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USBKill.com If you were looking for a USB stick that “instantly and permanently [disables] unprotected hardware,” you’re in luck. You can now purchase one for a little more than fifty bucks! According to ZDNet, “when the USB Kill stick is plugged in, it rapidly charges its capacitors from the USB power supply, and then discharges—all…
WMBF News screenshot A Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has reportedly exploded again, this time in the hands of a six-year-old boy. The boy experienced “burns to his body,” and is too afraid to be near any other devices, according to The New York Post. “The child was watching videos on the phone when the battery…
Samsung told Fox 13 it was investigating whether it could replay the cost of the vehicle destroyed in the fire. Writing after the incident, Dornacher said: “All I want out of this is for everyone to take this recall seriously and, if you didn’t know about it, please educate yourself before it’s too late. “I had the…
A day after Hillary Clinton fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service, prompting her campaign to acknowledge a previously undisclosed pneumonia diagnosis, the far-fetched idea that Democratic officials could move to replace her as the party’s presidential nominee is floating around in all the predictable places — and at least one not-so-predictable place. Breitbart, Newsmax, Infowars, Lifezette and…
Shellanoo Group founder O.D. Kobo Shellanoo Group An amazing drama unfolded this week in Israel’s tech community after tech startup Shellanoo Group filed to go public in the Tel Aviv stock exchange. The tight-knit community, who knew the company’s work intimately was appalled at some of the claims made in the IPO documents, with one VC calling…
Rather than distance himself from Colin Kaepernick in the wake of the quarterback’s recent decision to protest the national anthem, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York has taken a step firmly in support of him. The 49ers announced in a press release Thursday evening that York planned to donate $1 million to organizations working to…
An article has surfaced from the quagmire of bilge that is The Internet and it has caused, not without reason, a small tornado of outrage. Written as dating advice for “The Modern Man” (a misnomer if ever there were one), it promises a solution to the hot ‘n’ horny down-on-their-luck young bucks of the world…
For how long does Europe’s racist right need to “rise” before it is acknowledged that Europe is racist and this is not the by product of recent social discontent? Across Europe, the media narrative goes more or less like this: 9/11 happened and that brought out a wave of Islamophobia that was used by manipulative…
Almost immediately after the 9/11 attack, while bodies were still buried in the rubble, George W. Bush demanded from Congress the legal authorization to use military force against those responsible for the attack, which everyone understood would start with an invasion of Afghanistan. The resulting resolution that was immediately cooked up was both vague and broad, providing…
The Huffington Post was not founded to be a business that generated enormous profits. Before it became the 154th most popular Web site in the world, its goal was chiefly political. Following John Kerry’s loss in the 2004 presidential election, Huffington and her co-founders, including the investor Ken Lerer and the digital-media savant Jonah Peretti,…