FAA: U.S. Airliner Nearly Collided With Drone in March
A U.S. airliner nearly collided with a drone over Florida earlier this year, a federal official said, a near miss that highlights risks posed by the proliferation of unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies.
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In Praise of Moogfest
The more I perform at music festivals, the more I'm baffled by what might compel a person to attend one. The blazing heat of the mid-afternoon sun over an open field, the less-than-favorable hygiene...
View ArticlePlease Stop With The BuzzFeed Quizzes, Because Enough Is Enough
Seriously BuzzFeed, we get it. Quizzes are something you can do. But now even the puppets from Glove and Boots are saying enough is enough! Is it really important to know "What kind of potato you are?"...
View ArticleCelebrities, World Leaders Unite To #BringBackOurGirls
Nearly a month after Islamists militants staged a mass kidnapping in the Nigerian state of Borno, more than 200 girls who were captured are still missing. The abductions as well as the so far limited...
View Article85-Year-Old Oil Tycoon Can't Stop Tweeting At Rappers About Money
T. Boone Pickens, the 85-year-old oil tycoon, was giddy to welcome Dr. Dre into the ridiculously rich people's club Friday, following the news that Apple is close to buying the hip-hop mogul's company...
View ArticleCrisis on the Internet: Is Everybody the Bad Guy?
Next week, the Federal Communications Commission plans to propose new rules that its chairman claims will preserve the Internet as a free, fair and open communications medium for all. It seems far more...
View ArticleiO Tillet Wright, Equality, and How Gay Are You?
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. 10 years ago I wrote a book called Chicken, about when I was a 17-year-old prostitute/rent boy/escort/industrial sex technician. I was lucky...
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Mother's Day for the Those in Denial
I am a mother, and yet every year I fret about whether or not to play along with Mother's Day pomp and circumstance, or just hope it goes away. Even Anna Jarvis, the woman who spearheaded the U.S.'...
View ArticleChina Says It Wants To Build Massive Railway To America
China has announced an ambitious engineering plan to build a bullet train railway to America, state media reported Thursday. The massive railway network, nicknamed "China-Russia-Canada-America," would...
View Article#SmallBizSelfie Campaign Showcases A Day In The Life Of American Small...
Small businesses may not make headlines as often as their big corporate counterparts, but their stories are the ones that truly encapsulate the American spirit of individualism. With National Small...
View ArticleSocial Media Etiquette for Weddings
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...social media can be a friend or foe on your wedding day. Some people just assume social media is a welcome wedding guest, while the bride and groom may think otherwise....
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The Standouts: TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014
[Disclosure: TechCrunch and the Huffington Post are both owned by AOL.] (Pictured: Vernon Kerswell, Managing Director, Extreme Fliers) Over the past few days, TechCrunch Disrupt NY has come and, sadly,...
View ArticleNintendo Says There's Nothing It Can Do About Unreleased Game's LGBT Problem
On Tuesday, Nintendo said that it would not give into the pressure to add same-sex relationships to the U.S. version of its life-simulator series, "Tomodachi," which lets characters date, fall in love...
View ArticleHachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery Of Some Books - NYTimes.com
Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers, a flexing of its muscle as a battle with a publisher spills...
View ArticleHow #Hashtags Became The Raised Fist Of Punctuation
Hashtags began as a way to search for tweets about specific topics (#socialmedia), evolved into a tool for adding nuance (#ohyeah) and are now showing up in places where they appear to serve no...
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Change Your Password on World Password Day
We also say we want to be safe online. Yet sometimes our actions betray our words—especially if we’re using simple, short passwords for our online sites. Passwords with less than eight characters are...
View ArticleThere Was An Israeli Spy In Al Gore's Bathroom, Report Claims
As reports swirled this week accusing Israel of aggressive spying on the U.S., one allegation was centered on one of the world's most private places. On Tuesday, Newsweek published a wide-ranging piece...
View ArticleUncharted Video Collection From The Weather Channel Google Earth Won't Show...
Google Earth allows you to travel the entire planet from your computer...well almost the entire planet.
View ArticleNintendo Apologizes Over Same-Sex Marriage Controversy
Nintendo is apologizing and pledging to be more inclusive after being criticized for not recognizing same-sex relationships in English editions of a life-simulator video game. The publisher said that...
View Article12 Steps (Because We Are All Addicted): From Burnout to Thriving
1. Unless you are one of the wise few who already gets all the rest you need, you have an opportunity to immediately improve your health, creativity, productivity and sense of well-being. Start by...
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