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Typhoon Soudelor, once the year’s strongest storm, roars ashore in Taiwan
Typhoon Soudelor is approaching landfall in Taiwan as one of the strongest storms to hit that island nation in several years. As of Friday morning at 5 a.m. ET, the storm was the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane, with … Continue reading
Fox News web stream and mobile app fail during GOP debate
If you were hoping to settle in for Thursday’s second GOP debate online or in the Fox News app for iOS, you were out of luck. For most of the debate, the live stream was unavailable through official Fox sources. … Continue reading
What’s it like to be a high school principal?
This question originally appeared on Quora. What is it like to be a high school principal? Answer below by Quora user James Bailey, high school principal of 22 years. I rarely get asked this question. Seriously People usually make a … Continue reading
Dashcam video sheds light on 2013 police shooting of unarmed black man
Dashboard footage and a second officer’s testimony have given new insight in the trial of a Charlotte police officer accused of shooting and killing an unarmed black man, who was looking for help after a car crash On Thursday, a … Continue reading
Twitter reacts to Mike Huckabee wanting to tax pimps
It’s getting harder out there for a pimp GOP candidate Mike Huckabee has officially created his platform for the 2016 presidential campaign — no prostitution without taxation. (This was the original slogan of the American Revolution.) See also: Donald Trump’s … Continue reading
Man’s clever contraption lets his cat hunt for dinner
Cats are natural hunters, so it’s no surprise they would enjoy a tactical game when it’s time to eat Benjamin Millam, a self-described “aspiring geek,” created an interesting feeding game for his cat. Instead of dumping some food in a … Continue reading
Is your Android device vulnerable to the Stagefright hack? There’s an app for that
A vulnerability in Android’s “Stagefright” media playback engine was publicly revealed late last month, potentially affecting nearly a billion Android devices. It enables an attacker to take control of the victim’s phone by sending a specifically crafted MMS Now, Zimperium … Continue reading
10 times magazine covers made tech luminaries look terrible
Palmer Luckey isn’t the first tech luminary to be made a fool on the cover of a national magazine and he won’t be the last. The 22-year old founder of Oculus VR found himself on the cover of an upcoming … Continue reading
Video sparks concern over harassment of Saudi women
In a video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the waterfront promenade in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jiddah as a group of young men jeer and follow them until the women become visibly … Continue reading
Jimmy Fallon and Salma Hayek win puppies in a super snuggly game of trivia
If all quizzes were like this game of Pup Quiz, high school would have been a lot more fun. Salma Hayek and Jimmy Fallon squared off in some animal-based trivia on The Tonight Show on Thursday night, and kept score … Continue reading