By Alex Mardikian Biometrics technology, once in the realm of science fiction, is a commonplace technology today. Fingerprint, face, and retina scanners are used for granting access to smartphones, bank lockers, homes, etc. Today, we can use biometric information to identify an individual, check for past behavioral information, and supply relevant messages. The combining of […]

Moon Alert Until 9 PM EDT today (6 PM PDT) we have the “all clear” today to shop and do business. The Moon is in Libra. Aries (March 21-April 19) Your attention now shifts to home and family in the next four weeks. Expect to be involved in family discussions and working on home repairs. […]

Turkish voters head to the polls Sunday in transformative electionsthat will usher in a new system of government, giving sweeping new powers to whoever wins the presidency. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is used to winning elections — he served as Turkey’s prime minister for three terms from 2003 and then as president since 2014. He narrowly won a referendum […]

Me and Michael had our own language,” says Harrison Funk. “The buzzword was always the same. He would ask, ‘Harrison, can you make magic?’ Anything less wasn’t acceptable.” Funk was the photographer who got closer to Michael Jackson than any other, working with the singer from the late 1970s right up until his death in June 2009, […]

Stormy Daniels is slipping into a new role: lingerie designer. The adult film actress — famous for her alleged affair with Donald Trump — is launching a high-end lingerie line with Helen Hoey of Pulchra Intimates, which has locations in Pittsburgh and Beverly Hills, Calif. Hoey tells The New York Post that the line is in the […]

Prince William’s 36th birthday is just around the corner. The royal and father of three, who is one of two children born to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, was born on June 21, 1982. Ahead of his big day, read on for some fun facts you may not be aware of. He made history […]

Apple  has been fined AUS$9M (~$6.6M) by a court in Australia following a legal challenge by a consumer rights group related to the company’s response after iOS updates bricked devices that had been repaired by third parties. The Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) invested a series of complaints relating to an error (‘error 53’) which disabled […]

This oasis at the foot of the Atlas Mountains is the result of a Moroccan man’s wish for his family to create a project in his hometown. Saida and Abdeslam Bennani Smires made their grandfather’s dream come true — while adding their own passion. This is how the Selman Marrakech palace hotel and stud farm was brought […]

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee chain, will close 150 underperforming U.S locations in fiscal year 2019. That’s about three times its historical average, and the news comes just before executive chairman and co-founder Howard Schultz plans to step away from his role in the company on June 26. Starbucks hasn’t met experts’ estimates for same-store […]

Walt Disney Co raised its bid for the bulk of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s film and television assets to $71.3 billion on Wednesday, sweetening its deal with cash as it looks to upend Comcast Corp’s $65 billion offer. The new cash-or-stock deal may be attractive to Fox’s largest shareholder, Rupert Murdoch, who owns 17 percent […]