Earlier today, we learned that, in addition to porn star Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump was also having an affair with Playboy “Playmate of the Year” Karen McDougal back in 2006, in the months just after our First Lady, Melania Trump, gave birth to their son Barron. Furthermore, we got confirmation that McDougal, like Daniels, had […]
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U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant
A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan 5 Comments
Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?
On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged AOL, Apple, big data, Edward Snowden, Facebook, internet, internet business, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo 8 Comments