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Philly Police Admit They Disguised a Spy Truck as a Google Streetview Car
On May 15th, 2016 with 44 comments
Nollij writes:From Motherboard:The Philadelphia Police Department admitted...
Help! We're Being Crushed, Cry Billionaire Cable Giants
On May 18th, 2016 with 53 comments
Phoenix666 writes:US cable carriers are crying foul against the Federal...
BMW's Vision for a World of Connected Cars
On May 24th, 2016 with 22 comments
Phoenix666 writes:As you're brushing your teeth in the morning you monitor a...
Alibaba Lures Chinese Shoppers Into VR With Virtual Celebrity Dates
On May 24th, 2016 with 6 comments
Phoenix666 writes:In Chinese Internet and text slang, "520" means "I love...
New Apple Store: An Example of Evolving Retail?
On May 24th, 2016 with 54 comments
Phoenix666 writes: A new kind of Apple Store is opening on Saturday.Across the...
Microsoft Slashes Nearly 2,000 Jobs as its Smartphone Business Crumbles
On May 25th, 2016 with 36 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Microsoft is taking an ax to its smartphone business.The...
Gov't Report: Feds Spend Billions to Run Ancient Technology
On May 26th, 2016 with 66 comments
Phoenix666 writes:The government is spending about three-fourths of its...
Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in U.S.
On May 27th, 2016 with 21 comments
Phoenix666 writes: The number of U.S. jobs in solar energy overtook those in...
Study Finds That People Are Not Really Interested in Self-Driving Cars
On May 27th, 2016 with 63 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Henry Ford is reputed to have said "If I had asked people...
Comcast? No Universal Gigabit Service? No Tax Break!
On May 28th, 2016 with 34 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes: El Reg reports The US state of Oregon says it will...
Caltech Sues Apple Over Alleged Wi-Fi Patent Infringement
On June 1st, 2016 with 18 comments
takyon writes:...
The Basic Income Experiment by Y Combinator Draws Nearer
On June 2nd, 2016 with 27 comments
Gordon Shure writes:The highly-anticipated experiment with basic income from...
The Car of the Near Future: 4x More Lines of Code than an F-35
On June 5th, 2016 with 59 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:The Boston Globe reports on this year's New England...
GNU Enters Fiat Banking
On June 7th, 2016 with 55 comments
Demose writes:GNU has set plans to challenge the likes of PayPal and national...
Bitcoin Price Soars Prior to Reward Halving
On June 14th, 2016 with 34 comments
Snow writes: Sometime around July 10th, Bitcoin's block reward will decrease...
In Pollution Crackdown, Paris to Ban Older-Model Cars
On June 14th, 2016 with 47 comments
n1 writes:Paris doesn't want your dirty old car polluting its streets anymore....
Under Attack, Lawyer For Uber Drivers Slashes Fees by $10 Million
On June 15th, 2016 with 7 comments
takyon writes:Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who negotiated a $100 million...
Hey Credit Card Companies: Its Supposed to be Chip AND Pin
On June 17th, 2016 with 74 comments
frojack writes:Why, 8 months after the deadline for Chip and Pin credit cards...
Ammon, Idaho: City-Owned Fiber; Service Providers Compete (Pilot Program)
On June 19th, 2016 with 29 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes: Ars Technica reports The city of Ammon, Idaho, is...
Chattanooga Mayor: Gigabit Speed Internet Helped Revive City
On June 21st, 2016 with 14 comments
Phoenix666 writes:When Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke describes his city's...
Maine Town Plans to Become "Gigabit Island" [Updated]
On June 23rd, 2016 with 13 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes:El Reg reports:A small community on an island off the...
Problems at the Panama Canal Expansion
On June 24th, 2016 with 20 comments
Anne Nonymous writes:A second, parallel, Panama Canal opened for traffic...
U.S. Senators Introduce National GMO Labeling Plan
On June 24th, 2016 with 20 comments
takyon writes: U.S. senators have reached a deal that would require food...
Google Fiber Buys Webpass ISP
On June 25th, 2016 with 4 comments
takyon writes:Google Fiber has bought Webpass, an ISP that already runs a...
"Automated Lawyer" Overturns More Than $2.5 Million in Parking Tickets
On June 29th, 2016 with 18 comments
takyon writes:Joshua Browder has set up a service that has led users to...
HP/HPE's Memristor: Probably Dead
On June 29th, 2016 with 20 comments
takyon writes: Don't count on memristor technology ever making it out of HPE...
Google Offices Raided in Spain; Elizabeth Warren Goes After Silicon Valley
On July 2nd, 2016 with 24 comments
takyon writes:Google's Madrid, Spain offices have been raided as part of a...
Three Convicted in Libor Rigging Trial
On July 7th, 2016 with 22 comments
n1 writes:Three former Barclays employees have been found guilty of rigging...
Mozilla Could Walk Away from a New Yahoo Owner and Still Get $1 Billion
On July 8th, 2016 with 21 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Under terms of a contract that has been seen by...
Ignorance is bliss.
-- Thomas Gray
Fortune updates the great quotes, #42:
BLISS is ignorance.
