Americans keep hoping for a robust recovery — one that delivers better paying jobs and decent returns on retirement savings. Changes in technology and the economy may require that never happens, and government efforts to improve conditions often multiply the
Hashtags concerning Gaza and Palestine for Twitter such as #GazaUnderAttack are very active with pictures of dead children, crumbled buildings, women crying, and people without limbs. But a quick Google search of said images find these people are using old
Both Arabs and Jews recently confronted the wanton murder of children. How each society responded to those heart-breaking events tells us a great deal about the cultural divide between them and why the idea that negotiations could bridge that separation
Search “Chase and LGBT” on the Internet, and you will see the controversial Chase employee survey on LGBT dominates the results. Moreover, the issue shows no signs of abating. A Chase employee who reached out to Professor Robert George of
Salon is not quite beyond parody as this excellent parody Twitter account demonstrates. On the other hand it gets harder every day to distinguish the real site from the jokes. Case in point, an article published today proposing that Google
Silicon Valley in northern California remained the center of the earth for venture capital in the second quarter of 2014 according to PitchBook data. Of the $21.6 billion of venture capital (VC) investment worldwide, $9 billion, or 41.6%, went into
One bit of evidence I presented in May, to back up the contention that the Obama Administration is unwise to cede Internet control to an international body, was the creation of a “right to be forgotten” by Europe’s highest court.
From 1957 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Staatssicherheit–or Stasi–was the most feared and effective intelligence agency, operating as the “sword and shield” and striking fear into the hearts of East Germans. Their omnipresent network of both employees
Tech’s big four – Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon – all focus on software and developers this time of year. First was Microsoft’s BUILD conference back in April, but in June we’ve had Apple’s WWDC, Amazon’s Fire and just last
The British government may ban “revenge porn” – where people post explicit pictures of their ex-partner online to humiliate them, according to the Daily Mail. The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling confirmed that the government was looking to take ‘appropriate action’
One question has been cautiously whispered for some time now in Westminster: How Jewish is Ed Miliband? He’s always bringing it up when convenient for him, but then he goes and scoffs a bacon sarnie in front of the nation’s
On June 30, Reason.com ran an article showing that Google’s proposed changes for banned firearm ads would include toy gun ads. According to Reason, Google’s proposed bans would include not only real guns but also “functioning antique guns, airsoft guns,
As Silicon Valley expands from the Internet of people to the Internet of Things, the failure of Detroit and Google to form a partnership to build self-driving cars is an instructive tale regarding the challenges Silicon Valley and industrial America
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — IAC/InterActiveCorp has suspended a co-founder of its popular dating app Tinder in the wake of a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a female executive of the company. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior
After the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on June 10 voted 4 to 1 to put a popular initiative to eliminate public employee defined-benefit pensions on the ballot, a coalition of public employee unions filed suit to prevent the initiative
If you plan on catching the latest blockbuster at any cinema in the United Kingdom, you’ll want to leave your Google Glass at home. Just days after Google announced that its wearable heads-up information display technology was arriving in the
Although MannKind Corporation (MNKD) finally won its decade-long fight for FDA approval to sell its Afrezza insulin therapy system in the U.S, most investors are disappointed that the powered drug inhaler must carry a warning label that it is not
Thousands of people congregated in celebration of the nation’s largest transgender pride event in San Francisco on Friday and to prepare for weekend-long festivities for the 44th annual LGBT Pride Parade. The 11th annual “Trans March” reportedly kicked off at
Beginning in September, Google plans to block firearm, ammunition, and gun accessory ads. According to Google Support’s “Dangerous Products or Services” page, the company “[wants] to keep people safe both online and offline, so [they] won’t allow the promotion of
Sergei Glazyev, a senior advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the BBC that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is a Nazi and his endorsement of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is illegitimate. “Europe is trying to push Ukraine to sign this
Google announced yesterday that it will enter the domain name marketplace. With the release of over 1400 new top level domains, like .vote, .guru and .coffee, Google will be a competitor with companies also in the domain registration business that
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 25 (UPI) — Facebook released a report of its workforce diversity, which shows that the company is male dominated, a trend seen across Silicon Valley tech companies. This is the first time the social network has
President Barack Obama used the power of his Executive Office “pen” Wednesday morning to allow the U.S. Commerce Department to issue a ruling that all but terminates a four-decade Congressional restriction against exporting U.S. domestically produced crude oil. The new
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists staged an “Occupy Google” protest Wednesday evening to push the Internet giant to embrace the cause of “net neutrality,” which would allow the government to regulate the rates charged and bandwidth provided by
Limited edition Diane von Furstenberg Google Glass has finally gone on sale on fashion websites Net-A-Porter.com and MrPorter.com, enabling anticipatory and interested consumers to wear their smart technology in style. Google Glass goers can now purchase the spectacles in male or
