Pin ItemailprintWell, what do you know? Turns out Mark Zuckerberg is welcome in Vietnam, even if his social network isn’t. The Facebook CEO is on vacation in the communist country that prohibits its citizen from using the world’s most popular social networking website. Zuck, his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, and a group of friends arrived in [...]
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Today, the U.S. government will vote to have broad powers to block any website. SOPA would not only hurt free speech, it will choke off the internet workforce and its readers by taking down entire websites. Today is our last chance to have our voices heard. It’s time to pull all stops – please make [...]
It’s that time of year. U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the top colleges in America. This year, Princeton University tied Harvard University as the top-ranked National University in the 2012 college rankings. Last year, Harvard stood alone as the sole, top-ranked National University, a category that encompasses large, research-oriented [...]
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You didn’t really think that was it, did you? Fresh on the heals of dropping their appeal, the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narendra filed a status report in a Massachusetts federal court today saying they were pursuing discovery in a lawsuit that alleges that Facebook intentionally suppressed evidence during the trio’s 2008 settlement proceedings with [...]
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Here’s one saga that has finally come to an end. The Winklevoss twins, Tyler Winklevoss and brother Cameron Winklevoss, the former business partners and Harvard classmates of Mark Zuckerberg, have dropped their court appeal of a settlement with the founder and CEO of Facebook. The Winklevosses were alleging they had been shortchanged in a $65 [...]
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OK, sure. The name’s not really all that catchy, but this is one optical illusion that will leave you scratching your head. The illusion, which was created by Jordan Suchow, a Harvard University graduate student, and George Alvarez, an assistant professor in Harvard’s psychology department, is called “Silencing awareness of change by background motion”, and [...]
It seems late night talk show host David Letterman has just about had enough of Donald Trump‘s insinuations about President Barack Obama, calling the potential presidential candidate a racist on last night’s edition of The Late Show. Letterman was chatting it up with guest Dr. Phil McGraw, who, as it turns out, is a good [...]
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More here: Funny Lists Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Pearls melt in vinegar. Santa Claus (St. Nick) is the second most recognized fictional character in the world. Number one is Ronald McDonald. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for an entire year’s supply of footballs. Thirty-five percent of [...]
Looking to own your own little piece of internet history? Facemash.com, the site Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg created as a prototype in his Harvard dorm room one night back in 2003, is up for sale. The site is listed for sale over at Flippa.com. The site once placed pics of various university girls next to [...]
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Larry Summers, the White House’s top economic adviser, will be leaving his post at the end of the year and return to his position as a professor at Harvard University. Earlier on Tuesday, amid rumors of their pending departures, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that President Barack Obama is “enormously pleased” with the performance [...]
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The marital troubles in the Gore family don’t just end with Al and Tipper’s recent separation. Turns out their oldest daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, has been separated from her husband, Andrew Schiff, for a few months now. A couple of family friends say that the couple is trying to get some marital counseling. Al Gore [...]
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Adam Wheeler, the man who faked his way into Harvard, had his day in court today. Wheeler, 23, pleaded “not guilty” to charges that he lied to get into the Ivy League college. Prosecutors in Massachusetts argued that those lies enabled him to obtain $45,000 in grants, scholarship money, and even financial aid. Prosecutor John [...]
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