SURVEY: The majority of CoinDesk readers think there’s a bubble in...
The explosive growth of the cryptocurrency market even has readers of blockchain news site CoinDesk thinking there is a bubble in the $164 billion market. Since the beginning of the year, the market...
View ArticleThe Dodgers have fallen off their record-setting pace, and their stranglehold...
Just when it looked like the Los Angeles Dodgers were going to run away with the World Series, the team has come back to earth in spectacular fashion. After their team compiled 91 wins through August...
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Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, fooled by ’email prankster,’ asks for ‘drone’ in...
White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange with a prankster posing as White House social media director Dan Scavino, during which Cobb asked whether there was “any drone...
View ArticleEquifax executives sold stock days after the company learned of a massive hack
Three senior executives at Equifax, including the company’s chief financial officer, sold almost $2 million worth of the company’s shares just days after it learned of a hack that might’ve exposed the...
View ArticleA federal appeals court just dealt another blow to Trump’s travel ban
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its travel ban against the grandparents and extended relatives of...
View ArticleSamsung holds a narrow lead over Sony in the virtual reality race
Virtual reality headsets have yet to live up to the initial hype. Facebook bought Oculus VR in 2014 for $2 billion, leading Mark Zuckerberg to proclaim, “we believe this kind of immersive, augmented...
View ArticleCortana vs. Elo — The computers have made their picks for Week 1 of the NFL
The NFL season is back and it is time to make picks and everybody could always use a little help. Below we take a look at two popular systems used to pick NFL games – Cortana, Microsoft’s digital...
View Article‘Preposterous and insulting’: Cardinal fires back at Steve Bannon’s...
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, fired back at Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, following Bannon’s suggestion that the Catholic Church was...
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Here’s how much paid leave new mothers and fathers get in 11 different countries
The Trump administration earlier this year included a plan for paid parental leave in its 2018 budget proposal, with a stated goal of offering eligible workers six weeks of leave. The proposal was a...
View ArticleChart shows how much the New England Patriots have dominated the NFL
The 2017 NFL season is here and like many of the previous 16, the New England Patriots are overwhelmingly considered the best team in the league. Since Tom Brady became the Patriots’ starting...
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Hurricane Irma will be a Category 4 or 5 storm as it approaches Florida —...
Hurricane Irma slammed into several Caribbean islands as a Category 5 storm on Wednesday and Thursday, killing at least 23 people. The National Hurricane Center’s projected path shows Irma arriving in...
View ArticleThe Equifax breach may have exposed 143 million people’s Social Security...
Data breaches suck. And on Thursday, we had another one. Equifax, one of the three credit reporting agencies in the US, announced that it was hacked between mid-May and July, potentially exposing...
View ArticleGoogle calls The New York Times’ report that female Google employees make...
Google pushed back on a New York Times report Friday that showed a gender pay gap within the company based on data compiled by employees in a shared internal spreadsheet. The spreadsheet, which had...
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Hurricane Jose is now a major Category 4 storm with 150-mph winds
Hurricane Jose is gaining strength as it moves through the Atlantic and has become a major hurricane – defined as Category 3 or above. The tropical storm was named on Tuesday and became a hurricane on...
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Hurricane Katia, the 6th hurricane of an unusually active season, expected to...
Hurricane Katia, the sixth hurricane of the 2017 season, is expected to make landfall in Mexico early Saturday morning. Katia transitioned from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Wednesday afternoon,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg will testify in court later this month to defend his plan to...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify on the witness stand later this month, a rare and high-profile courtroom appearance as his company defends a controversial plan to give shareholders...
View ArticleBernie takes a swipe at Hillary Clinton: She ran ‘against the most unpopular...
In an appearance on comedian Stephen Colbert’s late-night show on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former presidential candidate, advised Hillary Clinton to move on from the...
View ArticleMillions of people are still using old iPhones ahead of the iPhone 8 launch
Apple is expected to unveil a new version of the iPhone on Tuesday during its first ever event at its new headquarters – fondly nicknamed “The Spaceship.” Rumors are circulating about the cost, size,...
View ArticleNearly-dead valet startup Luxe has been acquired by Volvo
Just months after closing its core product and going on life support, valet parking startup Luxe has been acquired by Volvo. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Luxe, which let drivers...
View ArticleIncredible footage from space shows massive lightning storms in Hurricane Irma
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