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OAN panics as DirecTV drops network, asks viewers to find “dirt” on AT&T chairman

Enlarge / Dan Ball, host of One America News show “Real America. ” (credit: One America News) One America News is in panic mode after DirecTV decided to drop the right-wing system from its channel lineup. OAN host Dan Ball on Monday night urged viewers to dig up “dirt” on AT& T Board Chairman William […]

How patents help us invent the future

I remember my first IBM patent.  Granted to my colleagues and myself in 2005, it was for a topcoat waterproof material for a photoresist—a light-sensitive substance used to make circuit patterns for semiconductor chips. It was a proud moment for me—especially because I knew that this patent contained novel capabilities that were critical for a […]

Things to wear when you Are Fighting giant, venomous hornets

By now you have certainly seen the images : A couple of forms encased in white nylon suits are all working on scaffolding at the bottom of a saran-wrapped shrub from the reddish shine of headlamps, among them lifting a plexiglass vacuum tubing involving its blue-gloved hands in victory. These were not scenes in the […]