This Enormous Bay Area Art Project Needs $1 Million To Keep Shining
The Bay Area is turning to the people to help keep the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge lit up from dusk to dawn, the San Francisco Appeal reports.A crowdfunding campaign for $1.2 million began through...
View ArticleKarl Rove Made An Appearance In Gov. Scott Walker's Criminal Investigation
Republican strategist Karl Rove made a cameo in the newly-unsealed documents from the criminal probe into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign operations. Two judges have ruled the investigation into...
View ArticleThere's Now An 'Instagram For Doctors'
Dr. Josh Landy noticed a trend among doctors. They seemed to be texting each other photos in order to communicate quickly.It could be sending a photo to a doctor who isn't in the hospital at the moment...
View ArticleThis Is What It's Like At Stanford University, Tech's Most Fertile Startup...
Some of the tech industry's most famous tech entrepreneurs got their start at Stanford University. And that's not by accident. Whether it's through programs like StartX, an accelerator that offers...
View ArticleOracle To Wall Street: Our Fourth-Quarter Miss Was Good News (ORCL)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had a great explanation as to why the company missed fourth-quarter and full-year revenue expectations: Oracle is actually kicking butt.It sold a lot of new cloud-computing...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When Older People Try Google Glass For The First Time
Google Glass is often mocked for being too sci-fi or futuristic. The Fine Brothers, known for their comedic YouTube videos, decided to see what one segment thinks of Google Glass: seniors.Their...
View ArticleThe 5 Crucial Skills You Learn In Spy School
It's not often we get a look inside the secret world of spies.While intelligence officers continue to operate in the shadows, a fantastic article by Josef Hufelschulte of Focus Magazine gives a rare...
View ArticleHere's How Amazing Leaders Adapt To Crazy Situations
It's a business cliche that everything's changing all the time. And that means it's a business necessity that leaders know how to adapt. That's why, in clinical psychologist Leslie Patch's 15 years of...
View ArticleConvict Is Interviewed In Jail, Reflects On His 'Sexy' Mugshot Going Viral...
To the ladies and gents who fell in love with alleged criminal Jeremy Meeks earlier Friday, we're sorry to report Meeks is married. At least, that's what he told ABC News Friday when reporters...
View ArticleWhy Dividing Iraq Won't Work
Almost a century ago, as war raged in Flanders, Britain took the fateful decision to carve up the Ottoman empire. It wanted to stop Russia and others from gaining influence over Islam that could be...
View ArticleThe West Needs To Do More To Stop Putin
The West should impose fresh sanctions to deter more Russian meddling in eastern Ukraine.Almost three months have passed since Russia annexed Crimea and began stirring up rebellion in eastern Ukraine....
View ArticleIs Your Internet As Fast As Advertised?
The FCC put out a big report on the state of broadband in the U.S. Statista made a chart based on the data looking at how the internet speeds for various providers in the U.S. For the most part, the...
View ArticleGovernor Cuomo Just Made An Incredibly Geeky Credit Rating Joke
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo couldn't be more pleased about his state's Fitch credit rating upgrade. In a conference call with reporters Friday, Cuomo made what may be the first cred rating-themed joke...
View ArticleCisco To Facebook: We're Ready For You (CSCO)
Cisco has something to say about how Facebook elbowed its way into Cisco's turf, the $23 billion Ethernet switch market.And it amounts to "we're ready to compete with you and all who follow you!"To...
View ArticleThe Best Economic News Of The Week Came When Nobody Was Paying Attention
Friday at 4:15 p.m. Nobody is paying attention to economic news at that time. And yet, the best news of the week came exactly then.That's when the Fed released its latest H.8. report, which offers up a...
View ArticleThe United States Now Has An Excellent Chance To Advance At The World Cup
Thanks to their huge opening-match win against Ghana, the United States now has a 69.2% chance of advancing out of the group stage and into the round-of-16 knockout stage according to Nate Silver's...
View ArticleThe Best Grills You Can Buy
When the mercury starts to rise, everything is better when it's done outside, including (and maybe especially) cooking.The summer cookout is a rite and a ritual, but if you don't have a good barbecue...
View ArticleThe World's Biggest Advertising Company Will Double Its Spending On Twitter
On a panel Friday at the Cannes Lions advertising awards festival in France, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell said his firm would double the amount of money it spends on Twitter ads on behalf of its clients in...
View ArticleA Showdown Is Looming Between Hong Kong And China
For years after the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China's leaders surprised the world by adhering scrupulously to Hong Kong's unusual political set-up of "one country, two...
View ArticleIs A Country's GDP Per Capita Related To The Quality Of Its Soccer Team?
Nope.Credit Suisse recently examined the demographics and economic conditions of every country with a team in the World Cup.What they found was a huge amount of diversity. Here are a few bullets from...
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