Alexander Rader
Recent Stories By Alexander Rader:
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A Record Year for Hollywood: The Biggest Money Makers and LosersJanuary 3, 2017
Last year was the best ever at the domestic box office, as movies generated over $11.3 billion in ticket sales. Disney, on its own, generated more than $3 billion in U.S. box office, and more than $7...
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Vegas, Baby! All the Weird Stuff You Can Bet on for Tonight’s Trump-Clinton DebateOctober 19, 2016
Las Vegas is the location for tonight’s Trump-Clinton debate, but you don’t have to travel to get a piece of the action. In an election that already has more in common with professional wrestling...
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Watch: Elizabeth Warren Takes Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf to the WoodshedSeptember 20, 2016
Today Senator Elizabeth Warren had the opportunity to ask Wells Fargo CEO John G. Stumpf about the the recent consumer fraud scandal at the big bank. She wasted little time in asking him if he had...
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Travel Nightmares: How to Avoid Getting Bumped from Your FlightAugust 5, 2015
You're finally on your way out for a summer vacation. The flight was booked months ago. Your bags are packed and ready. You arrive at the airport the recommended 90 minutes before the scheduled...
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'Ask the Nearest Hippie': 13 Higlights From Scalia’s Gay Marriage DissentJune 26, 2015
Justice Antonin Scalia added his own dissent to his concurrence with the other three dissents written on Obergefell v Hodges. Yes, that’s right. Concurrence was not strong enough. The dissenting...
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The Next Star Wars: Are We Ready for Satellite Attacks?June 24, 2015
Space is no longer the frontier, it’s the Wild West. As the area around Earth fills up with more and more material, the once limitless volume has started to look pretty crowded. The U.S. military...
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How IBM Is Making Your Passwords UselessMay 4, 2015
For years, quantum computing has been hailed as a technology that could change the way the modern world works, but a long-standing technical issue has kept that potential from being realized. Now, in...
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Comcast to Cut the Cord with Time WarnerApril 23, 2015
Comcast is dropping its merger with Time Warner after a year of regulatory pushback, according to Bloomberg. The news wire's unnamed sources say there will be an announcement tomorrow. In today's...
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'Star Wars' Digital Downloads: Aren't You a Little Expensive for a 40-Year-Old Movie?April 10, 2015
The Star Wars movies are available today for digital purchase on services like iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Instant Video for the first time. For $89.99 you can own two and a half good movies, and...
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Why Throwing Money at ‘Infrastructure’ Won’t Fix ItFebruary 6, 2015
America’s infrastructure has a problem. That seems to be the only thing everyone can agree on anymore. But ask how to fix the problem, or pay for the fixes, and you simply open another front in the...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Everything You Wanted to Know About Drones but Were Afraid to GoogleMarch 27, 2014
Drones are the new black (ops). But that's not all they're used for. The U.S. military's use of Predator drones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere has garnered plenty of attention, and...
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Red Sox World Series Win Was Statistically ImprobableOctober 31, 2013
The Red Sox are World Series winners for the third time in 10 seasons. The 2004 Red Sox may have famously ended an 86-year streak of October disappointments, but in some ways, this year’s win might...