‘Stop the Recount’: How the Chaotic End of the 2000 Presidential Election Sowed Seeds of Today’s Political Fury On the night of the 2000 presidential election, as the counting began in a tight race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, it all came down to Florida. And then, all ... 11/5/2024 - 5:21 am | View Link
How to help your tropical plants survive the winter blues A man who took in an orphaned squirrel and made it a social media star vowed Saturday that New York state's decision ... of the first phase of development and reinforcement work on its power ... 11/5/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
A week after Spain's floods, families hold out hope that loved ones are not among the dead A man who took in an orphaned squirrel and made it a social media star vowed Saturday that New York state's decision ... woke up in dark homes Tuesday after a powerful storm knocked out power across ... 11/5/2024 - 12:48 am | View Link
Play Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and StarCraft Now on Xbox Game Pass Black Ops 6 is the first entry in the popular shooter franchise that publisher Activision Blizzard released after being bought by Microsoft in 2023. Game Pass Ultima ... 11/4/2024 - 10:19 pm | View Link
Xbox goes disc-free with Call of Duty the star attraction With its powerful consoles, convenient streaming service and huge stable of creative developers, Microsoft’s Xbox brand is arguably as strong as it’s ever been.Yet at the same time, it’s increasingly ... 11/4/2024 - 1:06 pm | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."