The Associated Press this morning reports an exclusive, explaining how the White House can receive real-time updates on a situation on the ground, leading up to a revolution, predicting crime and disorder, or the ‘mood in the air’ shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Centr... Read more...
S/O to Hulkshare btw... On August 18, popular D.C. rapper Wale dropped a brand new freestylejust one day after he released his latest mixtape, The Eleven One Eleven Theory. Spitting over the instrumental for AZ’s 1995 hit, “Sugar Hill,” Wale took a moment to name-drop thos... Read more...
In case you’re not one of the 8 million viewers of the above video, allow me to explain. The footage, known online as Collateral Murder is content that was released as part of WikiLeaks. The subtitles of the above video explain what’s going on here pretty well – a group of people, two of whi... Read more...
At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, we finally recaptured that lost hour of sleep from last March as we marked the end of daylight saving time. And for the 47 million Americans who are sleep deprived, that extra hour is a chance to literally make up for lost time. "This is one of those weekends we should r... Read more...
A State Department employee was scapegoated for linking an already published WikiLeaks document to his blog. On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables haemorrhaged out onto the internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department caree... Read more...
Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories. Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, a... Read more...
Following two rough years of drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia. According to the UN, a famine means more than 30% of children in an area are malnourished, at least 20% of households face extreme food shortages and more than tw... Read more...
YouTube has unveiled a merch store that will allow artists to sell their merch directly from their YouTube artist pages. Fans will be able to buy "artists' merchandise, digital downloads, concert tickets and even unique experiences like meetups," according to Sunday blog post at the YouTube blo... Read more...
An enterprising hacker in Ireland named Steve Troughton-Smith has successfully ported Siri to his iPhone 4, reports 9to5Mac. Siri is supposed to be exclusive to iPhone 4S owners. Troughton-Smith is a well-known iPhone hacker who's been liveblogging the Siri hack on his Twitter feed. He announce... Read more...