DES MOINES, Iowa – A social media influencer from Iowa has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after he enlisted his cousin to hold a man at gunpoint in exchange for his internet domain, officials said. Rossi Lorathio Adams II, also known as Polo, founded the social media company “State Snaps” in 2015 while he was a student […]
ST. CLOUD — A St. Cloud man remains in critical condition after police say he shot himself with a gun in downtown St. Cloud. Officer were called to the area of 5th Avenue and 1st Street South just before 8:00 a.m. on reports of a man with a gunshot wound. Police say the 23-year-man was […]
Ahnish Bhatnagar was on social media with a different name JAIPUR: A man absconding in a 17-year-old forgery case was arrested on Friday due to his profile on social media, an official said. Ahnish Bhatnagar was arrested from his rented accommodation in the Vaishali Nagar area here where he was living with a different identity, […]
Today’s Internet advertising model is a scam: It’s a system in which giant, monopolistic companies – Googleand Facebook – are selling inflated user numbers and overhyped targeting opportunities to advertisers while collecting way too much information about users and cheating content creators out of their fair share of revenue. It may not be too late to fix it, though. […]
Update 8:45 p.m.: Donald and Melania Trump will leave Palm Beach International airport for Washington on Sunday afternoon, the White House announced today. A press schedule lists a departure time of 4:20 p.m. and arrival time of 6:45 at the White House. Update 5:15 p.m.: President Trump teed off with another golf celebrity today: Palm Bech County […]
Toby Ott is 27 years old. He’s been playing video games since he was five, when he first tried out Mortal Kombat in an arcade. Which sounds like a fairly common gaming past, until you learn that Toby has bilateral anophthalmia, a rare condition which means he was born without eyeballs. While this obviously presents […]
Court orders Google to hide news reports of Japanese man saying criminals are entitled to have their private lives ‘respected and rehabilitation unhindered’ A court in Tokyo has ordered Google to remove search results to protect a convicted man’s right to privacy. Photograph: Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis Japan has taken another step towards recognising “the right to […]