Tag: VIRGINIATECH

Share 4Chan has landed itself in the middle of yet another FBI investigation. This time, though, the site is cooperating with authorities after a Michigan-based member named Ali Saad posted threats to go on a shooting rampage at his community college. Saad insists that his postings were in jest, but his claims that he could top the "high score" of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho set off ...

Mark Riccobono, who has been legally blind since the age of 5, showed off some of the Ford Escape's new features at the Daytona International Speedway on Saturday... by driving one. As part of the activities scheduled before the Rolex 24, Riccobono, who is also the executive director of the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute, piloted the hybrid SUV around the famed racetrack ...

It may have taken some time, but universities across the country seem to be finally coming to terms with the death of the landline. Last week, the University of Virginia removed around 3,850 phones from dorms across its Charlottesville campus in a move that school officials claim will save $500,000 per year. In the last few years, carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have also expanded ...

Throughout the years, we've seen our fair share of creepy robots, from kits that let you build a girlfriend to bizarre looking, big-eyed dancing robots. But after watching a recent video from Virginia Tech's RoMeLa Lab, we're still cringing. Why? Well, one of their latest robots, dubbed ChIMERA (Chemically Induced Motion Everting Robotic Amoeba), looks like a slug and uses a mechanism charmingly ...

Since the horrible shootings on the Virginia Tech campus earlier this week, everyone from students to the media has been asking questions. Questions like what caused the shooter to act as he did or how did he get his weapons? For Virginia Tech administrators, the questions are focused on the school's policies -- specifically, what they could have done differently to more quickly inform students ...

Sometimes the fact that everyone has cell phones is a great thing. Other times, the results are just disturbing. As we're sure you know, today's massacre at Virginia Tech has left 33 dead at the time of this posting. The above video chronicles one student's cell phone video of the events. Scary stuff. ...