There was some pretty wild talk coming out of Amazon a while back about using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver packages. It turns out Google wants to play too, and is already has a drone test program well under way.
AUBURN – Last year fans chanted “Amanda” over and over to celebrate coach Andy Enfield and his wife and former Maxim swimsuit cover Amanda Marcum making the Sweet 16. This week Auburn fans started the first week of FOOTBALL by
Public affairs firm Bell Pottinger has failed to see the funny side of a satirical jibe at their expense. The Pan-Arabia Enquirer, whose strapline reads ‘Spreading the hummous of satire over the flatbread of news’ was forced to remove an
Following accusations that Europe’s new executive commission is “mostly being men from right-wing parties”, the new President of Europe has warned member nations to reconsider their commissioner nominations. Female commissioners would take top priority for the more prestigious jobs such
In a triumph for climate change, four hundred pairs of Google Glass were ruined instantly yesterday when the heavens opened above Reno, Nevada, causing the Burning Man festival to be shut down. Burning Man is an annual gathering of some of
SpaceX suffered its first missile failure when one of their F9R rockets aborted its mission and auto-destructed over Texas shortly after takeoff on August 22. One observer video shows debris falling from the sky just after the explosion. No one was hurt
On Monday, a Rasmussen poll showed that a full 57 percent of black Americans believe that Officer Darren Wilson ought to be found guilty of murder for his shooting of unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown. Meanwhile, 56 percent of
In a few short months, I will be out of elected office. When I ran for Governor, I knew it was “win or go home.” So, I will soon be an ordinary citizen again–and soon enough, I too, will be
Breitbart Sports unveils the most comprehensive database of the values of college basketball players available, allowing the reader to access all 4,250 players in Google Docs by clicking on the master scholarship table. For each team you can view the projected
With all the talk of militarized police flying around these days, and the name of Robocop frequently invoked (or his image dragged into Photoshop tomfoolery) in criticism of the police response to the Ferguson riots, this seemed like a good
A black flag hanging above the porch of a New Jersey man’s home, caused consternation and concern among people in his neighborhood and beyond, earlier this week. The flag, emblazoned with the words, “there is no God but Allah” is
AUSTIN, Texas — Planned Parenthood has launched a new series of web ads attacking Republican candidate for Texas Governor Greg Abbott that echo a controversial ad by his Democratic opponent, Wendy Davis. The ads began appearing on websites that run
Prominent Jewish group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has sent a letter to France’s interior minister to demand that a tiny hamlet south of Paris called “La Mort aux Juifs”, or “Death to Jews”, be renamed. The group’s director of international
The stunning August 8th rejection by federal court Judge Lucy Koh of a $400 million settlement of claims against Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel Corporations for conspiring to hold down employee wages sent shudders through corporations in Silicon Valley and across
The New York Times reports that Judge Lucy H. Koh of the United States District Court in San Jose rejected a proposed settlement in a class action suit against Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe, saying that it wasn’t enough to
David Cameron is under fire for giving a peerage to Joanna Shields, a former Facebook and Google executive under whose tenure ferociously aggressive tax planning was the order of the day. Under Shields’s direction, both technology companies sidestepped hundreds of millions
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and other “free commons” websites, is trying to organize a crowdsourced viral movement on the web to overturn Europe Court of Justice’s “right to be forgotten” ruling that gives private individuals the right to request
When I was a teen, I used to see the VHS copy of Picnic at Hanging Rock at our local version of Blockbuster, called Captain Video. I would stare at the alluring cover — featuring young girls in white dresses —
“There’s a kind of romance with Nigeria and [with] bad news,” a Lagos resident tells the Christian Science Monitor. “Are we making Nigeria… from a Boko Haram country to a[n] Ebola country?” The dual threat is on many of the
Google is facing criticism after a series of violent games based on the conflict in Gaza appeared in its Play app store. Games such as ‘Bomb Gaza’, ‘Gaza Assault: Code Red’ and ‘Whack the Hamas’ are available to download onto
Goldman Sachs and a group of top tier investment banks are about to buy Silicon Valley’s Perzo to directly compete with Bloomberg LP, their current vendor for institutional trader interface and messaging. Facing annual license costs per terminal of over
The so-called war on women morphed into the war on Asian Women if they happen to be married to a Republican thanks to a Democrat operative working against Mitch McConnell in in Kentucky. “Google Elaine Chao, #MitchMcConnell’s wife,” Groob tweeted
CAIRO, Egypt– Yesterday Hamas violated a ceasefire brokered by Secretary Kerry and the UN 90 minutes after it began. A Hamas suicide bomber killed 2 Israeli soldiers and kidnapped IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23 years old. Israel responded by escalating attacks against Hamas in Gaza, targeting
With questions posed from BBC’s Kevin Rawlinson like “Can a lone blogger bring down a business? … In the online age, do bloggers wield too much power? … Or does the internet’s promise of freedom of speech trump businesses’ need for a way to
The lower chamber of the Spanish parliament has passed a controversial law, nicknamed the “Google tax,” which will allow members of the Spanish newspaper association to demand fees from aggregators such as Google News for posting links to their articles.
