Judge Throws Out Ex-Penn State President’s Conviction

Graham Spanier was forced out shortly after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested in 2011.

Tesla sued over fatal 2018 Model X crash with Autopilot engaged

Last spring, Apple engineer Walter Huang aka Wei Lun Huang died in a crash when his Tesla Model X hit a median on Highway 101 in Mountain View while the car’s Autopilot driving assist was engaged. Now ABC 7 News and NBC Bay Area report that Huang’s f…

Purism Librem One offers “ethical” chat, email, social media services

News today is filled with stories of how Big Tech, companies like Facebook, Google, or Amazon, repeatedly violate their own users’ privacy, intentionally or otherwise. One big problem, however, is how we’ve become so dependent on their apps and services that it’s nearly impossible to break free. And while there are indeed more privacy-focused alternatives, setting those up sometimes feels … Continue reading

Downtown Davenport, Iowa Floods After Temporary Levees Fail

Downtown Davenport, Iowa flooded after HESCO barriers in the region failed sometime around 3:30 p.m. local time as the Mississippi River rose to nearly 22 feet, with no injuries reported but authorities and volunteers having to rescue some people by boat, the Quad-City Times reported on Tuesday.

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Barr Says He Couldn’t Release Report Without Clearing Trump Of Obstruction

The attorney general will tell senators the Justice Department should “stand apart from the political process.”

Yankees Pitcher CC Sabathia Makes Baseball History With 3,000th Strikeout

Sabathia is just the 17th pitcher to reach the milestone.

Youth Suicide Attempts Have Dramatically Increased, New Data Shows

“Something is happening in adolescents that hasn’t happened before,” says an author of the study.

SEC and Elon Musk tweet agreement gets a judge's seal of approval

Elon Musk now knows exactly what Tesla information he can tweet without getting in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to The Wall Street Journal, US District Judge Alison Nathan has signed off on the agreement the executiv…

Android TV isn’t dead yet, new hardware coming soon

It almost seems as if Android is fated to forever remain a smartphone platform all the way to the end of its life. While it does have various incarnations in wearables, automobiles, and TVs, those don’t seem to gain as much traction as Android’s true smartphone form. Android TV, in particular, seems to have been left by the wayside in … Continue reading

Ingress the Animation is finally out on Netflix worldwide

Before it became famous for Pokemon GO, Niantic Labs, which at one point was also a Google property, tried to make a name for itself with Ingress, a mobile augmented reality sci-fi game. It had its share of fans but the high-concept game and almost unexciting mechanics made it a little difficult to get started and get hooked. Since then, … Continue reading