Stan Relihan

Download this: Google's Grasshopper aims to make coding as easy as a game

Ever wanted to learn to code, but didn't know where to start? Google's new app wants to help.<p>This week the company launched Grasshopper, an app that …

Ukrainian Digital Artist Flawlessly Restores Heavily Damaged Vintage Photos, And Brings Them Back to Life!

Have you ever seen an old photograph that has been damaged so badly that the image is no longer clearly visible, and wondered if anyone could restore …

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3 Features To Consider About Your Web Design

Creating a good business website can sound very difficult, though it does not have to be challenging. If you need to design a website for your …

'Panic Has Set In At The White House' Michael Avenatti Trolls Trump In Wake Of Cohen Tweets

Michael Avenatti is a true maestro of the media, mainstream and social. This morning Trump went off the deep end on twitter reacting to a story in …

All Glory to the Renault Twizy, the Greatest Electric Car in the World*

*In Bermuda.<p>You cannot rent a car on the island of Bermuda. What you can rent is a Twizy.<p>The Renault Twizy is a road-legal electric minicar with scissor doors and delusions of grandeur. This quadricycle went on sale in Europe in 2012 and just recently came to Bermuda, where, prior to its arrival, a …

Harvey Weinstein Still Believes He Can “Exonerate Himself”

The disgraced mogul filed court papers on Friday demanding access to the Weinstein Company’s e-mail server.<p>One month after The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy, former C.E.O. <b>Harvey Weinstein</b> has filed papers in court in a continued attempt to “exonerate himself.” The former studio head claims …

Stormy Daniels’ ex-lawyer cooperating with feds in Cohen probe

The lawyer who negotiated payouts in 2016 for porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep quiet about alleged affairs with …

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World Bank recommends that countries eliminate minimum wage, dismantle wrongful dismissal rules, and contractual protections for workers

A draft of the World Bank's annual flagship World Development Report says that its creditor-states (the poorest countries in the world) should …

What happens to the global publicity titans if advertising no longer pays?

The departure of Martin Sorrell from WPP is just the latest sign of the crisis surrounding big ad firms and their ageing leaders<p>Not so long ago a bearish Sir Martin Sorrell berated the advertising industry for its unrealistic “Don Draperish optimism” in the face of tough times, in a reference to …

Buick Reveals Velite 6 PHEV and EV Crossover in China

It will slot directly above the Velite 5 hatch, a rebadged Chevy Volt.<p>General Motors is rolling out another electrified vehicle with its new Buick Velite 6 crossover. The model is designed to sit above the smaller, China-market Buick Velite 5 hatchback, which is a rebadged version of the Chevrolet …

How Mueller Can Protect the Investigation—Even if He Is Fired

The special counsel has a powerful tool up his sleeve, if he chooses to use it.<p>President Donald Trump has been hinting that he might try to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible criminal wrongdoing related to Russian election interference and matters related to it, such as …

BMW Is Changing Something So Fundamental About Its Cars That You May Want To Lie Down

Why would the automaker do this?<p><i>Absurdly Driven</i> <i>looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.</i><p>I confess I've never owned a BMW.<p>One of the main reasons is, well, the people who own a BMW.<p>Somehow, I've had too many encounters with BMW drivers who teeter toward …

The Trump Family Power Rankings: Week Ending April 20, 2018

Who’s up? Who’s down? Who can get Dad on the phone even when <b>John Kelly</b> is trying to hide it in the protective camouflage of a bed of kale? Who’s earning a punitive exile to negotiate the licensing agreement of the new Trump Sewage Treatment Plant & Casino in Baku after an insufficiently vigorous …

The 14 most popular programming languages, according to a study of 100,000 developers

It's a good time to learn how to code.<p>The job market is growing and demand for software engineers is increasing, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But before you can land a programming job, you need to learn at least one major programming language.<p>Fortunately, Stack Overflow — the go-to …

After Trump

Never say Never. That’s what some of the Never Trumpers are saying, and even more are thinking. Both in private. They are afflicted with a nagging …

Just How Random Are Two Factor Authentication Codes?

You know two-factor authentication tokens, the ephemeral, six-digit numbers you use as a second layer of security when logging into, say, your email? …

Bad News for President Trump

The Comey memos are more revealing than they seem.<p>One feature of the truth is that it doesn’t change much. A lie is hard to sustain. The details may change in each retelling because the liar is not actually remembering the events, but instead remembering the telling of the events. The truth, by …

Operation Gunnerside: The Norwegian Attack on Heavy Water That Deprived the Nazis of the Atomic Bomb

After handing them their suicide capsules, Norwegian Royal Army Colonel Leif Tronstad informed his soldiers, “I cannot tell you why this mission is …

15 astounding technologies that DARPA is working on right now

Bullets that can change direction in flight<p><i>DARPA</i><p>Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) are the military's first self-guided bullets.<p>EXACTO bullets …

How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius

Intense, provocative, disturbing, and captivating, the legendary artist led a life of restless brilliance.<p><b>It's the morning</b> before Christie’s Impressionist and modern art evening sale in New York City, and suddenly, there it is.<p>Just past the auction house’s entrance at Rockefeller Center, Pablo …

Did You Know the Earth Has a Second Magnetic Field? Its Oceans

Earth’s magnetic field is one of the most mysterious features of our planet. It is also essential to life as we know it, ensuring that our atmosphere …

Judge sees 'gaping holes' in Trump lawyer bid to delay Stormy Daniels lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday signaled possible shortcomings in a request by Donald Trump's personal lawyer to delay adult-film actress Stormy Daniels' lawsuit over her alleged affair with the U.S. president, but stopped short of putting it on hold.<p>Daniels, whose real name is …

Want to be likable? 7 universal secrets to help you

If you want to be more likable then you must remember one thing … You cannot be liked by everyone.<p>You cannot make everyone like you!<p>Any time you …

Nobody is safe from Russia's colossal hacking operation

No-one is too unimportant to be targeted by Russia-backed, state-sponsored hackers. While that may be good for the self-esteem, it's bad news for …

Ginger Page is the 24/7 writing tutor you need on any device

Ever fielded a text or email so chock full of typos and grammar errors that it felt less like reading and more like code breaking? The sad fact is that the advent of quick, on-the-fly digital communication has done its fair share of damage to the English language.<p>Unfortunately, if you suffer from a …

5 expert tips for stunning detail in landscape photos

How do you make a mountain appear as large to the viewer as it does to you? How do you get rid of noise in your nightscape images? How can you get …

Trump dropped an explosive hint about Mueller and the Russia investigation

President Donald Trump suggested on Friday night that the Russia investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller is illegitimate.<p>That's the conclusion Trump floated in a tweet, in which he drew a handful conclusions about the series of events he believes led to Mueller's appointment:<p>…

New Study Says Ancient Humans Hunted Big Mammals To Extinction

Over the past 125,000 years, the average size of mammals on the Earth has shrunk. And humans are to blame.<p>That's the conclusion of a new study of the fossil record by paleo-biologist Felisa Smith of the University of New Mexico.<p>Smith studied fossils going back 65 million years, when dinosaurs died …