The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, lauded by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at its opening last February, is having problems matching the initial boasts of how much electricity it would produce. Given a $1.6 billion
The Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners announced Wednesday that they have issued a zero tolerance policy on all electronic wearable devices with video recording capability inside of movie theaters. According to PC World,
Further information has been established about New York City ax attacker Zale Thompson, suggesting that the man who tried to kill two police officers was a left-wing radical who hated white people, in addition to possessing well-documented Islamist sympathies and
Although lousy quarterly earnings would result in lower stock prices for most companies, shareholders gave Amazon a pass for over a decade as the high-tech company rapidly grew top-line sales to become America’s Everything Store. But in a year when
Texas is using a secret ingredient to fight any future Ebola cases. Here are a few clues: it is red, probably in many kitchens in the South, and spicy. The ingredient is Tabasco sauce. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Russell Brand – soap-dodger, lech, former husband of the infinitely more talented Katy Perry – is the most irritating person on earth. This much we knew. But I don’t think any of us realised just HOW irritating till his most
HOUSTON, Texas — Wendy Davis supporters are so desperate to show support among young voters they allegedly stole a photo of a group of Virginia College Republicans and claimed they voted for Davis. Davis then re-tweeted the photo and said
TechCrunch reports that the Amazon Rewards Visa Card has joined Visa, MasterCard and American Express in accepting Apple Pay for credit card transactions. Although some were surprised that Amazon would do business with Apple’s “closed garden,” Chase Bank is already working with
Who would have thought that taxis would become the vector for much of the biggest issues facing modern politics? Migration, globalism, societal breakdown, identity… sexual abuse is just one of them. We see the skirmishes between London Hackney Cabs and
In a column at Bloomberg Politics, David Weigel expresses some amazement that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), a “safe Democratic governor,” would join conservatives in the war against the Common Core standards. But, in fact, Cuomo, who has been a staunch
A Tokyo court has ordered Facebook to disclose the IP addresses used by fake accounts that were posting revenge porn, a lawyer said Tuesday, in the first such case in Japan. In response to the order the US-based social networking
Hard-line leftists in San Francisco took a double body-blow last Tuesday, as Ted Gullicksen, 61, the executive director of the San Francisco Tenants Union, died on the same day that the voice of the leftist movement, the San Francisco Bay
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick released a new television commercial attacking his opponent, State Senator and Democratic nominee Leticia Van de Putte, as being one of “the most liberal politicians in Texas.” The ad highlights
The Hill said it over four days ago, “Ebola has become the October surprise of this year’s midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans doing battle over everything from restrictions on travel to the disposal of a victim’s remains.” ABC followed
Editor’s Note: This story appeared in today’s edition of The Daily Beast. Readers may be familiar with the tragic story of Katie Piper, a British woman who survived a similar horrific attack. Sara, 21 years old, lives in the historic
Ebola patients in West Africa are isolated as they recover, but the isolation does not stop there. Villages and communities shun the survivors due to the stigma of the disease. Liberia’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare told citizens to
Although the British Council has already blocked all School visits to and from Ebola outbreak countries, a British school has gone one step further by postponing a planned visit by a Ghanaian teacher after a group of parents raised concerns,
A new app that lets medical marijuana patients in the Bay Area tap a few buttons on their phone to receive high-quality medicine at their door hit the Google Play Store this week. The app, called “Meadow,” is the latest
This article originally appeared in The Atlantic. When I recently asked Sam Harris what he thought of the word ‘Islamophobia,’ he directed me to a tweet that noted the following: “Islamophobia. A word created by fascists, & used by cowards, to manipulate
First Lady Michelle Obama was praising her husband’s handling of the economy today as the Dow Jones Industrial Average began plunging. The First Lady spoke at a Grassroots campaign event for Tom Wolf, a Democratic candidate for governor in Pennsylvania.
In an effort to protect taxpayers from wasteful spending, conservative elected officials over the years have embraced a number of good ideas for cutting public spending. We have an especially strong tradition in this regard in Indiana, from Indianapolis Mayor
The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus
Five months after the landmark ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union ordering Google to remove links to webpages in a “right to be forgotten”, Google has released data on the more than 142,000 requests received from
Even with the extravagant, all-expenses-paid parties, consumer electronics companies and games developers don’t hand out cash enough to pay the rent, whinges GameJournoPros founder Kyle Orland in another tranche of leaked emails from the game industry’s private mailing list. The
Since there is nothing more self-righteous than an addict who just got out of rehab, it was not surprising that Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith at a Silicon Valley panel discussion on NSA surveillance would say, “You own your data.
