 AM PST0
The President of Evergreen State College announced this week that the college is predicting a 20 percent drop in enrollment for the upcoming fall semester.
byTom Ciccotta16 Feb 2018, 10:21 AM PST0
According to a new report, the gunman behind the recent shooting at a school in Florida took an Uber to the school the day of the shooting.
byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 9:01 AM PST0
The FBI was reportedly alerted to a threat posted on YouTube by Nikolas Cruz five months ago — but the bureau was unable to track down Cruz despite him having used his real name on the site when he allegedly made the threats.
byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 7:44 AM PST0
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explained the left-wing origins of the term “fake news” that rose to prominence during the 2016 election at a recent TEDx talk.
byLucas Nolan15 Feb 2018, 11:11 AM PST0
Google has responded to a lawsuit brought against them by Prager University claiming that YouTube violates the First Amendment by censoring conservatives, but their response does not address censorship or the reasoning behind restricting and demonetizing PragerU and other conservatives.
byLucas Nolan15 Feb 2018, 10:43 AM PST0
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for his “Problem of Whiteness” course is facing criticism again for his new course on the relationship between social justice and hip-hop.
byTom Ciccotta15 Feb 2018, 10:24 AM PST0
A male student at Dartmouth College is facing a significant backlash to an op-ed he wrote in a student newspaper criticizing a campus program that hires mostly female students.
byTom Ciccotta15 Feb 2018, 9:15 AM PST0
Hollywood actress Natalie Portman claimed it was ‘problematic’ that she was cast as a character described as being of ‘Asian heritage’ in Paramount upcoming sci-fi adventure movie ‘Annihilation.’
byCharlie Nash15 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM PST0
Evergreen State College is introducing a new course in the upcoming fall semester on the importance of engaging with diverse political viewpoints.
byTom Ciccotta15 Feb 2018, 8:53 AM PST0
Popular video game streaming website Twitch has surpassed both CNN and MSNBC for the number of monthly viewers in January.
byLucas Nolan15 Feb 2018, 8:47 AM PST0
Conservative political operative Ali A. Akbar met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this week to discuss the future of conservatives on the social media platform.
byCharlie Nash15 Feb 2018, 8:39 AM PST0
Billionaire venture capitalist and noted conservative Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley for Los Angeles, according to the Wall Street Journal, amidst a continuing backlash against his support of President Donald Trump.
byJoel B. Pollak15 Feb 2018, 6:45 AM PST0
The Chinese Party-State has been hard at work constructing a network of propaganda outposts — called Confucius Institutes or Confucius Classrooms – on the campuses of universities, colleges, and secondary schools around the world.
bySteven Mosher14 Feb 2018, 2:01 PM PST0
Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Duke University, -argued in a recent lecture a “shocking” amount of libertarians are on the “autism spectrum.”
byTom Ciccotta14 Feb 2018, 1:42 PM PST0
Dartmouth professor of government Brendan Nyhan published an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that the power of fake news and social media bots is massively overblown.
byLucas Nolan14 Feb 2018, 1:04 PM PST0
The heads of six major intelligence organizations including the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA have warned Americans not to use Huawei and ZTE phones
byLucas Nolan14 Feb 2018, 12:04 PM PST0
Harvard University is offering a new graduate course on the role of feces in French literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
byTom Ciccotta14 Feb 2018, 11:49 AM PST0
Google is creating an artificial intelligence-based automatic reply system, which will give users personalized, but automated answers to respond to messages with just one click.
byCharlie Nash14 Feb 2018, 11:42 AM PST0
