April Fools’ Day: the best day of the year. Everyone is pranking one another, having a good time, laughing, and nobody is ever annoyed or angry in the slightest. It’s the perfect day! I love pranks and I am always down for a good one. But sometimes the pranks, unfortunately, do not go as planned. Here are four April Fools’ Day pranks I pulled that went very […]
After slamming NBC’s coverage of the “Fake Trump/Russia story”, congratulating the NYTimes for “finally getting it” on Obamacare, Trump on Saturday commented on the previously discussed Fox News story about a “very senior, very well known” U.S. intelligence official who was allegedly involved in unmasking the names of Trump associates, and who had reprotedly surveilled Trump before the nomination. “Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news. Source: ‘Official […]
FAISALABAD: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Saturday said the verdict on the Panama Papers case was expected very soon, which would shatter the evil designs of PTI Chairman Imran Khan Talking to the media, he said Imran should cool down and prepare himself for the third marriage, instead of hatching conspiracies against the elected government of the PML-N. Regarding former president Asif […]
Once upon a time Washington was simple: on one hand you had Republican interests, on the other: Democrats, and inbetween them perhaps, the occasional independent or “green.” Now… it’s less simple. At last check, DC currently boasts at least nine different parties, groups, factions or ideologies. Which is why keeping track of who wants what, and how the various groups allign, in US politics has become quite […]
Posted April 02, 2017 05:06:27 Photo: The landslide hit 23 houses as well as farmers harvesting ginger on a hillside. (AP: Firdaus) Related Story: Bali landslide leaves 12 people dead Related Story: Death toll from Indonesia floods, landslides rises to 47 Rescuers have searched for more than two dozen people missing after a rain-triggered landslide struck a village on Indonesia’s main island of Java. One body was […]
April Fools’ Day is the only “fake news” day that’s almost welcome. Almost. And one of the longstanding masters of the tech prank, Google, is at it again with a fresh batch of trickery. This year, the jokes are more obviously fake this time around in what appears to be an effort to avoid anyone actually thinking these products actually exist. Nevertheless, some of these products […]
THE National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) expressed its keenness to be “flexible” in discussing the provisions of the Government of the Republic of the Philippine’s (GRP) demand to have a bilateral ceasefire agreement to end armed hostilities. “The NDFP negotiating panel is willing to be flexible and is open to discuss with its counterpart what kind of bilateral ceasefire agreement is desired by the GRP […]
It would not be a Saturday morning if President Trump did not take to Twitter to vent about his latest grievance. This time he took aim at NBC News and in particular Chuck Todd… When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2017 It is the […]
Chat is nothing new in business (or even new to Microsoft), but it’s heading out of the technical department and the personal chat clients, and into the wider workforce. Microsoft Teams has some obvious similarities to Slack and HipChat and the other business chat services, but it has a different focus. This is chat for teams of people in your business who already use Office 365 tools […]
I remember the halcyon days when April Fools’ Day was a bit of harmless fun. We’d read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone. We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake […]
TOKYO Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Google have joined bidding for Toshiba’s (6502.T) NAND flash memory unit, vying with others for the Japanese firm’s prized semiconductor operation, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Saturday. Toshiba shareholders on Thursday agreed to split off its NAND flash memory business, paving the way for a sale to raise at least $9 billion to cover U.S. nuclear unit charges […]
PONOROGO, Indonesia – More than two dozen people were reported missing on Saturday after a rain-triggered landslide struck a village on Indonesia’s main island of Java. The landslide hit up to 30 houses and farmers harvesting ginger on a hillside in Banaran village in East Java province’s Ponorogo district, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency. The local mitigation agency said 27 people […]
Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com, If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing degradation of the American economy since the last financial crisis, you’re probably flabbergasted by the fact that our economy has managed to make it this far without imploding. I know I am. I find myself shocked with every year that passes without incident. The warning signs are there for anyone willing to see, […]
O’Keefe said Project Veritas’ lawyer, Benjamin Barr, is submitting complaints and requests for investigation to the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FEC. O’Keefe provided the Center for Public Integrity with copies of the letters from Barr to the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission. The letters state the creators of the PAC “fraudulently misrepresented […]
Panama has a new tourist attraction: the building hosting the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal. That is why, workers there say, the sign announcing the firm has been taken down from where it used to be outside the dark-tinted edifice in Panama City’s modern banking district. Too many tourists were stopping to take selfies in front of […]
Silicon Valley tech companies should do more to help media companies get subscribers and revenues – this was the gist from six panelists discussing “Journalism + Silicon Valley: The Balance of Power” at a recent event in San Francisco organized by the Tow Center for Digital Journalists. The event marked the release of Tow Center’s report: “The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism |” It is […]
California is known far and wide for it’s wacky regulations. In fact, just last fall we wrote about SB 1383, a very significant piece of legislation signed into law by Jerry Brown which requires a 40% reduction in methane gas emissions from cow flatulence by 2030 (no, really…you can take a look here: “Here Are Some Of The Ridiculous New State Laws That Will Take Effect January […]
Prime Minister Najib Razak is said to be cosying up to the superstar to win votes ahead of the 2018 general election Rajini is Tamil cinema’s biggest star and the race makes up 80% of the Malaysian population The pair finally met this week after years of clashing schedules See more news from India at www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome By Akshaya Nath Published: 18:55 EDT, 31 March 2017 | Updated: […]
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is officially out of the bag, and it’s one of the most powerful smartphones of 2017, rocking top-notch specs and features all around. The latest Samsung flagship is bound to go head-to-head with other high-end smartphones racing for the top spot, so let’s see how it stacks up against Apple’s iPhone 7 from last year and the recently released LG G6. Samsung Galaxy […]
After centuries of getting around primarily via horses, many people viewed the first automobiles with apprehension. This newfangled “horseless carriage” was considered too fast and dangerous to ever catch on. In the late 19th century, England even had a law called the Red Flag Act, which required self-propelled vehicles to be led at walking pace by someone waving a red flag. In 1895, the New […]
RBC’s head of cross asset strategy Charlie McElligott dons his full wonksh equity analyst hat today, exposing “The April Effect,” and the specific risk of “nasty double whammy” of levered long-short unwinds should momentum stall. Quick note of warning as we transition into the new quarter, with potential for major thematic / sector / factor reversals in stocks. The following observation regarding April seeing a seasonal ‘momentum’ […]
ENMAYÚSCULA, (AFP).– Un año después de la publicación de los “Panama Papers”, una abogada del bufete involucrado en el escándalo aseguró que todas las sociedades creadas fueron constituidas dentro de la legalidad. “No existe el delito, porque no se blanqueó dinero, se constituyeron sociedades dentro del marco de la ley y se guardó la debida diligencia”, dijo a la AFP Marlene Guerra, una de las abogadas del […]
Kingston’s Data Traveler is among only a handful of drives certified to work with Windows To Go. Can you imagine being a modern business traveler on a 12-hour transcontinental flight without access to a portable PC or even a tablet? I can’t either. And yet that’s the unpleasant reality the Trump administration has forced on some passengers who are booked on nonstop flights to the United States […]
It may be the fastest transition from a “hawkish” to “dovish” stance by a Fed talking head in history, after New York Fed President Bill Dudley went from “it is important not to overreact to every short-term wiggle in financial markets” and predicting “gradual rate hikes for the rest of the year” yesterday after the close, to “the Fed is in no rush to hike” in an […]
