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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg released a virtual reality movie Sunday in hopes to help people assimilate with prison inmates. The documentary called "Step to the Line" utilizes VR technology to give viewers an opportunity to see prison and convicts in a first-person perspective.
A federal judge on Friday handed down the longest sentence ever imposed in the U.S. for a cybercrime case to the son of a member of the Russian Parliament convicted of hacking into more than 500 U.S. businesses and stealing millions of credit card numbers, which he then sold on special websites. Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $170 million in restitution to the business and banks that were the victims of his multiyear scheme.
What do you do when you're young, rich, love internet irony and have a lot of time to kill? You could follow the example of Palmer Luckey, the 24 year-old cofounder of Oculus VR, who emerged Wednesday from an apparent social media exile after his political activities raised eyebrows last year. Luckey changed his Twitter avatar to Obi-Wan Kenobi -- perhaps in reference to the Star Wars character's last words, "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, during a recent tours of the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will visit the border in San Diego and El Paso this week.
Google has hired contractors to remove or limit Alex Jones' website Infowars.com from its search engines. According to a search engine evaluator for Google, all contractors have been [instructed] to actively rate InfoWars as a low quality and untrusted site.
A super-fast form of transportation involving giant tubes, pods and air pressure would have a stop in SouthCoast if built in the Northeast, among other nationwide locations, should a company making the technology pick a Somerset woman's proposal. Holly McNamara, a Select Board official in Somerset, said she feels one step closer to seeing that become a reality after a visit to Washington, D.C., last week to make her case to a panel of judges.
Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone's chairman and chief executive officer, comments on trade and U.S.-China relations during an interview with Bloomberg's David Westin on 'Bloomberg Markets.' Donald Trump is unlikely to designate China a currency manipulator this month, breaking a campaign promise, and may "circle back" on health-care legislation that failed in the House, one of his top outside economic advisers said.
A subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company filed a patent February for a "huggable," "soft body," robot in hopes of eventually introducing a family-friendly therapeutic robot into the market. The inventors of Disney Enterprises say there is a "need for robots that can safely interact with humans, and, particularly, with children," because other designs do not account for comfortability and direct human contact, according to the official filing.
Brittany Wengel was supposed to fly Delta to Florida on Thursday for a long weekend away from a gray New York City. As of Sunday, she was still grounded. Delta, which had canceled her original flight to Fort Lauderdale, rebooked her on another direct one for Sunday morning before canceling that one as well and offering her a multiple layover option instead.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday adding human exploration of Mars to NASA's mission. Could sending Congress into space be next? Flanked at an Oval Office bill-signing ceremony by astronauts and lawmakers, Trump observed that being an astronaut is a "pretty tough job."
Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta says he will work with Congress to address the need for good, safe jobs and to provide American workers with the training they need to get them. "Whether it is those who are working, those who still seek work, those who are discouraged or underemployed, or those who have retired, if confirmed as secretary of labor, I will advocate for them," Acosta said in prepared remarks.
Less than two days before they are scheduled to vote, a handful of California's 14 Republican members of Congress say they are still weighing how to vote on the GOP plan to undo and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act. California's 38 House Democrats have lined up pretty firmly against the bill, as have most of the chamber's Democrats, so Republicans are on their own to pass the bill.
Reps. Adam Schiff , left, and Devin Nunes , leaders of the House Intelligence Committee. As Congress moved hesitantly in the last few months toward investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, a question has loomed: Could lawmakers bridge their deep partisan divide sufficiently to produce an inquiry a broad range of Americans would accept? In the House, the answer is largely in the hands of a pair of soft-spoken Californians: the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes , a Republican former dairy farmer from Tulare, and Adam B. Schiff , a Democratic former federal prosecutor from Burbank.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says reports of sexual assault and domestic violence by Latino residents have dropped amid concerns that those in the country illegally could face deportation if they interact with police. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says reports of sexual assault and domestic violence by Latino residents have dropped amid concerns that those in the country illegally could face deportation if they interact with police.
The Senate voted Tuesday to abolish a rule restricting specific hunting practices on national wildlife refuges in Alaska - including trapping, baiting and aerial shooting - on the grounds that state officials should be able to set the terms for wildlife conservation on public land within their own borders. The 52-to-47 vote, which was almost entirely along party lines, represented the latest instance of Republicans using a powerful legislative tool - the Congressional Review Act - to eliminate regulations that Barack Obama 's administration finalized before he left office in January.
After nearly a dozen years without an execution, Arkansas is racing to put eight men to death next month over a 10-day period - an unprecedented timetable the state says is necessary because one of the three ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire. If carried out, the executions beginning April 17 would make Arkansas the first state to execute that many inmates in such a short time since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976.
Darrell Vance, the Trabuco District ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, crouches along a bank overlooking a vintage dam and swimming hole in Orange County's Santiago Canyon, which is scheduled for demolition as part of an effort to bolster habitat and eliminate safety hazards. Darrell Vance, the Trabuco District ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, crouches along a bank overlooking a vintage dam and swimming hole in Orange County's Santiago Canyon, which is scheduled for demolition as part of an effort to bolster habitat and eliminate safety hazards.
Fromm left, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. share a laugh in the Oval Office of the White House in Washignton, Tuesday, March 21, 2017... WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday adding human exploration of Mars to NASA's mission.
A flag with a portrait of Vladimir Putin waves over a crowd commemorating Russia's 3-year-old annexation of the Crimea in Ukraine -- a component of Russia's attempts to maintain its historical influence. A flag with a portrait of Vladimir Putin waves over a crowd commemorating Russia's 3-year-old annexation of the Crimea in Ukraine -- a component of Russia's attempts to maintain its historical influence.
Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he had received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, all those remaining who had served under former President Barack Obama.