Like a cicada swarm, the pronunciation debate over the word GIF roared back this week after a long period of incubation when Steve Wilhite, the format’s inventor, declared it should be pronounced “jif,” like the peanut butter. … Read More
Bill Gates discusses the last time he met with Steve Jobs
Bill Gates sat down with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose last night for a one-on-one interview that has many in the tech industry talking today. That’s because the co-founder of Microsoft spoke candidly about longtime rival Steve Jobs and outlined much of what the two spoke about during their final meeting… … Read More
Pensions minister: reforms are not Ukip response
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Apple CEO Tim Cook scheduled to speak at this year’s D11 conference
Apple CEO Tim Cook will once again speak at the annual All Things Digital conference set to take place at the end of this month. The executive took the stage last year following the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, a seasoned veteran of the conference. It was his first… … Read More
Kobe Bryant praises Jason Collins: Don’t suffocate who you are
NBA superstars Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash on Monday led a throng of players and celebrities offering support for Jason Collins, after the veteran center made the landmark revelation that he is gay. Collins, who played for Boston and Washington this past season but who is now a free agent, has…
The right’s new Boston conspiracy theory
Were you one of the pundits or newspapers who too quickly jumped on the Saudi “person of interest” story, only to have some egg on your face when authorities later cleared him of wrongdoing? Well thankfully, Fox News’ favorite “terrorism expert” Steve Emerson has found an escape clause.Emerson, a former journalist who has since made a career out of being a self-styled expert, was himself a little too credulous on the New York Post-boosted storyline about the Saudi national, telling C-SPAN Tuesday morning that based on “certain classified information” that he was “privy to,” he was pretty sure authorities had found their man in “the Saudi national.” But six hours later, on Fox, he broke the news that “the Saudi suspect has been ruled out.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Rep. Steve King calls immigration bill “outrageous amnesty”
Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa), who’s best known of anti-immigrant diatribes, that he apparently thinks are cute, released a statement on the most viable immigration bill currently under consideration in the Senate:The Gang of Eight’s bill is aggressive and outrageous amnesty,” said King. “It is instant legalization of all illegal immigrants in the United States, with very few exceptions. It contains only promises: the promise of a plan for border security, of a backup plan for the border security, and of workplace enforcement in the form of making E-Verify mandatory. What makes anyone think President Obama would enforce any future immigration laws when he has violated his own oath of office to take care that the laws be ‘faithfully executed’? I expected this from Democrats…It is the Republicans who should know better. Republicans who support this bill have effectively said to Americans, ‘we are prepared to sacrifice the Rule of Law on the altar of misguided and erroneous political expediency’. Continue Reading… … Read More
