Pennsylvania senators to introduce Internet gambling bill
HARRISBURG, PA. -Republican state senators in Pennsylvania are preparing to introduce legislation to allow Internet gambling. The forthcoming bill was advertised Wednesday by Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and three other Republicans. Their memo to fellow senators says the bill would allow existing Pennsylvania casinos to offer Internet gambling. Players must be in […]
One woman’s trash ended up being a recycling firm’s treasure.
A Silicon Valley e-waste recycling firm is trying to find a woman who dropped off her unwanted computer without knowing the bulky machine was worth thousands of dollars. CleanBayArea sold the woman’s rare Apple 1 computer at auction for $200,000. The company’s policy is to split half the proceeds with the original owner, so […]
Silk Road founder sencenced to life in prisonment
NEW YORK — A federal judge sentenced Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht to life in prison Friday for founding and operating a criminal version of eBay that made buying illegal drugs almost as easy as clicking a computer mouse. After considering the 31-year-old Texas native’s apology and plea for leniency, U.S. District Judge Katherine […]
Asteroid mining might compromise telecom and defense satellites
Asteroid mining might provide a lot of jobs and new sources of gold, titanium, platinum and other metals, as well as hydrogen and ammonia in the future. But it could also spell disaster for telecom satellites orbiting the Earth if it’s not managed properly. You see, some companies planning to mine the celestial objects […]
IRS blames Russia for ‘$50 million’ hack
Remember when the IRS website was hacked and around 100,000 people had their tax data stolen? Officials are now pointing accusatory fingers in the direction of Russia, at least according to CNN. The revelation was made by Illinois Representative Peter Roskam, who is believed to have gotten the information straight from IRS chief John […]
With health care as the model, Obama wrecks the Internet
Singer Taylor Swift is among the thousands of celebrities who, in a pre-emptive move to protect their reputations, reportedly have purchased URLs that follow their names with new extensions such as .sucks, .xxx and .porn. President Obama is doing for the Internet what he did for health care: making things worse. His slogan should […]
In 5 years, 80 percent of the whole Internet will be online video
Already, we know that Netflix accounts for one-third of Internet traffic at peak hours. Toss in YouTube, and that figure rises to roughly half of all bandwidth consumed. But even that’s small potatoes compared with what’s coming. In five years, 80 percent of the entire world’s Internet consumption will be dominated by video. That number […]
Wake up to the smell of money, not farts
If we were rich, we’d pay gourmet baker Richard Bertinet to rouse us every day with the scent of his freshly baked bread. Unfortunately, we’re not, which is why SensorWake’s smell-based alarm clock is such an exciting prospect. Rather than waking users up with the traffic report, SensorWake uses a cartridge of odors to get […]
Google heads list of 16 companies trying to kill passwords
People don’t put enough thought into passwords because it’s a pain, but that creates security problems for the whole internet. Google, Microsoft and others in the FIDO Alliance want to replace passwords with fingerprint scanning and other techniques, and just unveiled 31 products from 16 companies that conform to the new standard. The most […]
Google Maps fixing its N-word problem
Multiple media outlets, including the Washington Post and the Huffington Post, reported the issue Tuesday afternoon after a Twitter user first posted a screen shot of the problem. “Some inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologize for any offense this may have caused,” a Google spokeswoman said in […]
Kerry singles out N.Korea for Internet abuse
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is singling out North Korea for repressing its citizens’ use of the Internet, calling open and secure cyber access a global right. Kerry told students Monday at prestigious Korea University that authoritarian Pyongyang, with the lowest rate of access to the Web in the world, was the opposite of […]
New Regulations for Streaming Pandora & Spotify?
For many artists, monetizing their music and increasing profitability through steaming services such as Spotify and Pandora has often been an issue. And now, with the emergence of new paradigms creating more options for streaming music services, regulation has become an important factor in this debate. Based on 2014 data (link is external) from the […]
Google’s self-driving cars will hit the road this summer
Northern Californian neighborhoods are getting ready to welcome autonomous vehicle test drives to their public roads. Humans, get ready to ride shotgun. Google’s computer-driven cars will debut on the public streets of northern California this summer, according to the director of Google’s GOOG -0.90% self-driving car project Chris Urmson. Capped at 25 miles per […]
The rise of the Internet police
It was February 2012, and the then-22-year-old student learned that photos showing her naked or partially clothed were circulating on the Internet. The culprit was an ex-boyfriend she’d dated on and off for four years and had known since childhood. Photos she’d sent him during their long-distance relationship were soon posted on more than […]
Feds to cable industry “Embrace broadband competition, or else”
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler had a strong message for the cable industry at its annual conference Wednesday: Don’t interfere with broadband competition. Speaking at INTX: The Internet and Television Expo, Wheeler said the cable industry has reached a tipping point at which its broadband subscribers outnumber its pay TV subscribers. In this […]
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Miami-Dade 5k Run for Armed Forces Day May 16th
On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days. The single day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under the Department of Defense. Since then, all […]
Think there is rush hour traffic now? Express lane poles coming northbound of I-95 in Miami-Dade
Plastic poles and permanent traffic pattern changes are coming to a new stretch of Interstate 95 express lanes in northern Miami-Dade Count, but won’t start until after construction is finished this summer. At 5 a.m. Tuesday, the northbound express lane exit located north of the flyover at the Golden Glades will be closed. The […]
Self-driving car accidents revealed in California
Four out of the 48 self-driving cars on public roads in California have been involved in accidents in the last eight months, according to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency began issuing permits for the testing of autonomous vehicles in September 2014. Three of the four cars belonged to Google, the fourth […]