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iTech Addiction, Danger and Damage--Mari Swingle, Author iMinds: Transcript Part 1
OpEdNews - 10 Feb 2016 01:20
How excessive use and interaction with iDevices is exacerbating disconnection, autism, normal functions, damaging ability to have normal relationships... for all three generations of iTech users
Time Warner shares slump after revenue misses expectations
New York Post - 10 Feb 2016 17:31
Time Warner, the owner of cable channels CNN and HBO and movie studio Warner Bros, raised its 2016 adjusted profit forecast and set a $5 billion share buyback program. The New York-based company, whose fourth-quarter pro...
A New Survey Challenges the Official Report on Mexico's 43 Missing Students
Time - 10 Feb 2016 05:06
The government has maintained that they were killed and their bodies burned
The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New Yorker - 10 Feb 2016 20:15
Last Monday, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, of Lincoln Center, held its fiftieth-anniversary gala at the N.Y.P.L. mothership, at Forty-second and Fifth. The gala honored the L.P.A.'s benefactors Lew...
Fact check: Trump wildly inflates unemployment
USA Today - 10 Feb 2016 08:16
Donald Trump said he "heard" the unemployment rate was really 42%. It's not.
HSBC sued by families of victims in drug money laundering case
Reuters - 10 Feb 2016 06:06
(Reuters) - HSBC has been sued by the families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico, claiming the bank let cartels launder billions of dollars to operate their business.
New York City Protest Planned Against Beyoncé's Super Bowl Halftime Performance
Time - 10 Feb 2016 05:57
Anonymous event organizers say the star's dance routine was a 'slap in the face' to law enforcement
HK to investigate police warning shots
BBC - 10 Feb 2016 05:20
Hong Kong police say they will hold an inquiry after an officer fired two warning shots during clashes over food stall clearances in Mong Kok.
FBI Still Can't Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's Encrypted Cellphone
Time - 10 Feb 2016 02:54
"We are still working on it"
Apple Pay experiencing lengthy outage with adding Visa debit and credit cards
9 to 5 Mac - 10 Feb 2016 16:19Rescue caught on tape of refugee who survived deadly boat sinking
New York Post - 10 Feb 2016 14:54
The Turkish Coast Guard has released a gripping video of a Syrian migrant being rescued after his boat sank - killing 27 people, including at least 11 children. Pelen Hussein, 20, is seen standing on the top of the capsi...
Body of 22-year-old found in Walmart lot may have been there for months
Fox News - 10 Feb 2016 16:17
The body of a 22-year-old California girl was discovered in the parking lot of a Salinas, Calf., Walmart last week and investigators said Tuesday that it appears her body went unnoticed for three months.
Apple could face a lawsuit
USA Today - 10 Feb 2016 14:23Police Arrest Taiwanese Developer Who Built Apartments Destroyed in Earthquake
Time - 10 Feb 2016 06:24
39 people died in the collapse of the building, with many more feared trapped in the rubble
This year's best Android phones still might not be as fast as last year's iPhone 6s
BGR - 10 Feb 2016 16:57
We've said it countless times before and we'll likely say it dozens of times more in the coming years: specs and benchmark test results on paper only tell part of the story. There's no telling how a smartphone will perfo...
Faraday Future's plan to build a car factory in Nevada may have hit a $1 billion roadblock
Business Insider - 10 Feb 2016 16:50
Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP Images for Faraday Future Electric-car company Faraday Future and the state of Nevada appear to be hitting some gridlock. The two entities announced an agreement late last year to build Faraday Futur...
Republicans are fuming about Obama's record-setting $4.1 trillion budget
Business Insider - 10 Feb 2016 05:35
AP With little political capital remaining on Capitol Hill, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled the final budget proposal of his administration – a largely aspirational, record $4.1 trillion plan including hundreds of ...
Threat of Starvation Haunts Aleppo as Syrian Government Forces Advance
Time - 10 Feb 2016 04:17
The U.N. says hundreds of thousands could be cut off from humanitarian aid as a siege tightens
Gadgetwise: Streamlining the Universal Remote Device
The New York Times - 10 Feb 2016 23:58
Many so-called universal remotes are hard to set up, and bury important commands in a remote screen's submenus.
One of the most reliable recession indicators may no longer be reliable
Business Insider - 10 Feb 2016 16:56
Wikimedia Economists have long sought to find the magical indicators that foretell an economic recession. After crunching through all the data, some have argued that there two indicators that stand above the rest: the yi...
Billionaire Steve Cohen bankrolled ads slamming John Kasich for being a Wall Street banker
Business Insider - 10 Feb 2016 16:53
REUTERS/Steve Marcus Here is a bit of a look into where all this Wall Street political money is going. Up to last night's primary, political ads slamming presidential candidate John Kasich for his time working at Lehman...
T. Boone Pickens thinks Obama's oil tax is the 'dumbest idea ever'
Business Insider - 10 Feb 2016 16:42
Reuters/ Fred Prouser The Obama administration’s proposed $10.25 per barrel oil tax adds up to approximately $32 billion a year, and critics are coming out of the woodwork in defense of both the oil industry and end us...