The feds will mandate next month that all new cars be fitted with a black box, according to news reports. So-called black boxes record information about speed, seat belt use and brake application. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been involved in the use of black boxes s... Read more...
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26/05/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in mac,
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A Google Partner Event in New York kicks off in a couple hours with all signs pointing to an announcement about a mobile payments platform that'll let you tap your phone against a card reader to pay for an item, using technology that has been implemented in Japan for years. (Update 12:24 p.m.: G... Read more...
Files obtained by the website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives. The files, published in US and European newspapers, are assessments of all 780 people ever held at the facility. They show that about 220 we... Read more...
Nelly Furtado and Beyonce proved this week that artists can bring in big bucks even when they aren't headlining a major world tour. Both singers have scored a cool $1 million for performing for family members of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (amid pressure, they handed the money over the char... Read more...
The New York Times exposed the dirty side of search engine optimization this morning with a long article about how JC Penney spammed Google so it would appear at the top of search results. Somebody created thousands of fake pages with the keywords that Penney wanted to game, like "black dress... Read more...
The New York Times recently ran an article, “Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected,” about a troubling report by the Council on Great City Schools, which in essence asserts that underachievement among black youth is so resistant to change that it must be ... Read more...
We direct your attention to an an entirely delightful profile of the rapper-cum–Orthodox Jew Shyne in today's New York Times. The Belize-born, Puffy protégé, who spent nine years in jail for opening fire in a nightclub while hanging with Diddy and Jennifer Lopez, now lives in Jerusalem, goe... Read more...
Following the New York Times' scoop on George W. Bush's upcoming memoir, NBC is out tonight with excerpts of an interview Matt Lauer conducted with the former president set to air next week. Among other things, Bush says the lowest moment of his presidency was when rapper Kanye West declared in... Read more...
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30/08/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Death,
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The story of SCOTT LA ROCK is a painful reminder of what can happen when personal conflict is resolved violently. Fifteen years after his passing, we remember an under-acknowledged hip-hop pioneer whose impact is still felt today. Words NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER “By age 25 Scott “La Rock” Sterl... Read more...