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George Lucas’ $1B Museum of Narrative Art Has Found a Home…

The suspense has been as epic as “Star Wars,” but after months of intense speculation, George Lucas’ Museum of Narrative Art on Tuesday chose Los Angeles as its home over San Francisco. The filmmaker’s personal collection of fine and popular art, including ephemera related to his “Star Wars” franchise, will fill a futuristic new museum […]

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Marissa Mayer Resigns From Yahoo Board; Yahoo To Be Renamed To Altaba…

Four-and-a-half years after taking over as CEO of Yahoo, the company announced today, via an 8-K that Marissa Mayer is resigning from the board. Additionally the comany’s name with be change to Altaba (well it’s better than ‘Bahoo’). It’s been a bumpy ride…

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Just Believe Us…State Dept Says Revealing ‘Evidence’ of Russian Hacking to the Public Is ‘Irresponsible’…

As the State Department proclaimed “high confidence” in the findings, spokesman Kirby was asked by RT reporter Gayane Chichakyan…whether the public should have the same degree of confidence without being able to see evidence of the claims…He said that it was no surprise that “an unclassified version of a highly classified assessment” contained no evidence, […]

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Watch How Casually False Claims are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition…

Like most people, I’ve long known that factual falsehoods are routinely published in major media outlets. But as I’ve pointed out before, nothing makes you internalize just how often it really happens, how completely their editorial standards so often fail, like being personally involved in a story that receives substantial media coverage…

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CNN Is Now Least Trusted News Network Among Viewers…

A recent poll of cable news network viewers found that CNN’s regular audience is far more skeptical of the political news they receive than Fox News fans. In the poll published Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports, 1,000 likely voters were asked to describe their media viewing habits. Seventy-five percent said they watch at least some form […]

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‘Fake News’ Is Over Now…

Remember a little while back, when you started hearing the term “fake news” a lot? It was around the time of the 2016 election. Specifically, it was right after the election. There were a lot of reasons for the Democrats’ loss, we were told. None of those reasons had anything to do with voters making […]

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Assanges Blasts ‘Embarrassing’ ODNI Report, Says ‘no evidence given’…

During a press conference Monday, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange criticized the recent ODNI report describing it as “quite embarrassing to the reputations of the US intelligence services.” He described the ODNI’s report as containing “zero evidentiary weight” and being “deliberately political”…

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IBM Watson Replaces Insurance Claim Workers at Japanese Insurance Company…

Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work are also becoming increasingly competent. One Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing…

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Tech Founder: Middle America Is Too ‘Violent, Stupid And Racist’ For New Jobs…

Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon describing what middle America could do to “get more jobs in their area.” Byerley says that the first thing those in middle America need to realize is that “no educated person wants to live in a shithole with […]

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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived…

In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging…

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Don’t Be So Sure Russia Hacked the Clinton Emails by James Bamford…

Last summer, cyber investigators plowing through the thousands of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee uncovered a clue. A user named “Феликс Эдмундович” modified one of the documents using settings in the Russian language. Translated, his name was Felix Edmundovich, a pseudonym referring to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky…

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Cyberwar for Sale…

After a maker of surveillance software was hacked, its leaked documents shed light on a shadowy global industry that has turned email theft into a terrifying — and lucrative — political weapon…

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Wither Shadow Brokers in Discussions of Foreign Hacks of America?…

Since Shadow Brokers first started leaking apparent NSA tools in August, there have been very few mentions of the compromise from Congress. Adam Schiff expressed some concern about the compromise at the time (though not about the failures of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process the leaks appeared to indicate)…

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Do You Want a Car That Can Read Your Mind?…

Car companies love to say they got there first. It appears Honda may be the first major automaker to show a concept vehicle designed for the ride sharing market. The NeuV, which was announced Thursday at CES, is an acronym for the New Electric Urban Vehicle…

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