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Silicon Valley is so expensive that even Facebook and Apple employees cant afford to live near the office
Silicon Valley's housing crisis is serious. A new report from Open Listings reveals that workers at five major tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, and Google, would have to spend over 28% of their salary to pay a monthly mortgage on a home near wo ...[Read more]
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Google’s simulated robots learn some seriously strange behavior
Teaching a robot how to walk and jump is one thing, but how about a bot with a knack for dragging its backside across the floor or sliding forward on its nose. These rather unusual behaviors emerged during Google's testing of a new technique to allow simu ...[Read more]
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Thousands of Americans jailed for debts chased by private collectors
An estimated 77 million Americans have a debt that has been transferred to a private collection agency. Thousands end up in jails. African Americans and Hispanics are most affected, due to acknowledged gaps in poverty and wealth. ...[Read more]
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Research finds Facebook holds personally identifiable data on 40% of EU population
The study reveals that Facebook labels over 73 percent of its EU users with interests linked to sensitive personal data, which corresponds to 40 percent of the overall EU population. This means that the data of around 205 million Europeans isn’t complet ...[Read more]
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Report Confirms Israel Has Been Secretly Funding Syrian Rebels For Years
A key piece of data, one which was just revealed by the WSJ and which many had suspected has come to light regarding Israel and ISIS. According to the Journal, Israel and Saudi Arabia have been aligned from the onset of the Syrian conflict, “with Israel ...[Read more]
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They Always Wanted Trump
New Hampshire was a lost cause, and her team knew it. So instead of watching Clinton deliver a speech, members of her senior team huddled around a television in the room that served as a home base for campaign chairman John Podesta, manager Robby Mook, ch ...[Read more]
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Great, Unless You Want Actually Functioning Infrastructure
The plan’s private partnership model will pour public funds into corporate coffers. President Trump’s new plan just orders everything on the menu, leaves after a few bites, and sticks taxpayers with the bill. Not only does his 50-page plan offer no ne ...[Read more]
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Until there are facts on election meddling, its all just blather Lavrov on Mueller indictment
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has again dismissed claims of Russian meddling in the US election, saying that until facts are presented by Washington, they are nothing but “blather.” ...[Read more]
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Jeremy Corbyn says Britain has not fought a just war since 1945
Britain has not fought in a just conflict since the Second World War, Jeremy Corbyn has said. During a speech at Chatham House in London, the Labour leader was asked about British deployment of troops to areas of conflict since the end of the Second Worl ...[Read more]
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Israel to Deny Benefits for Pro-BDS Citizens, Local Groups
The government will create a blacklist for local individuals and groups known to support the pro-Palestinian boycott movement against Israel. Israel is ramping up its crackdown on the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as the gover ...[Read more]
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Tensions Between Turkey and the US Escalate in Syria
Both NATO countries have suggested the possibility of clashes between them. United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is visiting Turkey this week, and he's likely to find himself in an unfriendly environment. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan s ...[Read more]
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