Kay Anderson

Google Fiber Wants To Bring Super Fast Gigabit Internet To Three New Cities

Google has announced that Google Fiber may be expanded to three new cities: San Diego and Irvine in California, and Louisville, Kentucky. If each of these cities has a successful result in the initial phase, which involves analyzing their existing infrastructure and housing density along with experts from Google, they may become the newest cities […]

8y ago

Billie Holiday Will Appear As An Amazing Hologram At The Apollo Theater In Harlem

The great African-American blues singer Billie Holiday will be appearing, magically, as a hologram at the Apollo Theater in Harlem this fall. Although she’s been dead since 1959, the technology will make an amazingly realistic, apparently three-dimensional Billie Holiday sing and chat with the audience. According to Phys.org, holograms do their magic by recording light […]

8y ago

google

New Google Logo Gets Some Rave Reviews, But Many Think It Looks Childish

Google’s new logo design has some designers and artists praising its sleek look. Other branding gurus are not so impressed with the new Google logo. The huge redesign includes a streamlined sans-serif font and a microphone function with four colorful animated dots. Users from around the world had varying opinions, calling the new Google design […]

8y ago

murder

Murder Rates Rise Steeply In US Cities: Experts Can’t Agree On The Reasons Why

Murder rates are rising in many U.S. cities after homicides had declined in recent years in many urban areas. Experts are searching for the reason for this but don’t have a definitive answer. The numbers are shocking; compared to 2014, homicide is up 76 percent in Milwaukee, 60 percent in St. Louis, 56 percent in […]

8y ago

walmart

Walmart Cuts Workers’ Hours Just Months After Raising Their Pay

Four months after raising pay for some of its employees, retail giant Walmart is cutting some workers’ hours to keep costs down. According to Fox 6 Now, Walmart raised the pay of 500,000 full-time and part-time employees in April to at least $9 per hour. This change was expected to cost the company about $1 […]

8y ago

poland|Train

Nazi Gold Train Hunt Intensifies: Russia, Poland, And Jewish Groups May Stake Conflicting Claims To The Treasure

The Nazi gold train search is drawing swarms of treasure hunters and media members to a forested area of southwest Poland. It’s a crazed “gold rush” atmosphere. There are reporters, photographers, and people who are swinging metal detectors around, hoping to strike it rich. Swirling rumors say that the Nazis hid a fabulous treasure, possibly […]

8y ago

Uber

Uber Hires Top Hackers: Can They Keep Uber’s Driverless Cars Safe From Remote Takeover Attacks?

Uber is hiring two hacking experts to work on its driverless car development program. The two respected security engineers are Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek. The men made headlines when they hacked into a Jeep Cherokee in July and remotely took over the engine and the braking system. Because they exposed these serious and dangerous […]

8y ago

colombia|Narcos|netflix|pablo escobar

Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ Series Premieres: Stars Wagner Moura And Ana De La Reguera Talk About Colombia’s Drug War

Netflix’s Narcos series premiered on Friday, and the first buzz is that it’s gripping and beautifully shot. Narcos’ subject is the drug cartels’ reign of terror in Colombia. The Netflix drama portrays the rise of Colombia’s drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1970’s and 80’s, and the fight of the government and the U.S. Drug […]

8y ago

Donald Trump|ricky martin

Ricky Martin Calls Trump’s Views Racist And Ignorant In Scathing Univision Op-Ed

Ricky Martin denounced Donald Trump’s “racist” and “ignorant” comments about Latinos in a Univision Op-Ed that he wrote. Martin is angry about what he termed Trump’s continuing harassment of the Latino community in the United States. In strong words, singer Ricky Martin called for unity. Trump’s behavior at a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday […]

8y ago

joy behar|the view

Paula Faris Joins ‘The View’s’ New Season As Joy Behar Returns

Paula Faris will join the cast of The View for the show’s 19th season, which starts September 8. ABC announced the new lineup that features ABC News correspondent Faris as well as Candace Cameron Bure and Joy Behar. Faris reacted to the new assignment with excitement on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1048119261887925&id=114098918623302 ABC hopes that the shakeup, including […]

8y ago

Angela Merkel|Germany

Angela Merkel Slams The ‘Shameful’ Violent Anti-Refugee Protests That Are Shocking The German Public

Chancellor Angela Merkel has reacted to the weekend’s violent neo-Nazi protests near a migrant shelter in eastern Germany, calling them “repulsive,” “disgusting,” and “shameful,” Some of the demonstrators shouted “We are the people” and “Heil Hitler!” as they threw bottles and rocks. The police had to seal off the new migrant shelter to keep the […]

8y ago

amazon

Can Unhappy Amazon Employees Sue For Damages? ACLU Says ‘Contact Us’

The American Civil Liberties Union took out a full-page ad in Friday’s Seattle Times, inviting mistreated Amazon employees to contact the ACLU to tell their story. In the ad, the ACLU hinted that it may file at least one lawsuit against Amazon. “Amazon employees who believe they were unlawfully penalized because of their decision to […]

8y ago

Donald Trump|hillary clinton|Jeb Bush

‘Anchor Baby’ Is A Hateful Term, Says Clinton Campaign: GOP Candidates Who Use It Are Attacking US Citizens

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is condemning Republicans for using what it calls hateful rhetoric around immigration, especially for using the term “anchor baby.” When a reporter took issue with Jeb Bush’s use of “anchor baby,” Bush testily replied, “You give me a better term and I’ll use it.” Clinton shot back this Twitter response to […]

8y ago

emma watson|John Boyega

Emma Watson And John Boyega Will Star In New Film ‘The Circle’: Will Their Characters Fall In Love?

Emma Watson will have John Boyega as her leading man and romantic interest in the movie of Dave Eggers’ book The Circle. Producers of the futuristic thriller announced that Watson and Boyega, along with Tom Hanks, will add their immense talents to the film. Vanity Fair celebrated how lucky Boyega is to be able to […]

8y ago

New York City

New York City Mayor Vows To Stop Topless Women From Hustling In Times Square

New York City’s topless women panhandlers are about to get banned by Mayor de Blasio. The body-painted hustlers approach tourists in Times Square and ask if they’d like to pose for a picture with them. Often, the topless women’s male “managers” approach the tourists and offer to snap the photo. Next, they ask the tourists […]

8y ago

google

Google Testing Drones: Flights Are Kept Secret From The Public

Google is flying test drones in private airspace in the United States. Commercial drones are mostly not allowed to fly unmanned in private airspace, but Google has managed to sidestep the law by having a special exemption. It’s called a COA (Certificate of Waiver or Authorization), and it is normally only granted to institutions like […]

8y ago

connecticut|supreme court

Connecticut Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional, All 11 Death Row Inmates Will Live

The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a narrow decision, voted Thursday to end the death penalty completely, even for the 11 inmates who are on death row. The Supreme Court’s 4-to-3 decision means that two convicted murderers in the horrific and brutal killing of a doctor’s wife and his two young daughters in Cheshire in 2007 […]

8y ago

bradley manning|chelsea manning|wikileaks

Could Chelsea Manning Get Solitary Confinement For Having Caitlyn Jenner Issue of ‘Vanity Fair’?

The contraband that Chelsea Manning was caught possessing was not a knife or a sharpened metal file or drugs. Yet she’s facing possible solitary confinement. Chelsea’s alleged infraction was having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste. Manning is also charged with disorderly conduct and […]

8y ago

New York|New York City

New York Legionnaires’ Disease Crisis: Cuomo Will Use Emergency Powers As Death Toll Reaches 12

The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City has killed 12 people as of Wednesday. In a new development, an inmate at Riker’s Island has come down with the deadly Legionnaire’s pneumonia. Recent cases in nearby Rockland County are a troubling sign that the epidemic is a concern for the entire state of New York. […]

8y ago

bangladesh|conservation|India

Six Alleged Tiger Poachers Killed: Bangladesh Police Say Suspects Started Shooting

Police in Bangladesh reported that six tiger poachers were killed Sunday in a shootout in the Sundarbans forest reserve. After arresting seven men on suspicion of poaching endangered Bengal tigers, the police were taking their captives along on the search for a cache of guns and tiger hides. Suddenly, other poachers nearby opened fire on […]

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