- The 5 Biggest Questions About the Universe
Despite the countless hours that astronomers spend at the blackboard, a handful of cosmic questions continue to keep scientists up at night (for those who aren't up at night already, peering skyward). - NBA Hall of Famer: 'We Need to Go Save Our Mothers, Sisters, Grandmas'
- Why Millennials Are Embracing France's Far Right
- 50 Photos That Shaped 2016
- Deadly Weekend in Chicago: 5 Killed, 57 Injured
- The Taliban Harbored Bin Laden. Obama Promised to Defeat Them. He Didn't.
As a candidate, he pledged to run insurgents out of Afghanistan. But to the dismay of millions of Afghans, the war has not been won or even finished. - Contrast Between Obama and Trump Is 'Unprecedented': Experts
- Fact Checking Trump's Job Creation Claims
- Left in the Lurch: Democrats' Curious Decline
- Dear Mr. President: Letters From the American People
- Obama Leaves Behind a Tainted Legacy on Immigration
- This Was President Obama's 'Biggest Disappointment'
- Astronomers Make Strange Discovery on Pluto's Largest Moon
- Putin's Sassy Trolling Sent Message to Trump: Experts
- Why Did Dinosaurs Die Out? Answer Could Be in Their Teeth
- President Trump Signs First Executive Order — on Obamacare
The executive order is aimed at "minimizing the economic burden" of the health care law "pending repeal," and says Trump's policy is prompt repeal. - Protecting the President: Secret Weapons and a Hefty Price Tag
- Meet the Trumps: A New and Unconventional First Family
- Taking the Pulse of Black America at Inauguration
- What the Death of Virginia's 'Bathroom Bill' Means for LGBTQ Rights
- Could Trump Shut Down a Russia Hack Probe?
- President Trump: Scenes from the Inauguration
- What the World Is Saying About Trump's Inauguration
- Watch Donald Trump Take Oath of Office for President
- Full Coverage of Donald Trump's Presidential Inauguration
- 'In This Together': Women March in Cities Around World
Organizers expect more than 200,000 demonstrators to gather in Washington D.C. today to march in support of gender, health care, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and immigration issues. The event is seen as taking place in direct opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump and follows an Inaugur... - Four Dead as Miss. Tornado Wreaks 'Extensive Damage'
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- Analysis: Trump Promises a Presidency Like No Other
- Protester Punches White Nationalist Richard Spencer on Camera
- 16 Killed as Teens' School Trip Ends in Fiery Bus Crash
- Trump Celebrates at Inaugural Balls, Says 'Now the Work Begins'
- Watch President Trump and First Lady's First Dance
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Tech News
- Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp “backdoor” story
A thirty-strong group of security researchers have co-signed an open letter calling for the Guardian to retract a story it published last week that had claimed mobile messaging app WhatsApp contains a “backdoor”. The newspaper suggests users switch to the Signal app instead. Read More - Accel names Luciana Lixandru as its newest partner
Accel, the VC firm that has been involved in some of the biggest deals in the most recent tech boom — startups backed include Facebook, Supercell, Dropbox, Deliveroo, Slack and Atlassian, Spotify, Flipkart and many more — has appointed a new partner, Luciana Lixandru. Her rise at Accel — she was pr... - The cost of hot selfie app Meitu? A healthy dose of your personal info
- Crunch Report | Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Raised $100 Millon
- Unboxing six gadgets from CES 2017
- Facebook is looking at ways to mitigate the impact of fake news
Fake news has been top of mind for a lot of people as of late. After the presidential election in the U.S. and public outcry over the prevalence of false information on Facebook, the company announced measures to prevent fake news from appearing on the platform. But there are still concerns about t... - Trump ditched his Android phone and probably won’t give you his new number
Trump’s an unorthodox sort with, by most accounts, a fairly tenuous grasp on modern technologies. Until relatively recently, there was a seemingly open question regarding whether the soon-to-be sworn in leader of the free world ever actually used a computer. But the guy loves his smartphone. Since ... - Amazon puts virtual Dash buttons on its homepage
- Sony brings support for 360-degree YouTube video to PlayStation VR
- Brits afraid for their personal data under President Trump, poll finds
- Your guide to Donald Trump’s inauguration
- Tesla now offers a 100D Model S and Model X with extended range
- Samsung reportedly concludes ‘irregularly sized’ batteries caused Galaxy Note 7 explosions
- Rocket Internet closes $1B fund, the largest out of Europe to date
- In a tech-saturated world, customer feedback is everything
I’ve found that the most valuable design tool in the 21st century is rather old-fashioned: customer feedback. Technology has produced huge breakthroughs in design. A product can be ideated, prototyped and finalized with little more than a keyboard and code. But the ingenuity of modern design often ... - Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering
Singhal will be heading up the Maps and Marketplace departments at Uber, while also advising CEO Travis Kalanick and Uber VP of Engineering and Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski on their efforts to build out the company’s self-driving technology. The last time we in tech news circles heard from S... - Ford begins testing Transit Plug-in Hybrids in London ahead of 2019 production
- Twitter’s latest feature tries to identify your BFF
- Payments startup Dwolla raises $6.85M more, debuts Access API
- Buzzvil acquires Slidejoy for a lockscreen ad consolidation
- Anti-Trump protestors are outside of Uber’s SF headquarters
- Despite glitches, AT&T’s DirecTV Now hits 200,000 subscribers in its first month
- With ‘Dear Angelica,’ Oculus finds a story worthy of the VR medium
- “Track Trump” will compare Trump’s promises to policy changes in the first 100 days
A new website called Track Trump has launched to monitor the progress President Trump makes on fulfilling his promises for his first 100 days in office. At the end of October, Trump released a plan called “Donald Trump’s Contract With The American Voter,” which focuses on cleaning up Washington, pr... - FishTaco can analyze your microbiome before or after you eat a fish taco
Our microbiomes: who understands them? Scientists? The bacteria colonizing our guts? The guy who made the Mexican food we just ate? Wrong. It’s our computers. Researchers have tasked them to create a new way to analyze and understand our microbiomes electronically. The service is called “Functional... - Google wants to make YouTube a better place for advertisers
- The Edge Desk goes beyond the ball with a portable ergonomic desk system
- President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS
- Uber hires former YouTube exec Kevin Thompson as VP of Marketplace Engineering
- The official White House website has dropped any mention of climate change
- The White House’s LGBT rights page has disappeared
- Quixey alums launch Sigma, a platform to bring merits and certifications online
- FLYR raised $8 million to change the way we buy plane tickets
Travel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million in Series A funding for technology that predicts the price of airfare by applying artificial intelligence to a database of both open industry data and a proprietary collection of years of past prices and fluctuations. The funding round was led by a Peter T... - Obama returns to his original Twitter handle and launches Obama.org
Former ( ) President Obama is heading off for a well-earned vacation, but before going to his undisclosed but hopefully sunny and isolated location, he took to his old personal Twitter handle, @BarackObama, to promote the launch of his new website, Obama.org. Read More - Casual dating app Down acquired by Paktor
- How to fail at Kickstarter — even if you get funded
- Twitter just can’t let go of Vine, launches an online archive
- Amazon’s latest Dash button will send you a randomly assorted box of candy
- Apple files a billion-dollar royalty suit against Qualcomm
- Weekly Roundup: Zuckerberg defends Oculus in court, Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence
- Come on, let’s go to Pluto
- What You Need to Know About the Tech Pay Gap and Job Posts
We know there are more men than women in tech careers, and we know there’s a wage gap. But a recent report conducted by Comparably found something interesting — as professionals age, the gender gap decreases. While there is a 29 percent difference in salaries between men and women entering the tech... - Defense and Homeland Security Secretaries confirmed controlling $86.7 billion in tech spending
As the nation’s capital prepared to celebrate the inauguration of the nation’s 45th President, Senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Retired Generals James (“Mad Dog”) Mattis and John F. Kelly were app... - Crunch Report | Apple Suing Qualcomm for $1 Billion
- A Twitter glitch autofollowed some users to Trump’s @POTUS by mistake
- Sundance merges VR with real life through props, AR, and vibrating suits
- Wearables have got some work to do this year
- Look, a nice round candy-colored mechanical keyboard
- Recommendations on cyber security for the 45th president… Use more hackers
- Lobster nets £1M to scale its user-generated content licensing marketplace
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