Rice Lake native helped create March Madness
CHIPPEWA FALLS — A Rice Lake native helped create the national obsession known as “March Madness” — the 68-team, single-elimination NCAA basketball tournament that occurs this time of year. Harold Olsen, who would later play basketball for the University of Wisconsin, served as chairman of … Read More
Robots break new ground in construction industry
As a teenager working for his dad's construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects. Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup … …
YouTube opens space in Dubai
“As a platform, YouTube provides a blank canvas for creative expression and the Space will be one of the tools creators use to tell their own stories,” Ripert noted. The MENA region has more than 200 YouTube channels with over a million subscribers, and over 30,000 channels are subscribed by …
YouTuber Who Builds Extreme DIY Lasers Suspended From Site
Drake Anthony, a YouTuber who began his channel styropyro in 2006, posted a video today on an alternate channel explaining that he received a "strike" on YouTube banning him from posting to the site for two weeks. This is the second time his channel has received a strike. Read More
The rise of Hinglish and Hindi on YouTube reflects how Indians are coming online
In a decade of being in India, YouTube has seen an explosion of video content being shared in the country as more first-timers come online. From being a predominantly news, music, and kids-video platform, the Google-backed website is today seeing a spurt in regional content across genres in the … Read …
Yes, I Blocked You On LinkedIn — And Here’s Why
I was surprised to get his connection invitation, because Chuck and I never got along when we worked together. When I quit my job, Chuck was out on medical leave. I gave notice to Chuck's boss "Lisa" and I sent Chuck an email message to let him know that I …
Naya Rivera Auditions For Steven Spieberg’s ‘West Side Story’ On Instagram
The "Glee" alumna auditioned for Steven Spielberg's upcoming remake of the musical film in an unconventional way: by posting her audition to Instagram! On Saturday, the 31-year-old shared a video of herself sitting in front of a camera. "Hi, my name is Naya Rivera, I'm 5'4" and I'm singing for …
Is Josiah Duggar A Republican? The ‘Counting On’ Star’s Instagram Account Is Telling
Josiah Duggar is probably used to people wanting to know all about his life. After all, the 21-year-old grew up with more than a dozen brothers and sisters, all while on TV. And now that Duggar is on TLC's reality show, Counting On, with his siblings and recently got engaged …
WhatsApp likely lets you do 20 UPI payments per day
WhatsApp rolled out the Payments feature based on UPI recently in India. The platform kept on adding more banks to the payments interface and came up with updates such as the Notify button and the Send to UPI ID features to offer an enhanced user experience. Still, the company appears …
OPINION: We can do better than GroupMe
Personally, I have been using WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, for the past four years, and so tend to prefer this app the most. It allows you to view the phone numbers of your contacts and vice versa. Luckily, I haven't encountered any breaches in privacy because of this; in fact, …