Monthly Archives: February 2017

UPDATE: Ollie has been found on zoo property,the zoo announced on Twitter Wednesday evening. Previously: Our team did not recover our bobcat, Ollie, overnight so they have moved into the next phase of their recovery strategy, Devin Murphy, a spokesperson for the Smithsonians National Zoo, told The Huffington Post Wednesday. Ollie, a female bobcat weighing […]

Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and Oculus Touch controllers as the gives a demonstration during the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose on Oct. 6, 2016.Image:  David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Facebook’s Oculus has been ordered to pay $500 million after a jury found that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey […]

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and venture capitalist, leaves an elevator at Trump Tower in New York City.Image: Getty Images President Donald Trump’s man in Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel has options should his current political experiment not work out. In January, the New Zealand Herald uncovered that the infamous venture capitalist had been a New […]

Facebooks acquisition of Oculus just became a half billion more expensive. A jury in Dallas, Texas has awarded ZeniMax Media $500 millionafter finding that Palmer Luckey (and by extension Oculus VR) violated the terms of a non-disclosure agreement. The jury also found Oculus guilty oncharges related to false designation and copyright infringement. Oculus was notably […]

More than three-quarters of all recorded incidents took place in Greater London and Greater Manchester, where the two largest Jewish communities in the UK are located. According to the CST’s report: There were 1,006 incidents of abusive behaviour, including verbal abuse, hate mail and anti-Semitic graffiti Damage and desecration to Jewish property increased by a […]

But a year and a half later, she received a letter from Bellway saying her freehold had been sold to an investment company, which was now quoting 13,300 for her to buy it. “At the moment I feel completely blind and in a corner and don’t know which way to turn. There’s legal action but […]

The new camp, which protesters called Last Child Camp, is near Oceti Sakowin camp, the largest settlement of pipeline opponents. That encampment, however, is on federal land. The tribe has argued that the $3.7-billion pipeline, which is nearly complete, threatens drinking water and violates tribal rights established under an 1857 treaty. One person arrested Wednesday […]

San Francisco (CNN)Violent protests erupted at UC Berkeley on Wednesday night hours before right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. Black-clad protestors could be seen throwing fireworks at police and at the student union center on the Berkeley campus where the Breitbart editor’s event was to be held. They were also seen tearing down […]

North Dakota police arrested 76 people one day after federal officials suggested that the government could soon approve the final stage of pipeline construction North Dakota police have arrested 76 people at Standing Rock one day after federal officials suggested that the government could issued an order demanding the revival of the Dakota Access pipeline […]

Land totaling the size of Connecticut has been targeted in a new bill in the Republican House, uniting hunters and conservationists in opposition Now that Republicans have quietly drawn a path to step two in the GOPs plan to offload federal property. The new piece of legislation would direct the interior secretary to immediately sell […]