Monthly Archives: February 2017

By Klint Finley for WIRED. Getty Images Take Pennsylvania Democratic senator Bob Casey. He reportedly received 50,000 letters and emails opposing the nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. But its not just the election thats driving citizens to press send. The volume of email sent to Congress has been growing for years. According […]

(CNN)Donald Trump continued spending his campaign cash on personal properties even after Election Day, according to his latest campaign spending report. Trump throughout the race disbursed funds to properties like Trump resorts and on services like his personal airline. Doing so is perfectly legal, provided the campaign pays the full rate, but the payments alarmed […]

(CNN)What do you do if you find a snake in your toilet? A resident in Abilene, Texas, woke up Tuesday morning and headed to the bathroom. A rattlesnake was slithering in the toilet bowl. The family called Big Country Snake Removal. When the technician arrived, he found 24 Western diamondback rattlesnakes — 13 in the […]

A UKIP spokesman confirmed the party’s leader had now stayed overnight at the house, which Mr Nuttall was using as a base while campaigning, The spokesman added: “I am told that police are investigating. “They have not spoken to us and if and when they do, we will be perfectly happy to answer their questions.” […]

This sucks! Nicki Minaj is down $200K after her Los Angeles mansion was robbed this week! Following her selfie with Drake, it’s been revealed by TMZ that the 34-year-old’s home was completely turned inside out as thieves made off with jewelry and other pieces of property. Their law enforcement sources say there were obvious signs […]

Disruptor Beamhas raised another $8.5 million to turn some of the best-known entertainment franchises into mobile games. It released its first title, Game of Thrones Ascent, in 2013, with Star Trek Timelines following last year. (The latter offers a particularly novel approach toStar Trek, combining space combat with roleplaying elements as characters from different Trek […]

Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, alleging that they had taken his original idea and run with it, pushing him out of the company without compensation in the […]

Snapchat, which filed for its initial public offering today, sees potential risks to its business in cybersecurity and international regulation, particularly in China and the European Union. Security breaches and the privacy concerns that follow have already caused problems for Snapchat, according to its filing. The document refers to a CEO impersonation scam that occurred […]

My story is by no means unique. But it bears telling. We were lucky my father had come to the U.S. years before to train as a thoracic surgeon. Though they had to start from scratch, my family survived. They relied on the support of Americans to assimilate. Growing up hearing the stories of those […]

Lawyer says officials refused to renew ID cards for wife and children of Shakil Afridi, who helped US track and kill al-Qaida chief Pakistan has refused to grant identity cards to the family of Shakil Afridi, the jailed doctor who helped the US hunt Osama bin Laden, his lawyer has said, in effect denying them […]