The Internet was abuzz a few weeks ago with speculation that astronomers may have discovered an “alien megastructure” in a nearby solar system. Not so fast, NASA is now saying. While some scientists speculated that the strange dimming of star KIC 8462852 could be caused by alien satellites, it’s much… Read More
Sweeping new rules coming to the stock market
Regulators are proposing new procedures to monitor high-speed trading more closely in response to wild market swings brought on by a series of technical breakdowns. More than 70 percent of all trading today is automated, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday as it voted unanimously in favor of new… Read More
Traffic grows more deadly
After the biggest travel day of the year, there’s sad news from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. After declining for most of the past decade, traffic deaths spiked 8 percent in the first half of this year, prompting a call from the nation’s highway safety chief to find ways… Read More
The next big step in space exploration is…
The next big step in space exploration isn’t as flashy enough to be in the next Star Wars. But it’s vitally important to affordable, and therefore repeatable, space trips. A private space company announced Tuesday that it had landed a rocket upright and gently enough to be used again, an… Read More
Self-driving cars are coming… soon!
Self-driving cars may be coming to our roads sooner than first thought. Federal transportation officials have announced rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technology into the public’s hands. Just two years previous, the U.S. Department of Transportation struck a cautious tone. Its official… Read More
Heroic Paris emergency crews saved hundreds
If it weren’t for the fast, capable response of emergency crews, the November 13th Paris attacks could have been even worse. When extremists began their bloody attack, it triggered the activation of an emergency response plan to treat the injured — and while 302 people were rushed to hospitals, only… Read More
10 pictures that will make you feel proud to be an American
Happy Thanksgiving! Check out the 10 photos from this year that have us at The Horn News thankful — and proud — we’re Americans.
The Clinton / Wall St connection Hillary DOESN’T want you talking about…
Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her. In the 18 months prior to announcing her second campaign for president, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination addressed private equity investors in California and New… Read More
Chilling footage of “paranormal activity” in NY hotel [video]
Whether or not you believe in ghosts, this is spooky. In a video captured on cell phone, a guest walks deserted hotel halls while lights flicker on and off in a strange and frightening pattern. There is no sign of anyone else in the video, leading some to speculate that… Read More
New “Li-Fi” internet is 100X faster than wifi
Pretty soon, your living room lamp might also supply your internet. A team at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has developed a way to send data at incredibly high speeds… through light. Called “Li-Fi”, it works by using sending quick flashes of light that are decoded by a receiver…. Read More