Tag: Wire

02 JUL

Fyre Festival founder arrested, charged with wire fraud

There has been one arrest following April’s disastrous Fyre Festival event, as the Southern District of New York US Attorney’s office announced the arrest of Fyre Media founder William McFarland. He’s charged with wire fraud for allegedly lying to investors about how much money the company was making from artist bookings. According to Assistant Director-in-Charge […]

04 MAY

The Sweetest Debut: Lisa Ko on Adoption, ‘The Wire,’ and “Believing You Deserve to Have the Time to Write”

Welcome to The Sweetest Debut, a new and regular installment in which we reach out to debut (or near-debut, we’re flexible!) fiction, poetry and nonfiction authors working with presses of all sizes and find out about their pop culture diets, their writing habits, and how they explain their books to different people in their lives.  This […]

28 APR

There’s a hidden wire stretched above American cities — and few people know what it’s for

Unbeknown to most, there are transparent wires that wrap around over 200 cities in North America — including Manhattan — to mark a religious boundary. And every week, there is a “secret operation” to check and repair the wire in time for the weekend. We tagged along to see what it’s all about.   Feedburner

21 APR

New Trailers for ‘The Wire’, ‘Deadwood’ & ‘Six Feet Under’ Make HBO’s Favorites Feel Fresh

Nowadays, anything and everything can be bought and binged. However, there was a time when not all TV shows were so readily available to be watched at your leisure. Even with the advent of DVD as a media format, it took some time for TV shows on DVD to gain traction. Because of that, there […]

16 APR

ISIS fighters got inside the wire during a hellish firefight with US Special Ops in Syria

Thomson Reuters US forces in southern Syria came under attack by Islamic State militants around midnight local time on Saturday, joining with local partner forces to repel the assault in an hours-long fight that required multiple airstrikes and left three US-backed Syrian fighters dead. US special-operations advisers were on the ground near the al-Tanf border […]

31 MAR

Don’t Cut The Red Wire In Explosive Puzzler Bomb Squad Academy

Defusing bombs tends to be pretty easy in games. Often you only have to hold a button till the explosive is disarmed. But Systemic Games’ Bomb Squad Academy wants you to make those digital defusals a bit more challenging and involved. In this puzzle game, every level is primed to blow, and you must carefully […]