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When US embassy staff in Cuba became mysteriously ill after hearing loud piercing sounds, US officials blamed nefarious secret agents for launching “sonic attacks.” But a new Berkeley University study could have proven them wrong. The incidents, which occurred between 2016 and 2018, saw dozens of US staff at the embassy experience a range of […]
University of California Berkeley will change policies that effectively blocked conservative speakers, no longer charge exorbitant security fees, and pay the plaintiffs’ legal expenses in a settlement with two conservative groups. The settlement announced Monday was hailed as a victory by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and the Berkeley College Republicans, who sued the university in […]
PRESS RELEASE: The Blockchain Research Program will be led by Professor Alessandro Chiesa, who is a co-inventor of Zerocash and co-founder of Zcash SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 15, 2018– Loopring, the blockchain protocol that will facilitate trading between centralized and decentralized exchanges, announced that UC Berkeley has agreed to launching a research program that will focus […]
EquBot / Art Amador Equbot’s AI Powered Equity ETF uses IBM’s Watson technology to construct a stock portfolio, employing machine learning to make rational investment decisions. The original idea for the fund was synthesized in a classroom at UC-Berkeley, where founders Chida Khatua and Art Amador met during an entrepreneurship class. Khatua’s background in AI […]
Many University of California students saw red over a US flag being displayed on campus, the man behind the stunt, political activist and provocateur Ami Horowitz, told RT. Almost no-one minded an ISIS flag, though, he says. In the first part of a 2 1/2-minute video filmed at UC Berkeley early November, Horowitz is seen […]
Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned Free Speech Week at Berkeley has been cancelled, but the right wing troll announced he intends to hold a rally instead. The cancellation has fuelled suspicions that the event was never meant to go ahead. Yiannopoulos was working with conservative Berkeley student group, Berkeley Patriot, which announced the event’s cancellation in a […]
The University of California at Berkeley is preparing for a possible repeat of violent clashes, as it hosts conservative speaker Ben Shapiro. This time, police will be allowed to use pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a rowdy crowd. Berkeley is taking extraordinary measures to prevent violence on the campus Thursday night, following a […]
AFP/Amy Osborne Los Angeles (AFP) – Thousands of counter protesters clashed with supporters of President Donald Trump in California on Sunday, leading to more than a dozen arrests, police and witnesses said. A peaceful protest in Berkeley, outside San Francisco, began turning violent around noon (1900 GMT) as fights broke out with the opposing sides […]
Published time: 27 Aug, 2017 20:57 Edited time: 27 Aug, 2017 21:14 Police have arrested at least eight people and reportedly deployed tear gas as demonstrators from the Left and Right of the political spectrum held rallies in Berkeley, California. White smoke was seen on the scene, believed by local media and some eyewitnesses to […]
When you played through Super Mario Bros. or Doom for the very first time, chances are you didn’t try to speedrun the entire game but instead started exploring — this despite not really knowing what to expect around the next corner. It’s that same sense of curiosity, the desire to screw around in a digital […]
