By Alex Mardikian Biometrics technology, once in the realm of science fiction, is a commonplace technology today. Fingerprint, face, and retina scanners are used for granting access to smartphones, bank lockers, homes, etc. Today, we can use biometric information to identify an individual, check for past behavioral information, and supply relevant messages. The combining of […]

Stormy Daniels is slipping into a new role: lingerie designer. The adult film actress — famous for her alleged affair with Donald Trump — is launching a high-end lingerie line with Helen Hoey of Pulchra Intimates, which has locations in Pittsburgh and Beverly Hills, Calif. Hoey tells The New York Post that the line is in the […]

Apple  has been fined AUS$9M (~$6.6M) by a court in Australia following a legal challenge by a consumer rights group related to the company’s response after iOS updates bricked devices that had been repaired by third parties. The Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) invested a series of complaints relating to an error (‘error 53’) which disabled […]

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, will close 150 underperforming U.S locations in fiscal year 2019. That’s about three times its historical average, and the news comes just before executive chairman and co-founder Howard Schultz plans to step away from his role in the company on June 26. Starbucks hasn’t met experts’ estimates for same-store […]

Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a pooled analysis of the available data, published online in the journal Heart. The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that marital status should be included as a risk factor for heart disease/stroke and […]

Walt Disney Co raised its bid for the bulk of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s film and television assets to $71.3 billion on Wednesday, sweetening its deal with cash as it looks to upend Comcast Corp’s $65 billion offer. The new cash-or-stock deal may be attractive to Fox’s largest shareholder, Rupert Murdoch, who owns 17 percent […]

The rise of blockchain technology is fueling demand in relevant skill sets, with institutes and countries around the world launching educational initiatives. The latest to introduce such a program is the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In collaboration with American technology giant IBM, India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) launched a 12-week online course on blockchain architecture, […]

Add Akon to the list of celebrities who are launching their own cryptocurrencies. The 45-year-old “Smack It” singer announced Monday at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that he not only is launching his own crypto, “Akoin,” but also will use it in his Akon Crypto City, a 100 percent crypto-based city in Africa. First […]

US President Donald Trump has promised action to “keep families together” amid fury over separations of undocumented child migrants from adults. “I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that,” he told reporters at the White House. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly drafted an executive order to stop the […]

Cryptocurrencies are already used to pay college and university tuition fees, buy Lamborghinis, and pay for space travel. Now you can also assist in protecting journalists and whistleblowers by donating to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) using bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin, and zcash. The donations will support current projects of the free speech nonprofit […]