“Welcome to the finale” When Macklemore spoke those words early in his set with Ryan Lewis last nig[…]
Nextdoor Competitor Meetey Launches Its Local Social Network Internationally
Back in October Nextdoor, the startup that lets people create private social networks with others who live in their local neighborhoods, raised a new $60 million funding round boosting its cash pot to $100 million. It’s now live across 22,500 of neighborhoods in the US. So as you can tell this is going to be a pretty hot space, aiming to be for our “local life what Facebook is for our social life and what LinkedIn is for our professional life” says CEO and founder Nirav Tolia.
Google Turns On Desktop-Based Web Streaming Of Google Play Content For Chromecast
Google Chromecast owners can now stream Google Play music and movie content direct from the web, as well as from smartphones and tablets, thanks to the Google Cast extension for the Chrome desktop browser. Oddly, Google’s own media store isn’t the first to do this, as Netflix on the web can play nice with the Chromecast extension, as can YouTube. But Play media access means Google’s $35 wonder device is everything the Nexus Q was not, and a device only limited by software and time.
Concealed Carry
On a recent Sunday morning at a small target range in rural Frederick, Md., a handful of teenagers are shooting .22 caliber rifles. Inside an adjacent clubhouse, Perrin Lewis, a crane operator and part-time firearms instructor, presents a fact-packed, …
North Carolina Shows Why the Voting Rights Act Is Still Needed
Poll workers reviewing ballots in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 6, 2012. (Reuters/Chris Keane)
A federal judge in Winston-Salem t…
The Left’s Reality Problem
The “reality-based community” isn’t what it used to be. Progressives spent much of the George W. Bush years deriding the right for disdaining reality itself and waging an associated “war on science,” such was its purported…
Nelson Mandela and His Cause Weren’t Always Revered in the US
Leaders from across the world will gather in South Africa this week to pay tribute to the most extraordinary leader of our lifetime, Nelson Mandela. The chorus of tributes, from across the globe and across the political spectrum, cannot hope to do justice to this remarkable man, who emerged from twenty-seven years in prison with a grace, dignity and will sufficient to transform the brutal apartheid system peacefully and spread hope across the world.