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First-term Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) has repeatedly surprised CSPAN viewers with her incisive questioning during congressional hearings. That was on display again on Tuesday when Porter questioned Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf. Scharf...

Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion is seeing an increase in torrent downloads and rentals due to fears over the new coronavirus, and a big part of it seems to be that it’s nearly...

Facebook has an interesting feature. It will let you see which companies have associated your off-Facebook activity with your Facebook account. If you visit https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/ you'll see what companies are snitching on you...

The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons' loss of energy;...

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who...

Joe Burrow knows he has a long, long way to go before he’ll have earned comparisons to Tom Brady. Burrow was asked on NFL Network about whether he’s similar to Brady, the Patriots’...

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on...

The NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis has come and gone. Our Joe Rutter — TribLive Steelers beat writer — was on hand covering all sorts of Steelers angles. He joined me on 105.9...

In a move that other states might want to emulate, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said that the state’s Department of Financial Services is requiring health insurers in the state to...