Mitt Romney, the former GOP presidential nominee being considered for secretary of State, praised President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night after a dinner in New York. “I happen to think that America’s best days are ahead of us,” Romney said after dinner, according to pool reports. “I think you’re going […]
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that saves copies of old web pages, is creating a backup of its database in Canada, in response to the election of Donald Trump. “On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change,” the organization wrote in a blogpost […]
Japan spending $173M on world’s fastest supercomputer The international supercomputer race may soon have a new contender: Japan is reportedly eyeing the world’s fastest-ever machine. Reuters this week revealed the country’s plans to spend ¥19.5 billion ($173 million) on the construction of a machine capable of making 130 quadrillion calculations […]
The incident comes a little more than a month after a similar assault on connected devices worldwide that led to a massive denial-of-service attack that took down a number of high-profile web services for users mainly in the U.S. and Europe. Deutsche Telekom said on Monday that its initial investigation […]
Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger’s new Instant Games, like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Available right from your message threads, they load in seconds since they’re built on the HTML5 mobile web […]
Cyber attacks on Chinese companies have soared in the past two years, according to a survey, with new technologies that connect household items to the internet and allow them to receive and send data seen as particularly vulnerable. The average number of cyber attacks detected by companies in mainland China […]
The doomed LaMia jet that was carrying a Brazilian pro soccer team when it crashed in Colombia was a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 plane. The RJ85’s range is around 1842 miles when equipped with standard fuel tanks, according to Airliners.net. But according to data from Flightradar, the plane that crashed […]
The app, Boycott Trump, features more than 250 businesses tied to Trump, breaking down how they’re connected for consumers who no longer want to spend their money on any of his ventures. The app was created by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, an extension of the political action committee Keep […]
WASHINGTON — Elaine Chao of Kentucky, who was Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, was named to be the next Transportation Secretary Tuesday night by President-elect Donald Trump. “Secretary Chao’s extensive record of strong leadership and her expertise are invaluable assets in our mission to rebuild our infrastructure […]
LOS ANGELES – Authorities say a car has shot off the side of a Los Angeles freeway and landed in a homeless camp, killing one person and injuring three others. The accident took place just before 6:15 p.m. Tuesday on the southbound Interstate 405 at Sherman Way in Van Nuys. […]
