MARCH 7, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. - Chesnot / Getty Images
That much was clear from a post CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared on Wednesday outlining the company’s newly stated direction. Intimate, encrypted, private messaging services like WhatsApp and Messenger are in. Facebook’s semi-public, not-very-private News Feed is out.
“I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services...
MARCH 7, 2019
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, sued the Trump Organization, saying the company stopped paying his legal fees in June 2018 and breached a contract to repay him for litigation expenses.
The suit filed Thursday is likely to prolong the bitter feud between the two men as Cohen heads to prison in May. Cohen, who...
MARCH 7, 2019
Autonomous vehicles may have more difficulty detecting pedestrians with dark skin than those with light skin. - Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests autonomous driving systems may have more difficulty detecting pedestrians with dark skin than those with light skin.
The researchers analyzed how effective image-detection systems were...
MARCH 7, 2019
POUNDBURY, DORSET - Queen Elizabeth II tours Queen Mother Square on October 27, 2016 in Poundbury, Dorset. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
It’s 2019 — you can’t unlock your phone without reading about Jordyn Woods; shipping Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper is the internet’s favorite pastime; and Queen Elizabeth is a casual ‘grammer.
The Queen, 92, wrote her...
MARCH 7, 2019
China has praised Pakistan for its handling of the tense situation with India, appreciating Islamabad’s “restraint” in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir in February.
The Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday released a statement in Chinese following the visit of vice-foreign minister Kong Xuanyou to Pakistan, lauding Islamabad’s response.
“China has paid close attention...
MARCH 6, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. - Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a post today (March 6) outlining what he calls a “privacy-focused vision for social networking.” That sounds nice, until you realize that his definition of “privacy” is…...
MARCH 6, 2019
President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
The President's crusade to grant clearances to his daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, rankled West Wing officials.
While Trump...
MARCH 6, 2019
Plastic bag contamination is trashing recycling programs - WUSA9
The world’s recycling market has been flipped on its financial head, and the impact has finally reached your curbside.
In small towns from Virginia to New Hampshire, local leaders are looking at the numbers and beginning to pull the plug.
Meanwhile, the major jurisdictions around the Washington D.C. area remain committed...
MARCH 6, 2019
When anti-government protests erupted on Russia’s side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something they’d never done before: cut mobile internet service to an entire geographical area.
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of mainly Muslim Russians were prevented from accessing social media sites and sharing videos through their smartphones. Unlike China, where control of...
MARCH 5, 2019
A portrait of Donald Trump hangs on the wall at the New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., in this 2016 photo. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order...
