
Americans are accustomed to the dominance of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as search engines, but on the global stage, a Chinese service called Baidu is now second only to Google in popularity.
by John Hayward5 Jan 2015, 9:57 PM PST0

Last Spring, Breitbart Texas reported on a new teacher climate survey pushed through the 83rd legislative session called “Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning” or TELL Texas. In August, Texas Education Agency (TEA) statistics revealed that only about 20 percent of
by Merrill Hope5 Dec 2014, 5:47 AM PST0

My former Kernel colleague James Cook, Business Insider‘s intrepid European tech reporter, published a list of the “coolest” women in the UK technology industry this week. But I think he’s missed a trick. I mean, “cool” is such a subjective, nebulous thing,
by Jeremy Wilson2 Dec 2014, 6:15 AM PST0

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers believed to be loosely affiliated with the Syrian government, launched a Thanksgiving day widespread cyber attack on major news sites, including the Los Angeles Times, UK Daily Telegraph, Forbes, and others. The
by Jordan Schachtel28 Nov 2014, 12:25 PM PST0

Silicon Valley and technology leaders were left wanting more after Obama’s Thursday evening declaration of sweeping executive expansion of legal status for approximately five million illegal aliens. Despite the mass expansion, high-skilled workers seeking visas and green cards, along with
by Michelle Moons22 Nov 2014, 3:29 PM PST0

If you’re planning on nefarious activity at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus, think again; Microsoft has installed security guards around the grounds that are robots 5 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds. Knightscope manufactured the robots, sans weapons, but they do
by William Bigelow22 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Friday at the The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said President Barack Obama’s executive action amnesty is not putting the American worker first saying, “The average working truck driver is just as important as Mr. Zuckerberg.” Sessions said, “It’s time
by Breitbart TV21 Nov 2014, 10:40 AM PST0

A Silicon Valley-based startup has developed a five-foot tall, burly-bodied robotic security guard, that resembles a Dalek, and has already deployed a fleet of five of them to patrol Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Knightscope masterminded the creation of the K5, according to Gizmodo,
by Adelle Nazarian19 Nov 2014, 3:42 PM PST0

Hours after pulling off Romania’s biggest political earthquake since the revolution which overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu, the country’s soft-spoken new president followed through Monday on his vow to tackle corruption. Klaus Iohannis, the ethnic German mayor of the medieval Transylvanian city
by Breitbart News17 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Hefty tax breaks enjoyed by sports franchise owners allows for the new Los Angeles Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer to save about 50% of his recent purchase price. Ballmer bought the Clippers after Donald Sterling was relieved of his duties in
by Robert Wilde17 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
If memory serves correctly, the first random access storage device I seriously considered purchasing, as a preteen with some odd-job money to fuel his insatiable appetite for high technology, was a floppy disk drive that stored 128K per disk. (Gather
by John Hayward10 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

The tech industry is pressuring the White House to quickly enact President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. Linda Moore, the chief executive of TechNet, which has called for more high-tech visas and amnesty legislation on behalf of many Silicon Valley
by Tony Lee9 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
Politico tries to sum up what we may have learned from the 2014 mid-term elections. This gem somewhat stands out, even if it isn’t surprising — “… equal-sized majorities of yesterday’s electorate held unfavorable views of each party.” What may be
by Dan Riehl5 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science purged thousands of “unsuitable” school textbooks from schools, eliminating the business of many of the nation’s book publishers. The purge is raising eyebrows, as the only company unaffected is the Soviet-era publisher Enlightenment, owned
by Mary Chastain3 Nov 2014, 8:01 AM PST0

Al-Qaeda leaders have called on Mujahideen fighters to launch attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Gibraltar and other choke points, strategic waterways through which 75 percent of all global trade passes every year in a mission which strongly
by Oliver Lane28 Oct 2014, 3:32 AM PST0

A Silicon Valley tech company that reportedly made $200 million last quarter was importing foreign workers from India and paying them $1.21 an hour. According to the Labor Department, “about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging [EFI] were flown
by Tony Lee24 Oct 2014, 6:55 PM PST0

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen said Thursday he was boosting his donations to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to $100 million. Allen, who has made earlier donations to the health effort, said his latest pledge would include
by Breitbart News24 Oct 2014, 6:27 AM PST0

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said President Barack Obama will take “aggressive executive action” on immigration, which Perez said will bring about more “shared prosperity.” Addressing the National Press Club this week, Perez, who is reportedly on the short list to
by Tony Lee23 Oct 2014, 9:39 AM PST0

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.
by Chriss W. Street9 Oct 2014, 7:43 PM PST0

At the high-tech Cross Campus in Santa Monica on Thursday, President Barack Obama suggested that he is considering taking executive action to grant more guest-worker visas for high-tech companies. He said this even though there is a surplus of American
by Tony Lee9 Oct 2014, 6:11 PM PST0

The new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers has a new plan. He wants to turn his team into “America’s Team.” Billionaire Steve Ballmer, who Forbes last week tagged as the richest man in sports, plans to forever erase the
by Warner Todd Huston4 Oct 2014, 1:30 AM PST0

President Barack Obama revealed that he had lunch with Bill Gates “the other day” during a Friday town hall event at an Indiana steel manufacturing plant. Gates was in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a Politico event, and he praised
by Tony Lee3 Oct 2014, 3:25 PM PST0

On Wednesday police were summoned to Donald Sterling’s Beverly Hills home to investigate a possible burglary only to find that the suspect was no other than V. Stiviano. In case anyone has been in a coma for the last six
by Robert Wilde3 Oct 2014, 9:57 AM PST0

Microsoft Windows is so uncool these days that some people are embarrassed to admit they’re not using a MacBook – cripes some people go ahead and buy an Apple computer then, you know, install Windows on the sly hoping no
by Jeff Wolfers2 Oct 2014, 7:48 AM PST0

You don’t have to be rich (or even own your own horse) to be a top show jumper, or come from a rich family, but it doesn’t hurt…financially, that is. Taking a fall from a horse hurts just as much, no
by Kate O'Hare30 Sep 2014, 5:04 AM PST0