When someone owns most of your company, it’s pretty hard to tell him no. Sumner Redstone is a huge player in the media world, thanks to his company National Amusements. National Amusements is a movie theater chain that also happens to own 80 percent of two massive media companies, CBS and Viacom. So, in effect, […]
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Yahoo Hacked; 500 MILLION Accounts Breached
Posted 9/23/2016 7:51 pm by Ron HoganJust when it looked like things were turning around for Yahoo, no such luck. It wasn’t that long ago that Marissa Mayer left Google and successfully orchestrated the sale of Yahoo to Verizon for $4.8 billion dollars. Well, that silver lining is now tarnished, because Yahoo is facing one of the biggest security problems of […]
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Pumpkin Chocolate French Fries, Thanks Japan!
Posted 9/21/2016 6:01 pm by Ron HoganFall is my favorite season. The leaves change color, and food all takes on different properties. That doughnut? Now a pumpkin spice doughnut. That latte? Now it’s every white girl’s favorite drink, the pumpkin spice latte. Pumpkin spice everything is out there, ready for the taking, so enjoy it while it lasts. (Next is peppermint […]
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Three Arrested After Scary Clown Hoax
Posted 9/20/2016 8:44 pm by Ron HoganPeople live in fear of clowns. Not me, but there’s just something about clowns that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable. A trio of Alabama kids used that fear of clowns to prey on the fears of some classmates and associates in the town of Flomaton, and they’ve landed not in a puddle of […]
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Rivers Of Blood In Bangladesh
Posted 9/15/2016 6:27 pm by Ron HoganThe streets of Dhaka are running red with blood. We’re not talking little trickles of blood, either; we’re talking full-on blood flood filling the city, turning the capital of Bangladesh into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There have been lots of horrible flooding events, like a flood of toxic sludge and street-clogging floods of frogs, but a […]
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Yosemite National Park Gets 400 Acres Larger
Posted 9/08/2016 8:25 pm by Ron HoganWhen John Muir laid out the plans for Yosemite National Park in 1890, one of the things he’d included in the massive park was an area called Ackerson Meadows, which is a meadow and wetland area some 400 acres near the park’s Big Oak Flat entrance. For whatever reason, that never happened, while other parks […]
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Apple Unveils New iPhone 7 and Apple Watch
Posted 9/07/2016 7:42 pm by Ron HoganYou have 10 days or so to save up $649 plus taxes or find a smuggler. That’s the going rate for the new iPhone 7, which will be hitting store shelves on September 16. (The $649 will get you the small 32GB edition of the iPhone.) If you want a new Apple Watch, that’ll be […]
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ITT Tech Shut Down By US Government
Posted 9/06/2016 7:15 pm by Ron HoganCollege is a big business. No matter that half of all college degrees, my own included, are wasted. In fact, a lot of people would have a better life without wasting time and money on a degree, but for a lot of people, college is more about what it represents than the actual education. That […]
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Samsung Is Recalling ALL The Galaxy Note 7 Phones
Posted 9/02/2016 6:16 pm by Ron HoganThe Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone has been on sale since late August. So, a couple of weeks now, at best. However, as it turns out, there’s a little… well, a large problem with the phones. They have a nasty habit of exploding. Some 35 or so of the phones have exploded around the world, […]
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Netflix Brings Science Back To TV
Posted 9/01/2016 8:47 pm by Ron HoganI was never a Bill Nye fan. For whatever reason, I just never took to the show. My science TV show was, and always shall be, Beakman’s World, if only because a guy in a rat suit got to eat sugar glass. Plus they taught me, a movie nerd, how to make sugar glass. Still, […]
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