California Becomes 10th State to Issue Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
Landmark legislation signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown last year is now permitting undocumented immigrants to apply for California driver’s licenses. The Los Angeles Times reports that applicants...
View ArticleUber Is Going to Eat Your Children: The Top Tech Trends for 2015
The tech industry constantly unleashes thrilling ideas that race through the population like pink eye in a preschool. Some of them, like e-commerce and the Long Tail, have staying power. Others look...
View ArticleWatch Live Tonight: The 2015 Quadrantid Meteor Shower
The first meteor shower of 2015 peaks tonight, but an almost-full moon might wash out the brightest meteors, making for poor viewing conditions. Still, the show is worth checking out; NASA reports that...
View ArticleRepublicans Ready to Battle Obama on Energy, Cuba, Immigration
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - Republicans take full control of the Congress this week with an agenda of trying to force approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and push back on President Barack...
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The Year Ahead in Space: What’s Next?
In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space,...
View ArticleUK's David Cameron Will Move EU Referendum Forward if Possible
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday he would like to bring forward a planned referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union from 2017 if possible.Under pressure from Eurosceptic...
View ArticleWeather Frustrates AirAsia Search Divers, No 'Pings' Detected
Bad weather forced divers trying to identify sunken wreckage from a crashed AirAsia passenger jet to abort their mission on Sunday and Indonesian officials said they had not yet picked up any signals...
View ArticleForget 2015 — 2050 Is The Year For Predictions
Government groups and research agencies have chosen 2050 as the year to look towards. “It’s a nice round number,” as Kostas Stamoulis, the director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division of...
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NYPD Back-Turning Protests Continue at Funeral for Slain Officer
Thousands of law enforcement officers, family members, politicians and onlookers convened in Brooklyn on a drizzly Sunday morning to mourn the death of Wenjian Liu, 32, one of two New York City police...
View ArticleBoko Haram Seizes Army Base in Northeast Nigeria
Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday.Baga is notionally the headquarters of a multinational force comprising...
View ArticleRepublican Huckabee Quits Fox News as He Considers 2016 White House Bid
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said on Saturday that he was leaving his weekly Fox News show so he can explore a 2016 presidential bid.Huckabee, who vied for the Republican presidential...
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The Action in 'The Missing'
“What you have seen, no father should ever see,” French detective Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) tells Irish father Tony Hughes (James Nesbitt) about halfway through Starz’s mystery series The Missing....
View ArticleFighting With Guerrilla Theater After the Death of Eric Garner
A young black man stands in front of the New York Police Department’s headquarters in Times Square. A crowd gathers around him and starts humming in harmony. “This congregation has come together to...
View ArticleNetflix Brings Down Hammer on VPN and Proxy Users
Our favorite television binge-watching enabler, Netflix, is blocking users attempting to access the video streaming service internationally by using circumvention services proxies, virtual private...
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The Wild, Wild Web: How To Catch Cybercrooks
When cybercriminals can easily buy cheap hacking programs with exotic names like Fiesta, Lucky, Nuke, Siberia, Sploit, Tornado, Sweet Orange and Cool, what chance that anything online can remain safe?...
View ArticleFirst Transgender Mayor Elected in Central India
A city in central India has elected the country's first transgender mayor, nine months after a court ruled that transgender be recognized as a legal third gender, local media reported.Madhu Kinnar, 35,...
View ArticleUK's Prince Andrew Steps Up Denial of Underage Sex
Buckingham Palace stepped up its denial that Prince Andrew had sex with an underage girl introduced to him by a disgraced U.S. financier, and named the alleged victim whose anonymity was preserved in...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Bombing Trial to Begin With Jury Selection
Some 1,200 potential jurors are due to report to federal court in Boston beginning on Monday as selection begins for the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that...
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Lessons Cuba Can Learn From East Germany
The transformation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) has important lessons for Cuba as the island opens up to increased banking, agriculture and telecommunications exchange with...
View ArticleNew Tree-Shaped Wind Turbine to Be Installed On the Streets of Paris
French company NewWind are to introduce tree-shaped wind turbines to the streets of Paris this March. It hopes the invention will be a visually appealing, urban alternative to traditional turbine...
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