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
AUSTIN, Texas–The Child Protective Services (CPS) Division of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) released the second of two reports that were created as part of an “Operational Assessment” conducted by The Stephens Group (TSG), a consulting
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has today announced his party’s pledge to local democracy, ensuring that decisions take place at a micro-level, rather than at a national level. Farage also backed the use of referenda over contentious national issues, stating that
Long rumoured and long delayed, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos finally announced a smartphone: the Amazon Fire. The Fire phone joins Amazon’s growing tech lineup including Fire HD tablets and Fire TV. Amazon? The book store company now sells a full line
Pro-Russians in east Ukraine rejected President Petro Poroshenko’s truce and engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian troops early Thursday morning near Krasny Liman. “We issued an ultimatum to the terrorists overnight to surrender their weapons. We guarantee their safety and
Ben Brogan, the Deputy Editor of the Telegraph who is rumoured to have been sacked in today’s mass clear out at the paper, has cancelled a lunchtime speaking engagement. Brogan was due to chair a session at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on
The British government is allowed to perform mass surveillance of Britons’ social media and email accounts because the servers are based abroad, a security tribunal has heard. The Daily Mirror reports that Security and Counter-Terrorism chief Charles Farr said the
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition on June 16th by Argentina to stop a group of its sovereign bondholders from foreclosing on Argentine assets in the U.S. The decision effectively ends five years of legal battles in U.S. courts.
This article originally appeared in City Journal Silicon Valley innovators love to talk about “disruptive innovation,” the iconic phrase coined by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. But today, the innovators’ dilemma–to borrow from Christensen again–is how best to confront disruptive regulation from Washington, D.C.
The news just keeps going from bad to worse for President Obama and disgraced former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner, thanks in large part to Judicial Watch’s investigative work. JW has been instrumental in uncovering evidence of Lerner’s
Mary Barra, the embattled CEO of General Motors, currently embroiled in a recall scandal, is also on the Board of NSA surveillance contractor General Dynamics. Specifically, General Dynamics is the contractor helping the NSA process recorded phone calls going in and
The Guardian published a little something from Owen Jones on Sunday evening on the back of all of this talk about ‘British values’. His article entitled, “Sorry, David Cameron, but your British history is not mine” discusses the differences between
Russia gas company Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine, which could affect Europe. Russia provides gas to Europe and the majority of the pipelines flow through Ukraine. “Regarding transit risks (to the EU), they exist and they are not insignificant,”
TrackingPoint has developed ShotView, an app that allows shooters to use Google Glass to aim at targets around corners. This system will enable soldiers to aim and shoot, simultaneously “protecting them from return fire.” According to RT.com, TrackingPoint describes a
I’ve been reflecting on the recent tour de force developer conference held by Apple: the WWDC. CEO Tim Cook and his team presented a sweeping overhaul of the software systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Since Steve
This summer one woman is offering a new kind of kids’ summer camp. While some youngsters are crafting, playing sports, or honing their science skills, the kids at Camp CEO Kids will be dreaming up products, making them reality, and
