Jan 18
Obama’s has a new portrait to kick off his second term as POTUS, and it is an exercise in pure and simple portrait photography. Here is a rundown of what photographer Pete Souza used to snap the soon-to-be iconic pic. More »
Jan 11
President Obama has finally signed a bill which allows you to legally share information about which videos you’re watching on Netflix direct to Facebook. More »
Dec 10
Scientists Have Discovered An Ancient Lizard That Lived with the Dinosaurs and Named It Obamadon After Obama
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Yale scientists have discovered an ancient, small, insect-eating lizard in the badlands of Montana and have named it Obamadon, after President Obama. The lizard, which is less than a foot long and had “elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw”, existed 65 million years ago. More »
Dec 04
Obama signs Safe Web Act into law, extends FTC power to combat online scam artists
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See that guy? The one in the bubble? He’s probably up to no good. Thanks to President Obama, however, he’s going to have a much harder time duping innocent young ladies like the one also shown here. Per The Hill, the POTUS has just signed into law the Safe Web Act, which extends the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to “clamp down on Internet fraud and online scammers based abroad.” In simpler terms, it enables the entity to share data about “cross-border online fraud with foreign law enforcement authorities” through September of 2020. According to an unnamed official within the FTC, the existing edition of this act has allowed it to conduct over 100 investigations into cross-border fraud and scam, but it’s unclear how much crime was stopped and how many people were needlessly annoyed. We kid, we kid.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Next Web
Source: The Hill
Dec 03
Nov 26
Let’s speak about this one more time because, now that the new Federal budget is coming up, we need to. The government should, must, dedicate a lot more money to NASA. And there’s no way around it. More »
Nov 15
Inside Obama’s Tech Team
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There sure was plenty of tech involved in Obama’s election campaign—including millions of virtual elections which were used to predict the future—but until now the team behind it has gone uncelebrated. More »
Nov 15
Obama has signed a highly secret directive which will allow the military to act more aggressively when it comes to stopping cyber attacks striking the US. More »
Nov 08
This photo, along with the simple caption “Four more years” became the most tweeted and most liked on Facebook photograph ever, and it did so with incredible speed. We thought you’d like to hear the story behind it. It’s probably not what you imagined. More »
Nov 07
It’s not just Twitter that saw an astronomical boost from last night’s electoral dance—Instagram completely exploded as soon as Obama clinched presidential victory. In a huge way. More »
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