Where there is no family meal together, there is no family, Pope Francis told the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, urging his hearers to put away their cell phones and protect family dinners as a precious way to bind the family together.
“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
Today, we’re announcing a huge roll-out of that coverage and significant new investment in turning Breitbart News into one of the leading names in global tech and gaming journalism.
Breitbart Tech is a brand new vertical dedicated to coverage of tech, gaming, and and web culture. We’re going to report on the stories no one else dares to touch, hold power to account and stick up for the people others lie about and slander.
From Bloomberg Businessweek: Breitbart News has spent most of the last decade assaulting what it sees as the sacred cows worshiped by liberals in government, journalism, and Hollywood. Now it is turning to Big Tech. On Tuesday, the right-wing news site
The White House is reaching out to the transgender community for a list of things that its members want as they follow their lifestyle choices.
Prime Minister Narenda Modi will visit the Bay Area this weekend, becoming the first Indian PM to visit the West Coast in over 30 years.
Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate president and the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, presents herself on the campaign trail as a hawk on Iran. She’s promising to take a hardline on the regime in Tehran. However, during her time as the chief executive of HP, she “sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export sanctions,” Bloomberg reports.
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.
“We do not expect to see sustained meaningful growth in [monthly active users] until we start to reach the mass market,” Twitter’s interim CEO Jack Dorsey warned. “We expect that will take a considerable period of time.”
Former Florida Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush arrived in San Francisco on Thursday as part of his latest fundraising binge, during which he met with members of the tech sector and reportedly fielded “tough questions” from those present.
Darkode, a forum used by the web’s most notorious hacking groups, has been taken offline after an investigation by authorities in 20 countries. Twenty-eight people have been arrested, including twelve U.S citizens.
In its second annual report on consumer mobility, the Bank of America found that Americans are more plugged in than ever, with 71 percent even admitting that they sleep with their cell phones next to them. This, the BoA said, is evidence of a growing rate of addiction to mobile devices.
Just 3 minutes after the Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal nationwide, much of America shifted its attention to learn more.
New technology was unveiled at the Paris Air Show this year, with a proposal that robots could replace human immigration officials at airports.
What if your driverless car decides that your life is expendable in order to save a school bus full of children?
In 2014, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) urged the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to shut down computer systems which were operating without a current security authorization. OIG specifically warned the breach of some of the systems could have “national security implications.”
Obama added that he was too busy handing national crises including the collapsing economy, bailing out the auto industry, and halting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay enough attention to the technology that was running government.
If you want an idea of how the phone in your pocket and watch on your wrist is trying to change you, today’s Apple announcement is a great place to start.
En route from Sarajevo to Rome on Saturday, Pope Francis told reporters on his plane that parents should not allow their children to have computers in their bedrooms in order to protect them from both the “filth” of pornography and dependence on their electronic gadgets.
In a national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer.
Iowa’s caucus is the first in the nation, but Iowa is also the first state trying out new technology during the election process.
German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.
Today, if law enforcement wants to read our physical mail or search our safe deposit box, they need a search warrant. This fundamental right to privacy is established in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But currently, national and international privacy protection is not adequately applied to email and data stored on cloud computing servers. This needs to change—and a solution is at hand, if Congress will only move forward.
There are two great new email mobile apps from Google and Microsoft and both offer helpful features, such as location-aware emails and calendar scheduling. While both apps offer something unique, I think one way to compare them is based on a single metric: which app gets me to inbox zero fastest. I don’t enjoy email — I just want to get my daily digital chore done and get on with my life.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted a New York Post report titled, “You’re 45% More Likely to Be Murdered in de Blasio’s Manhattan,” characterizing the report as “fear mongering.”
Tech magnate Elon Musk is part of a group of science and technology celebrities—which includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates and physicist Stephen Hawking—who believe the impending development of artificial intelligence poses a threat to human society and perhaps even human survival.
A team of researchers have developed a hacker-resistant device that could bring online voting to America. A prototype pin-pad device the size of a credit card, DuVote, reportedly allows citizens to securely vote in elections, even if their computer is completely controlled by nefarious hackers.
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, created by Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR, will be capable of showcasing pornography and other X-rated material.
Researchers are discovering that free WiFi networks are so easy to breach that anyone using one is leaving their computer and other electronic devices open to hacking.
Several late, great comedy legends are set to take the stage again for a second act—in hologram form.
Over the past 3 years, there have been extraordinary advances in wearables for fitness: precise heart rate monitoring, form tracking, and energy output. The Apple Watch has none of these features.
A fascinating new simulation finds that self-driving cars will terraform cities: 90 percent of cars will be eliminated, acres of land will open up, and commute times will drop 10 percent.
(Reuters) – A drone marked with a radioactive sign was found on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office on Wednesday and media said it tested positive for a “minuscule” amount of radiation.
Google’s entire multi-billion dollar software utopia is designed to find the perfect search result. Back in 2005, before American and European Union government regulators painted Google as a monopoly, now-chairman Eric Schmidt was quite open about the search giant’s endgame.
Techies in Silicon Valley often tell me that if they do their job right, it should cease to exist. The goal of a lot of technology is to reduce the amount of human labor necessary to get something done. A new study finds that this Silicon Valley maxim also holds true for the government — in a massive way.
In his recent book, The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr goes into frightening detail about the dangers of relying on smart phones to think for us. If we’re not careful, humans may find we can no longer think on our own.
Here’s an interesting headline that appeared in the March 18 Washington Business Journal: “DOD deputy secretary to industry: Come up with a new missile defense solution, and we’ll fund it.” The news item detailed a speech by Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work to a conference in Washington, DC, making defense contractors an offer that’s hard to refuse: If you can build it, we will buy it.
At the TED conference in Vancouver this year, one of the main designers of the iPod and co-founder of Nest Labs, Tony Fadell, gave a few simple tips about creating awesome products. While most of us won’t be working on the next worldwide gadget phenomenon, his tips, especially those from the late, great Steve Jobs, seemed delightfully practical for all sorts of projects.
Though he hasn’t officially launched a presidential campaign, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is taking steps that make it seem that’s likely forthcoming. He opened a new office via RAND PAC in here in Austin that will focus on building a communications technology infrastructure.
Out of the cities in the U.S. known for being technology hubs, Austin, Texas has the highest average salary for software developers and engineers, after making adjustments for taxes and differences in the cost of living.
