LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Well, we never said every appointed cabinet member had to be as seemingly tyrannical as Trump himself. According to a new report, the president’s FCC chief wants to end the regulations that force most U.S. phone’s built-in FM receiver to be turned off: Your smartphone has an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A popular mobile dating app will start to ask political questions as part of its matchmaking criteria in March. OKCupid, a social networking website, is expected to rollout a new redesign in March that will include 50 potentially provocative questions, like how a user feels about Trump’s immigration ban….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The Liberty Conference Focused on the Future: Voice & Exit by Avens O’Brien I attend a lot of liberty-themed conferences every year. Last year, I attended the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington DC, I took photos at Anarchapulco in Acapulco, headed to regional Students for Liberty and Young…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman Google’s parent company, Alphabet, told employees last week that President Donald Trump and his administration are going to do “evil things.” “I can tell you that the tone of this government is very much economic growth,” Schmidt said, according to BuzzFeed News,…
Eric Lieberman Facebook plans on automatically labeling news stories as “misleading” and “sensational” by altering how its News Feed works. “Today we’re announcing two updates to better rank posts in your feed,” Facebook wrote on an official blog post. The two updates include “incorporating new signals to better identify and rank authentic content” and “a new…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The White House has announced the first four people selected for the launch of “Skype seats,” aimed at allowing individuals outside Washington, D.C., to participate in the daily White House press briefings, reports The Hill. WATCH: Natalie Herbick of Fox 8 in Cleveland, conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Another solar company went out of business after receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer cash, according to a Monday GreenTech Media article. Beamreach, called Solexel until 2016, received $3 million in Department of Energy (DOE) funding in 2008. The company spent more than $250 million, mostly raised from…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover is starting to act like a teenager after 13 years on the Red Planet, according to the space agency. NASA scientists note in the video that the rover is increasingly “acting more independently,” even climbing mountains taller than it was designed to handle….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel may be giving consideration to a run for the Governorship of California in 2018, say three Republicans familiar with his thinking. The Paypal co-founder, who was also an early investor in the social media site Facebook, has been discussing a prospective bid for the aforementioned…
By Eric Lieberman A Los Angeles college paid hackers $28,000 to remove infected software from its computer systems after cybercriminals took the school’s data hostage. The perpetrators infiltrated the servers of the Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) and issued ransomware–a type of infected software designed to take over a computer system and then block access for the…