NASA is opening up its research library to the public in the newly launched web database PubSpace…and it’s absolutely free. NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan believes that this move will benefit fellow scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation. “Making our research data easier to access will greatly magnify the impact of our research,” she said. […]
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John Stump, Wells Fargo, OUT as CEO Effective Immediately
John Stumpf, the chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, is retiring effective immediately. Stumpf has recently come under fire for a scandal in which 2 million credit and debit card accounts were opened by bank employees without the knowledge of customers. His successor, Tim Sloan, is chief operating officer of the firm and has been […]
Three very rich men discuss Trump, taxes, and the 1%
Pickens made the disclosure about his tax bill to CNN’s Carol Costello in a joint interview with billionaires Ken Langone and Leon Cooperman. The conversation touched on the three men’s wealth, their charitable work, and the current presidential election. Pickens, who fell off the Forbes billionaires list in 2014, said he isn’t paying taxes because […]
Sprint To Give 1 Million Low-Income Students Free Devices & Data
The Internet is a blessing to many a school-aged kid trying to get through the night’s homework assignment, but what if your home has no Internet access? It happens all too often in poorer neighborhoods, but Sprint’s new initiative will provide 1 million high school students with free devices and wireless connections. The 1Million Project […]
Bank of America warns of recession in mid 2017
There’s a chilling trend in the market, and it could wreak havoc on your portfolio, a top market watcher said. “We are seven years into a full-fledged, all out, central bankers doing everything they can to stimulate demand,” Bank of America-Merrill Lynch’s head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy Savita Subramanian recently warned on CNBC’s […]
Unlike Trump, Warren Buffet pays his taxes
Donald Trump is a master of the “I am rubber and you are glue” approach to political rhetoric, but at Sunday night’s presidential debate, he tried a novel variant on the strategy. After Anderson Cooper asked him point blank if he used his $916 million reported loss from his 1995 tax return to avoid income […]
Protect yourself from latest iPhone hack
It lets people send messages from your phone – even when it’s locked. You might have already heard about this annoying new iPhone hack: it allows people to send messages, make calls and post Facebook updates from your phone – even when it’s locked. Pranksters are using Siri to do it. They summon the voice […]
Yahoo Lets Government Scan Emails… Why?
Reuters dropped a bombshell story on Tuesday, reporting that in 2015 Yahoo agreed to scan all its users’ incoming emails on behalf of a U.S. intelligence agency, hunting for a particular “character string” and turning over messages where it found a match to the government. Yet the vagueness of the story—which appears to be based […]
EpiPen maker settles $465 million lawsuit
Sept. 21, 2016: Mylan CEO Heather Bresch holds up EpiPens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing on EpiPen price increases. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) Drugmaker Mylan will pay $465 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicaid for its life-saving EpiPen, ending one of the controversies over […]
Do we live in a matrix? Tech billionaires think so. And will pay to get us out!
Two of the technology world’s most powerful billionaires are concerned we are living in a Matrix-style simulated world and are working with scientists to break us out. In an article in The New Yorker, writer Ted Friend explains that the idea of the “simulation hypothesis” has been on the rise among tech’s elite. Neither of […]
Hillary’s Paid Speeches to Goldman Sachs Leaked
Excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s remarks during paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and other groups were leaked online Friday afternoon by WikiLeaks. Clinton, who was paid upwards of $225,000 per speech, earned more than $22 million on the paid speaking circuit after resigning as secretary of state. The excerpts are revealed in […]
Snapchat $25 billion IPO?
Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Snap Inc., the company formerly known as Snapchat, is working on an initial public offering for March that would value the company at $25 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the company’s IPO ambitions, but told Business Insider […]