PolitiFact rated just over 15% of Donald Trump’s campaign claims as true, while marking 51% of Hillary Clinton’s as such, according to PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman.
On Sunday night, the punk rock legends of Green Day joined local the East Bay’s SWMRS to put on a concert to raise money in honor of the victims of a deadly Dec. 2 fire at the Oakland warehouse known as the “Ghost Ship,”where 36 people died.
Silicon Valley is going all-in for so-called “cord cutting,” as 65 percent of Internet users worldwide watched some type of streaming video-on-demand last month.
Beverly Hills Mayor John A. Mirisch has taken Uber’s side in its fight with the State of California over the company’s effort to roll out self-driving cars without a special permit.
On Friday, the arts community in Los Angeles attempted to create its own response to the crackdown on unsafe warehouses throughout the Golden State in the wake of the fire in Oakland’s “Ghost Ship” over two weeks ago in which 36 people died.
President-elect Donald Trump directly addressed the nation of China with his Twitter account Saturday, as he spent the weekend watching the news about China stealing an underwater drone belonging to the United States.
Cyber-security firm InfoArmor claims that the data from Yahoo’s one billion user account hack was sold a number of times last August for $300,000 on the “dark web,” and that it is still offered for sale.
Apple’s App Store rejected the app for social network and free-speech Twitter alternative Gab, claiming that it “includes pornographic content” posted by users.
A conservative legal organization is planning to pursue action against a public school district in Indiana after administrators removed an anti-abortion’s club posters from a high school’s hallway.
PolitiFact rated just over 15% of Donald Trump’s campaign claims as true, while marking 51% of Hillary Clinton’s as such, according to PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman.
PolitiFact is being considered by Facebook as one of the social network’s partners in “fact-checking” and determining fake news, but a report from 2013 pointed out that the site overwhelmingly focuses on tearing apart arguments made by Republicans, marking them as false over 25% more than Democrats.
Nintendo’s new mobile game Super Mario Run has finally released, and it’s really, really good.
Ride-hailing company Uber picked a fight with the California Department of Motor Vehicles on December 14 by commercially launching self-driving cars in San Francisco without first seeking a state permit for qualified testing.
Adultery hookup website “Ashley Madison” have been been ordered to pay out $1.6 million to exposed users of the site following last year’s hack and leak of account data.
(Reuters) — Yahoo Inc came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications Inc to demand better terms for its planned purchase of Yahoo’s internet business.
Given that the Donald Trump victory already made Yahoo less attractive for Verizon, the latest billion-account-hack at Yahoo could let Verizon dump their buy-out and still collect a $145 million break-up fee.
Rich Lowry writes that claims of “Russian hacking” were well litigated before the election, and voters considered and rejected them.
BERLIN (AP) — Eight years late and billions over budget, European officials flipped the switch Thursday on a satellite navigation system meant to rival the U.S.-made GPS service that’s become a staple feature of smartphones and cars worldwide. The Galileo
A new bulletin board in a residence hall at Bucknell University is warning students to “T.H.I.N.K” before they speak.
Working for Google, arguably the most powerful corporate entity of the Information Age, isn’t the perfect techno-Utopian fantasy that it may appear to be.
Former Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s emails may have been hacked due to a typo by a Clinton aide.
MILO claimed that taxation “turns us all into Scrooge” during his Christmas talk at the Minnesota State University on Thursday.
“Welcome to the Dangerous Faggot Tour! My name is Milo Yiannopoulos, but tonight you can call me “Mrs. Claws.”
MILO explained “the War on Christmas” during his talk at Minnesota State University on Thursday, referencing an article by the National Review’s David French.
It was capitalism and Ebenezer Scrooge’s wealth that allowed him to pay for Tiny Tim’s medical treatment in the end of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
MILO handed out various Christmas presents to the audience during his talk at Minnesota State University on Thursday, including Christmas hats and a copy of Crippled America by Donald Trump.
Left-leaning PolitiFact is on the newly revealed list of “fact checking” organizations Facebook will reportedly use to label “fake news” stories as they appear on the social media platform.
The University of Colorado Boulder “will not be cancelling Milo’s event” at the college in January despite pressure and a petition from left-wing students.
The personal information of over 150,000 government employees, including that of military and intelligence agency personnel, was reportedly leaked as part of the latest Yahoo data breach of over one billion users in what could be a potential threat to national security.
Facebook has announced it will introduce warning labels on stories they deem to be “fake news,” with the help of partisan “fact checking” organisations such as Snopes and PolitiFact.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that he will be stepping down from his position at the FCC on January 20th, 2017, the same day that President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
