The legal dispute between President Donald Trump and the nation’s largest bank has entered a new and consequential phase in 2026, drawing national attention from lawmakers, regulators and the...
As Russian hacks continue to make headlines across the country, President Barack Obama promises to respond to the cyberattacks.
In an interview with NPR, President Obama says America needs and will to take action against Russia for the hacks. In addition, Obama explained that he spoke directly with Russia's president...
On Thursday, Facebook announced a new plan to tackle fake news on the social media network.
How is Facebook going to stop fake news?
Now, Facebook is working on a new strategy to tackle Fake news. Facebook's Adam Mosseri outlined four primary objectives to handle fake news, which include:
Making it easier for Facebook...
NASA scientists argue that the lack of time to prepare for an asteroid or comet collision could leave Earth open to an 'extinction level' event.
The odds of an asteroid or comet colliding into Earth is highly unlikely. Approximately, every 60 million years there is a chance of a major...
While tech billionaires meet with President-elect Donald Trump, hundreds of tech workers vow to never build a Muslim registry system.
The CEOs of several large-cap tech companies were in New York on Wednesday to meet with the President-Elect. According to sources, the meeting was cordial with both sides seeking to strike...
On Wednesday, Yahoo announced more than 1 billion accounts were hacked.
Whether it be the Russia hacks controversy that is now circling around Washington D.C. Or, the Adult Friend Finder hack that compromised over 400 million accounts. Hacking attacks on major companies are now becoming more and more commonplace.
Last September, Yahoo...
Amazon announces Prime Air - a drone delivery service.
On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, announced on Twitter that the company had made their first drone delivery to an Amazon shopper in England. What was the first Amazon drone delivery through Prime Air? An Amazon Fire streaming device and popcorn. The...
New study suggests viruses are deadlier to men than women.
Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species has changed the world of science since its first publication in 1859. In the book, Darwin argues that evolution of animals is based around natural selection, fitness, and genetics.
Now a study by researchers, Francisco Úbeda and Vincent...
As part of a broader strategy to realign the company’s operations, Google announced on Tuesday that it would spin off the company’s self-driving car unit. The new company will be called Waymo and the move is viewed as a signal that the underlying technology has moved beyond the development...
Google spins off and launches Waymo, Google's self-driving car company.
After 2 million miles of self-driving and years of testing, Google is taking their self-driving car project out of development and into the hands of car companies. Starting Tuesday, as a company under the Google umbrella, Waymo will take their...
Apple releases wireless headphones Apple AirPods to the public on Tuesday.
After rumors that Apple's AirPods would not be available until after Christmas, Apple announced the launch and sale of AirPods. This comes after one of Apple's biggest technological disrupts, the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7....
American teens using less drugs, smoking fewer cigarettes and drinking less alcohol, which begs the question - what are teens doing instead?
In 1999, 1 out of 20 high school sophomores tried cocaine. Seventeen years later, cocaine use is down to only 1.3 percent of 10th graders. But cocaine use is not...
On Monday, Microsoft announced it is working on offering its Cortana virtual assistant to a slew of consumer-focused Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The move will bring the world of the Jetsons one step closer to reality and was announced at the company’s WinHEC conference which was held in...
Psychiatric drug use is on the rise, study reports.
When Kanye West was hospitalized for a psychiatric medical breakdown, mental illness was placed in the forefront as millions of Americans watched, via social media, the mental breakdown of of the biggest entertainers of 2016. And while we will not know what...
Following in the social media giant's parent company Facebook, Instagram launches Instagram Live to the world on Monday.
As companies compete for millennials' attention, more and more social media apps are turning to Live video features in order to embrace the moment and time users spend on the app. Snapchat...
Multi-Billionaire and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates has gathered a group of his fellow billionaire friends to create a new generation of clean energy technology.
On Sunday night, Bill Gates announced he is launching the Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund, which will invest up to $1 billion in clean energy technology.
"Our goal...
As executives at Facebook will attest to, not all news is good news. The company has been pinned as public enemy number one due to its role in disseminating fake news and on Monday, the U.K. newspaper The Guardian ran a story entitled ‘2016: the year Facebook became the...
Washington state lawmakers are considering passing a bill that will allow sports fans to bring guns to a stadium.
On average, there are around 91 different people killed by guns, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, an amendment to the Washington state code...
Cadillac started this weekend off in the middle of a PR crisis after a casting call went viral on social media looking for "Alt-right" Neo Nazis.
According to a casting call, the notice said the casting company The Cast Station was looking for "any and all real alt-right thinkers/believers." The...
In an extensive interview with Fox News, President-elect Donald Trump called the CIA report, which claim Russian hackers rigged the election, "ridiculous".
Hacking is becoming more and more commonplace. HPE's Business of Hacking report found hackers are becoming more organized and functioning like a legitimate business with their goal to...
While the announcement of a retail concept without a checkout counter set the tech world abuzz; others were asking how this development would impact the labor market in the future. According to author and technologist, Martin Ford, Amazon Go ‘as not about reducing labor costs’. In fact, the concept...
