El Salvador has officially legalized bitcoin as legal tender (alongside the U.S. dollar which is the country’s current national currency) starting today; September 7, 2021. The...
New Orleans, Lake Tahoe, NYC – that’s just this week and just in the US… and a drought in the west that is a serious growing...
Experts say the privacy promise—ubiquitous in online services and apps—obscures the truth about how companies use personal data You’ve likely run into this claim from tech...
After Steve Bannon urged his followers to take over local-level GOP positions, the plan went viral across far-right media. One of the loudest voices urging Donald...
Extreme Weather Accelerates in Frequency and Destructive Power Ida hit Louisiana with extreme force, causing damage and mayhem, and leaving hundreds of thousands without power earlier...
We were given a warning about fossil fuels. Now we’re living it… An image from an old newspaper was shared on social media from the account...
Better than the blame game: learn and try to help There are many ways, in hindsight, to explain the seemingly sudden collapse of the local, US...
As reported from Reuters, in the 80 page new complaint, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Facebook of illegally monopolizing power. The refiled case includes...
Data stolen include names, dob, SSN, and much more! The investigation of the ongoing T-Mobile data breach has revealed some staggering information regarding the number of...
Evacuations resume with green light from Afghanistan’s new rulers Although no concrete timetable for the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies has been solidified with Taliban,...
Greg Abbott, the Republican Governor for Texas tested positive for Covid-19. The news comes in the middle of the legal battles over banning vaccination and mask...
The speed and seeming ease of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban this week shocked the world. First cities around the country fell, one after...
The FEC’s inspector general has called for the agency to review its policies and internal controls after ProPublica revealed a key employee’s undisclosed ties to Trump....
The social media giant’s powerful targeting tools appear to be part of Ben Shapiro’s success in growing his audience on the platform Ben Shapiro, co-founder of...
When the federal government enacted the CARES Act in March 2020, it boosted jobless aid and expanded the benefits to include people who weren’t typically covered,...
ProPublica drops a second monumental article based on treasure trove of IRS, SEC & court data Excellent reporting of tax injustices among the obscenely rich continues...
Possibly staged “Twitter feud over BitCoin” leads to portentous upcoming event: “THE talk” Although both Jack Dorsey, head of both Twitter and Square, and Elon Musk...
Marking the beginning of a new era of Hollywood tech glamour Somehow it is slightly disconcerting to see iconic and historic movie theaters repurposed or simply...
by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel Series:The Secret IRS FilesInside the Tax Records of the .001% This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica...
Multi-talented author and political force of nature Hearing the name Stacey Abrams, you’d likely think of a woman who ran for governor in 2020 in Georgia,...
Clickbait is not exclusive to smaller news organizations, apparently With titles like “Long Awaited UFO Report is Here” major news outlets are blowing up a leak,...
opinions & observations There’s a joke somewhere in here but it’s hard to see it through the tears Woody Allen’s onscreen counterpart, Alvy Singer, complaining about...