EU, U.S. Force Inclusion Of Climate Change On G20 Agenda Despite Australia's...
By Lincoln Feast and Jane Wardell BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The G20 communique will include a significant passage on climate change, EU officials said on Sunday, as the United States and...
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How To See The 2014 Leonid Meteor Shower
Here's another chance to wish upon a shooting star: the 2014 Leonid Meteor Shower will peak overnight between Nov. 17 and 18, filling the sky with at least a sprinkling of meteors. And since the moon...
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6-Year-Old Says He's World's Youngest Certified Microsoft Professional
A 6-year-old boy in the U.K. is claiming the title of the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. Ayan Qureshi, who lives with his family in Coventry, U.K., passed the tech giant's test...
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The Next Business Frontier: Networks of Record
Systems of Record, Systems of Engagement, and Networks of Record - so many systems that describe how we work, who we work with, and where we work, facilitating the interconnection of business...
View ArticleU.S. Marshals and Their "Dirtbox" Declare the 4th Amendment Dead
Has anyone seen the 4th Amendment recently? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and...
View ArticleWhat Muslim Hashtag Activism Actually Accomplishes In Spite Of Trolls
(RNS) ISIS terrorist rampages, waves of anti-Muslim hate speech and fear-mongering Islamophobia are inspiring an outburst of online activism in the form of Twitter hashtags. The question is: Does it...
View ArticleAl Franken Explains Net Neutrality To Ted Cruz
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) responded on Sunday to a Washington Post op-ed in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote that net neutrality is "Obamacare for the Internet." Franken said Cruz...
View ArticleCould 'Darknet' Drug Markets Be a Good Thing?
Global Drug Survey has been tracking the dark net markets since 2012. Our work on the Silk Road before its closure in October 2013 defined that the motivations for purchasing drugs on-line were the...
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Why Is Amazon Flailing?
With the disastrous release of Kindle Fire Phone and the utterly ignorable Echo, it seems Amazon has lost its way. At the root of the issue is Amazon's confusion as to what it is. It seems that Amazon...
View ArticleState Dept Computers Hacked, Email Shut Down
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A...
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Sniff Test: What Entrepreneurship Smells Like on Midwest Campuses
It's 11:30 on a Friday night and 1,200 computer science and engineering students surround me. They have come from across the country to the University of Michigan's North Campus to participate in...
View ArticleObama, Not the Giant Telecoms, Is Right on Net Neutrality
In the aftermath of his party's defeat in the midterm elections, President Obama surprised many when he reaffirmed his overwhelming support for net neutrality, proposing that the Internet should be...
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable Pulling Down Entire Industry's Reputation
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter are giving satellite and cable providers a bad rap. The three companies helped land the cable and satellite TV industry dead last in a recent YouGov BrandIndex...
View ArticleHow Restaurants Are Getting People To Put Away Their Phones
Most Americans say phones don’t belong at the table during meals, though the vast majority of millennials admit to checking their phones during dinner. Concern over the practice has sparked some...
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Yik Yak, Yuck: A Weapon That Should Be Treated Like One
Geo-based applications like Yik Yak have been stirring controversy for their lack of filters on college campuses and reliance on anonymity. With racist and insensitive comments being posted for...
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Creating Empathy in the News: There's an App for That
Graphic photos of war, incidents of racism, militarized police, and the killing of journalists are just a handful of the images desensitizing the American public. In some cases, such pictures and...
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The New Language of Online Safety
Stranger danger, online predators, cyberbullying... this is the scary talk you brace yourself for before attending a gathering about online safety, like the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)...
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This Isn't Your Typical Apple Store
Just for a day, an "Apple Store" showed off neither phones nor computers but actual Apples. To celebrate its 1,000th anniversary last month, London's Borough Market turned a section of its indoor...
View ArticleAnonymous Is Going To War With The KKK Over Ferguson Protests
WASHINGTON -- Members of the hacker collective Anonymous are targeting the Ku Klux Klan after the designated hate group reportedly threatened protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The hackers claim to have...
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Now You Can Play 'Smash Bros.' On Your TI-83 Calculator
Now there's a new way for bored kids to kill time in algebra class -- playing "Super Smash Bros." on their calculators. "Super Smash Bros. Open" is a program that brings the popular Nintendo game to...
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