During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.
The Los Angeles Public Library has created a program to teach coding to elementary and middle school children, using a grant from the Eureka leadership program.
Apple said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet. The company disclosed the effort after several cyber security
A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.
Selfie sticks have been banned from all of the main events at this year’s Emmy Awards — from the pre-show red carpet to the actual ceremony to the after-party Ball.
As the effects of Net Neutrality have begun to appear in the tech industry, California’s Employment Development Department reports that the government created more jobs than the private sector did in the Bay Area in August.
To support Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim high schooler who found controversy when he brought a purportedly homemade clock to his Texas high school, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hung a clock of their own in the school’s entrance.
A teenage app developer has found a backdoor that opens up the names and e-mail addresses of Kylie Jenner fans who just downloaded her new mobile app.
Since Uber began getting regularly hammered in the press for its aggressive political tactics and potential legal violations, the once outspoken CEO hasn’t given the public much direction about the future of the multibillionaire transportation company.
On Tuesday, Google announced a donation-matching campaign to raise $11 million for humanitarian organizations aiding refugees arriving in Europe from areas including the Middle East, Africa and Afghanistan.
After more than two million pale-blooded souls have hacked, slashed, shot, and rolled their way through the swamp of Gothic symbolism and viscera, Sony has finally revealed an expansion to the acclaimed PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne.
Newly appointed Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima (presumably to be followed by Super Nintendo President and President 64) stated in an interview with Japan’s Nikkei magazine that he had originally predicted the failure of the Wii U.
Sex with robots will be ‘the norm’ in 50 years, say experts. Men are considering the prospect with curiosity and a sense of humour. But academics and feminists are terrified and calling for them to be banned. Let me tell you why.
One year has passed since the start of GamerGate, an online uprising of gamers against poor journalistic standards, political correctness, and moral crusaders in the world of video games. The gamers’ rebellion has had an extraordinary impact. In addition to
Jef Rouner, a writer for the Houston Press and Cracked.com sent self-confessed pedophile Sarah Nyberg a picture of his daughter on social media in an effort to “cheer up” Nyberg following our reporting about the latter’s dark past. The story
Brace yourselves: the Facebook “Dislike” button is coming.
In yet another vindication of Breitbart’s reporting on the dark secrets of prominent social justice warriors, self-confessed pedophile, apologist for white nationalism and progressive darling Sarah Nyberg has confirmed the facts of our recent story about her troubled past. Nyberg, a transsexual who
What was initially thought to be a weather balloon was actually a giant Google balloon that crash-landed in southern California’s Chino Hills neighborhood Saturday morning. No neighborhood residents were injured when the Google Loon project balloon landed in a palm
Later this week, Republican presidential candidates will gather in Simi Valley, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, for the second GOP debate of the campaign season.
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation last week aimed at protecting privacy by banning drones from flying within 350 feet above a property without the owner’s consent.
In most political movements, revelations about claims of self-professed pedophilia, tax evasion and white nationalist apologism would be enough to sink an activist forever. But in the case of Sarah Nyberg, leading online progressives seem determined to go down with the ship.
A few weeks ahead of a visit to Washington from Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Obama is talking tough about Chinese cyber-attacks.
The White House just released a controversial scorecard system for the nation’s colleges, leveraging aggregated tax income data to rank colleges by how much graduates actually earn.
Ellen Pao’s long-strange-trip included filing a historic gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, losing at trial, getting fired as CEO of Reddit, and now dropping her appeal and paying KPCB $276,000 in legal fees.
A progressive activist who was quoted by the Washington Post and whose writing has been featured in Ravishly and Boing Boing claimed to be a “pedophile” and defended white nationalism, Breitbart can reveal. Sarah Nyberg, a transsexual formerly living as Nicholas Nyberg, sometimes known as Sarah Butts, is a
