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Texas Teacher Survey Has Ties to Education Progressives

Texas Teacher Survey Has Ties to Education Progressives

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

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Major US Websites

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Major US Websites

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

Microsoft Installs Robots for Security

Microsoft Installs Robots for Security

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

RoboCops: Silicon Valley Deploys Daleks

RoboCops: Silicon Valley Deploys Daleks

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,

Romania's New President Vows to Tackle Corruption

Romania's New President Vows to Tackle Corruption

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

How to crash a cloud

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

America Really Doesn't Like Washington … Or Taxes

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

Al-Qaeda Plan to Cripple Global Economy With Oil Attack

Al-Qaeda Plan to Cripple Global Economy With Oil Attack

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

Windows 10: Microsoft gets its Mojo back

Windows 10: Microsoft gets its Mojo back

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