WTF Florida

Hawthorne (WTFF) – A Florida Man has been arrested on methamphetamine charges.

The 49-year-old Hawthorne resident called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday to complain about a “bad reaction” to some meth he purchased about a week ago, according to a press release.

Douglas Peter Kelly believed his “violent reaction” to the drug was because his dealer sold him the wrong shit. He requested that the Drug unit come out and test the meth because wanted to “press charges.”   Continue reading “After a “bad reaction,” Florida Man calls the cops to complain about the meth he bought”

Ontario Canada

Aurrigo is the latest international autonomous vehicle (AV) company to drive itself to Ontario.

The Coventry, U.K.-based technology innovator develops and manufactures the driverless PodZero. With an operating speed of up to 24km/h, multiple battery options up to eight hours or 80 kilometers, PodZero transports both people and cargo. It can be designed to be wheelchair accessible and incorporate features to help visually impaired passengers. And, to ensure the safety of everyone on the road, PodZeros are monitored through Aurrigo’s control room. Continue reading “Aurrigo rolls into Ontario”

American Trucker

WASHINGTON. Over the next decade or so, policymakers project the world will look dramatically different as advances in automation will bring fully autonomous cars and commercial vehicles to the country’s roadways.

But what will that mean for the U.S. workforce – particularly the truck drivers who move our freight from point A to point B?   Continue reading “Full automation: What it means for the American trucker”

Business Insider – by Alexei Oreskovic

Self driving cars are all over the streets of San Francisco these days, with prototypes from GM’s Cruise project and various other companies regularly spotted.

But sightings of more exotic specimens, such as the matte black Zoox car or the ever-elusive Apple car, are also possible for the alert car-spotter.

Business Insider was lucky enough to catch one such mystery robo-car this week in the city’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.   Continue reading “We just saw one of the weirdest self driving cars yet in San Francisco, and no one knows who it belongs to”

Daily Mail

California is a state blessed with a bountiful natural treasures and tourist attractions that brings in visitors from all over the world.

But if the highly contested plan to divide the state into three goes ahead, then the newly created states of Northern California, California and Southern California will have to split those money making attractions between them.   Continue reading “Where top landmarks would fall in Three California plan”

Daily Mail

New York’s attorney general filed suit against President Donald Trump and his three eldest children on Thursday, alleging ‘persistently illegal conduct’ at the president’s personal charity.

The suit is filled with scathing charges against the president and his management of his self-named non-profit. It includes allegations of violations of campaign finance laws and illegal coordination with Trump’s presidential campaign.   Continue reading “New York attorney general sues Trump’s family charity for ‘persistent illegal conduct’”

Daily Mail

Bitcoins incredible rise in value in the last 12 months has been down to massive market manipulation, a new study has revealed.

During the 2017 peak, which topped out at almost $20,000 (£15,000) per coin, traders were using a separate cryptocurrency called Tether to manipulate its value.

These actions, rather than real demand from investors, propped up the prices of Bitcoin when it was faltering and resulted in the currency’s meteoric rise.  Continue reading “Is Bitcoin a SCAM? Cryptocurrency’s huge price spike last year was caused by massive ‘market manipulation’, claims study”

Daily Mail

With sandy beaches and warm water year-round, Salton Sea in California was the perfect family getaway of the 1950s and 60s. It attracted Hollywood’s elite – Rock Hudson water-skied there, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis visited their friend Guy Lombardo’s yacht which was moored there. The Beach Boys were members of the North Shore yacht club, Sonny Bono was a visitor and President Dwight Eisenhower golfed there.

Business was booming – hotels, motels, casinos and yacht clubs popped up along the lake’s 116-mile shoreline helping to create enclaves including Bombay Beach and Salton City. Residents and developers quickly reaped the benefits of the influx.  Continue reading “A ghost town in the making: How the Salton Sea went from bustling resort to a ‘public health disaster’”

Syracuse.com

A hardware store owner in East Tennessee is celebrating a new Supreme Court ruling by putting up a sign that says “No Gays Allowed.”

If that sounds familiar, it’s because he’s done it before and made national headlines for it three years ago.   Continue reading “‘No Gays Allowed’: Tennessee store owner puts sign back up after SCOTUS ruling”

American Trucker

PORTLAND, OR. Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled on June 6 what President and CEO Roger Nielsen said will be the “broadest [electric] truck fleet in North America by 2021.”

The unveiling of the Freightliner eCascadia heavy-duty truck and Freightliner eM2 medium-duty model took place on the same day DTNA announced the creation of the Automated Truck Research and Development Center in Portland.   Continue reading “Daimler unveils two all-electric Freightliner trucks”

Wired

BACK IN 2013, when you could still mine bitcoins at home, WIRED was sent a small, sleek mining device manufactured by the now-defunct Butterfly Labs. We turned on the Roku-looking machine in our San Francisco offices and allowed it to do its job. A small fortune was soon amassed, now wortharound $100,000. Then, we lost the money. Forever.

Here’s what happened to WIRED’s 13 Bitcoins—and to the millions of others that have faced the same fate.   Continue reading “How WIRED Lost $100,000 in Bitcoin”

Daily Mail

A young couple built a 560sqft ‘earthship’ home using reclaimed and re-purposed materials with wooden walls reinforced by car tires in the Santa Cruz Mountains for just $10,000.

The surprisingly spacious interior has a minimalist look and natural light floods the living areas through large windows where discarded colored bottles provide a stained-glass effect.   Continue reading “The $10,000 recycled home: Young couple used tires, bottles and parts from an old barn to create their dream home that is completely self-sufficient”

American Trucker – by Jason McDaniel

JACKSONVILLE, FL. The Shell Starship ended its 2,300-mile trip from San Diego, CA, to Jacksonville, FL, on Tuesday with a presentation highlighting the tractor-trailer’s efforts to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.

But, as Shell’s Chris Guerrero pointed out, the real journey is only beginning.   Continue reading “The ‘real journey’ is just beginning for Shell’s Starship truck”

Fox News

Memorial Day weekend proved even bloodier than last year in Chicago.

At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across the city since midnight Friday, police told WLS. Last year, over the entire weekend of the unofficial start of summer, seven people were killed and 45 others were hurt.

The victims, WLS reported, include China Marie Lyons-Upshaw, who was shot in the chest while playing with a gun; Bobbieana Lyons, 20, a young mother shot and killed on her doorstep while celebrating her 2-year-old’s birthday; and a 31-year-old man shot twice in the chest and once in the head after he got into a fight with another man.   Continue reading “8 people killed, 25 wounded in bloody weekend in Chicago”

U.S. Army

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — When engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory brainstormed on how to improve Soldier lethality, the idea of a third arm seemed like something that might help.

Mechanical engineer Dan Baechle carefully planned out a device that doesn’t need batteries, is lightweight and can evenly distribute the load of a heavy weapon.  Continue reading “Army researchers envision ‘third arm’ for Soldiers”

Daily Mail

A leaked image from inside a federal court shows dozens of immigrants in orange jumpsuits with their hands and feet shackled in the process of undergoing a ‘mass trial’ in Texas.

Under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration, scenes like this one in Pecos, are becoming more the norm according The Intercept’s reporter Debbie Nathan.       Continue reading “Inside an illegal immigration ‘mass trial’”

LA Times – May 25, 2018

President Trump has signed executive orders restricting the unions that represent many of the government’s 2.1 million employees, the White House said.

One of the three orders limits the amount of official time federal employees can spend on union duties to 25%. It also requires the federal government to start charging union members rent for using space in federal buildings, stop paying employees for the cost of lobbying the federal government, and more aggressively negotiate union contracts.

Continue reading “Trump signs executive orders cracking down on federal unions representing about 2.1 million employees”