- The following local students received degrees from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, during the schools May 10-11 commencement ceremonies: Matthew
- It is also obvious that Trump’s original plan was to initiate a war with Iran. ... This is part of his “to do list” for re-election.
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State employee charged with possession of child pornography; witness claims he viewed images at work
Stephen Cormack, a Department of General Services employee, is charged with possession of child pornography. - It is unusual for a country to wage war on a company, which makes the ongoing United States-Huawei dispute so strange and disconcerting.
- Robert Reich: The jobs problem today isn't just stagnant wages, it's also uncertain incomes.
- The “flipped classroom” concept isn’t new, but it’s one we think could apply to a lot of teachers and students in Carroll County Public Schools and elsewhere, helping to prepare students for independent learning, problem-solving and accountability — all necessary life skills.
- Carroll County residents have found a sneaky new scam tactic used on electronics sold at Walmart this holiday season, leaving them with boxes of sand and other stuffing instead of expensive gifts.
- Google has acquired Baltimore-based edtech company Workbench
- Members of the Baltimore City Council are pushing the mayor's office to release the results of a background investigation into police commissioner nominee Joel Fitzgerald. Mayor Catherine Pugh's office says it's confidential. Some council members say they won't vote for him without seeing it.
- Robert Reich: We should resurrect antitrust and break up the hi-tech behemoths: Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.
- Whether you voted to drain the swamp or ride the blue wave on Nov. 6, you could be sure that one party would continue to be a winner.
- Gas rewards app GetUpside launches in the Baltimore area with 125 service stations.
- Having worked in both the private and public sectors, I’d like to say a few things about the president’s recommendation to deny raises to federal employees.
- Baltimore launched a revamp of its 311 system this week, a move the city's IT department says is designed to modernize the way residents file complaints but which means less information is now available to the public.
- I was pretty much disgusted, but not surprised, that columnist Joe Vigliotti shares the president's opinion that Google News might be skewing its algorithms to
- President Donald Trump, seemingly drawing on a study conducted by PJ Media, made the claim that Google was censoring its results to repress searches favorable to him. A majority of liberal writers, commentators, publications and Google countered the president and the study
- President Trump's unholy bond with evangelicals is a faith-based mind-blower.
- Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday Aug. 25 is being marked by salutes to the famed conductor and composer from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and more,
- Most U.S. art museums have made virtually no attempt to engage, let alone serve, a potentially massive online audience. Too often, museums behave as though the internet didn’t exist.
- Rules for The Baltimore Sun's contest celebrating and recognizing the annual best of the Baltimore Internet.
- Hey Google, what’s da wooder temperature downee oweshun?
- About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: "To love Google, you have to be a
- Aimed at 'cord cutters,' YouTube TV expands into Baltimore market
- The webinar, which will last an hour, will teach participants how to optimize their websites for Google.
- The Morning Report is a quick roundup of links to stories that Carroll County residents are talking about for September 8, 2016.
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- The Arbutus Commercial Revitalization group is setting in motion a plan to get the community's businesses listed on Google.
- Frequently, I'll be asked a question — or think of one myself — to which I don't know the answer. When it happens, I'll usually respond to the person (and sometimes, to myself), "If only there was a device in my pocket that contained all of the world's knowledge… ."
- Amanda Lucarelli, of Eldersburg, is preparing to make the 4,500-mile trek from Baltimore to San Francisco to raise funds for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.
- A native app featuring The Baltimore Sun's Orioles coverage.
- The next hot app may be under construction at a university near you, but will it be for Apple or Android?
- With 2015 behind us, members of the Carroll County Tech Council have gazed into their crystal balls to anticipate what tech trends are going to be the guiding 2016.
- Baltimore nonprofit and Baltimore police collect guns in exchange for Google Chromebooks.
- With spots like Honey Maid's '4 de Julio,' advertisers seize an opportunity
- It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.
- For years, the group of hackers took on assumed names on popular sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn to lure in their targets — defense and other government workers here and abroad.
- Your July 30 editorial "Rodgers Forge vs. TU …" was fair and balanced, but it misses the most important point — field location. We agree that TU is within its rights to build and grow and that it must meet certain Title IX requirements. The TU press release of July 29 makes clear their intention to add lights to the softball field in the future — presumably as soon as funding or donations allow.
- Visas for temporary foreign workers should be awarded to U.S.-based companies before they go to overseas firms
- Wednesday is Baltimore's 285th birthday. Or is it? A quick Google search definitively declares July 30, 1729 as the day Baltimore was founded, but historians like Fred Shoken say deciding what day to celebrate the city's birth is a little more complicated.
- Over-the-top outrage over Attorney General Holder's mild suggestion of a racial 'animus' behind criticisms of him and President Obama proves his point
- Baltimore has the highest rate of any city in the country for people searching online to get their criminal records expunged, but activists found the the results offering advice on how to wipe clean old arrests pretty unhelpful.