Powerful Solar Storm Detonated Destructor Sea Mines During Vietnam War

Recently declassified military documents have revealed that during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy has suspected that a powerful storm caused dozens of its sea mines to explode. The U.S. Navy planted sea mines as part of Operation Pocket Money, the aerial mining campaign launched in May 1972 to block the North Vietnamese from maritime […]

netflix

Nintendo Wii To End Support For Netflix, Other Video Streaming Services After January 30

Here’s some bad news for those who still exclusively stream videos on their Nintendo Wii: You may have to find an alternative soon if you want to continue binge-watching your favorite Netflix shows. According to The Verge, Netflix has informed its users that Nintendo will be shutting down all video streaming services for the console […]

Donald Trump|Facebook

Facebook May Have Fired Oculus VR Co-Founder Palmer Luckey For Supporting Donald Trump

Former Facebook top executive Palmer Luckey may have been ousted from the social media company over his support for Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Luckey, who co-founded the virtual reality company Oculus, has told people that he was fired for supporting Trump before the presidential election. […]

Donald Trump|Howard Schultz|Starbucks

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Eyes Running For President In 2020, According To Report

Former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly assembling an elite public relations team as he prepares to release his new book From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America, and considers running for president of the United States. According to CNBC, Shultz’s team includes Steve Schmidt, who managed Republican […]

stephen hawking

Stephen Hawking’s Wheelchair Sells 20 Times The Pre-Sale Estimate At Auction

Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair, which the late theoretical physicist used in the 1980s and 1990s, exceeded sale expectations at an online auction held on Thursday. The value of the chair was earlier estimated to be up to $19,500 (£15,000), but it eventually sold for $387,480 (£296,750), CNN reported. The amount is nearly 20 times more than […]

australia

Fifty-Year-Old Woman My Ut Trinh Arrested For Contaminating Strawberries With Needles

The Australian police on Sunday arrested and filed charges against a 50-year-old woman who contaminated strawberries with needles. According to ABC News, the suspect is farm worker My Ut Trinh. She faces seven counts of contamination of goods. Strawberries spiked with needles were first reported in Queensland, the third most populous state in Australia, on […]

Jamal Khashoggi|Saudi Arabia

Officials Close To Saudi Crown Prince Discussed Assassinating Enemies A Year Before Khashoggi Killing

A new report has revealed that before journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed, Saudi officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed a plot to kill the kingdom’s enemies. The crown prince is believed to have ordered the operation that led to the killing of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, […]

depression|Facebook|social media

Experiment Reveals Social Media Can Increase Depression And Loneliness

Use of social media can increase depression and loneliness, findings of an experiment conducted by psychology experts have shown. Social media and increased risk for depression and loneliness have long been linked but no causal association has been proven until now. In a new study, however, psychologist Melissa Hunt, from the University of Pennsylvania, and […]

Health Insurer Aetna To Pay $25.5 Million After Denying Coverage To Late Cancer Patient Orrana Cunningham

An Oklahoma jury has ordered health insurer Aetna to pay the family of a cancer patient it denied coverage before she died. According to CBS News, the jury on Monday instructed Aetna to pay the family of Orrana Cunningham $25.5 million for denying her coverage claim for a type of radiation therapy a year before […]

china

Alibaba 2018 Singles Day Sale Logs Over $1 Billion In 85 Seconds

China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba revealed that sales from its annual Singles Day extravaganza on Sunday soared past $1 billion within one minute and 25 seconds, CNN reported. Singles Day is an informal holiday in China. It celebrates people who are not in a relationship. The date, November 11, or 11/ 11, symbolizers singletons. Alibaba began […]

Bird Hybrid Spotted In Pennsylvania Backyard Is Three Species In One, DNA Test Reveals

A yellow, black, and white bird spotted in a backyard in Pennsylvania earlier this year turned out to be a hybrid of three different species. When bird watcher Lowell Burket saw the male bird in the borough of Roaring Spring in May, he noticed that it had the physical attributes of the blue-winged warbler and […]

Facebook

Facebook Quietly Rolls Out TikTok Clone Called Lasso

Facebook has released a new app that essentially cloned another popular app that allows users to create fun and short videos. The new app called Lasso is reportedly designed to be the competitor of Tiktok, the viral 15-second video app that recently merged with Musical.ly. According to The Verge, Lasso is Facebook’s new attempt to […]

Donald Trump

Mail Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Faces Life In Jail After 30-Count Indictment

Mail bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc faces life in prison after a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted him on 30 charges, according to NBC News. The 56-year-old was indicted on Friday, November 9, with mailing pipe bombs to several public figures who have been critical of President Donald Trump. These include former Secretary of State […]

Jamal Khashoggi

Khashoggi Killed For Revealing Funding Source Of Anti-Iran TV Channel, Claims ‘Guardian’ Journalist

Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey last month, may have lost his life after disclosing the funding source of an anti-Iran TV channel based in the United Kingdom, according to PressTV. Following a terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Iran International TV gave airtime to […]

China’s State-Owned Press Agency Xinhua Debuts World’s First AI News Anchors

China’s state-run press agency Xinhua has introduced a new anchor to deliver news, but unlike the typical newsreaders that people are used to seeing on TV or on the internet, this one is based on artificial intelligence technology. The anchor is based on digital composites created from footage of human hosts and designed to read […]

edward snowden

Former CIA Employee Edward Snowden Links Israel Spyware Pegasus To Khashoggi Killing

Edward Snowden claims that Saudi Arabia used an Israeli spyware to target murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Bloomberg reports. Speaking to an audience in Tel Aviv by video conference on Tuesday, the fugitive U.S. whistleblower claimed that Saudi Arabia may have received help from Israel-based NSO Group Ltd. to track and kill Saudi critic Khashoggi at […]

bill gates

Bill Gates Brings Human Poop At Speech In China Reinvented Toilet Expo

Microsoft founder Bill Gates brought with him a jar of human waste when he kicked off the Reinvented Toilet expo in China on Tuesday. According to CBS News, the philanthropist placed the jar on a pedestal next to him as he made a plea for the safe disposal of human waste during his keynote speech […]

Chinese Company Tencent Enters The Self-Driving Car Race

Chinese Technology company Tencent Holdings Ltd is reportedly entering into the self-driving car industry. According to Reuters, Tencent is recruiting self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California, essentially joining companies that compete for talents in the heart of the Silicon Valley, which has become a hub for testing and research of autonomous vehicles. Five dozen […]

google

Google Chrome 71 To Crack Down On Websites With Abusive Ads

Google frowns on websites that display abusive ads. In 2017, the search engine company joined the group Coalition for Better Ads, which offers specific standards for how to improve ads for consumers. With the release of Chrome 71 in December, the search giant will be stepping up its fight against the abusive ad problem. Ars […]

Bode Miller

Olympian Bode Miller’s Wife Morgan Beck Shares Ultrasound Of New Baby Boy With ‘Angel’ Of His Dead Sister

The 19-month-old daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Beck Miller died in June this year after drowning in a pool. Paramedics performed CPR on Emmy before she was rushed to a hospital but they were unable to revive the toddler. “Our baby girl, Emmy, passed away yesterday,” the couple wrote on […]

scroll to top