That secret party-house rager you were hoping to throw on New Year’s Eve? Don’t try to book it on Airbnb.
The short-term rentals site has clamped down on listings during the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to prevent large gatherings of the sort health authorities are urging people to avoid. That includes instituting a global ban on all parties and events until further notice and restricting users under 25 from booking entire homes in the areas where they live, a move that a spokeswoman said has resulted in more than 770,000 blocked reservation attempts in the U.S. and Canada.
it can be theirs. they can turn it into a microphone. they can take pictures from it. they can take the data off of it. certainly scary when you hear that. now one man is taking action by creating a secure smart phone case that encrypts your data. the chief executive officer of this company joins us live right now. why was it important for you to create this device? it was important because a close associate of mine put me in contact with a gentleman, dr. michael fisk, who had given a paper on quantum randomness at cambridge and we wanted to talk about commercial applications. we kept calling each other and there was no way to talk about it over the phone because the commercial benefits were so vast that we knew someone could be listening in and someone probably was listening on his phone for sure. i don t know about mine. i had to keep flying to california to meet him. finally we realized why not apply this area of quantum randomness to voice communications and securing it so peop
reports, mornings are better with friends. it s time for fox & friends. last time we saw her, it was her birthday, and then she took off for four days. where have you been? i had a little too much celebration. we got together with the family, and i thank anna for being here and a great team as well. we had some cupcakes at home and graduations of kindergarten which, by the way, are very cute. yes, i ve heard that. brian had a graduation himself over the weekend. from high school. i guess we ll see pictures in a little while. that s right. brian graduated from high school. yes. we had a graduation in our family. you ve been through this three times already. who was more emotional? you or dawn? i would say to be continued. okay. that s the way it works. meanwhile, new overnight, a fox news alert. a top taliban leader declaring victory over the trade of five taliban fighters for army sergeant bow berdahl. national security advisor susan rice on the
while. kelly: it s incredible. police in chicago are searching for a cop killer there and now there s a $10,000 reward on the table and investigators say officer michael fisk, an evidence technician shot at 1:30 in the afternoon while he was gathering evidence, the burglary suspect had been shot and killed and fisk had been a police officer for 30 years. three siblings work for the chicago police department. he leaves behind a wife and four children. fisk is the second chicago officer killed this week. winter storm warnings now in effect for parts of the west coast. boy, are they getting something out there, a wallop and in the east a lake effect snow machine is cranking up along the great lakes and central new york and some places could be looking at least at a foot of snow. meteorologist maria molina is here to give us the details.
headquarters live from the nation s capital starts now. we begin with this fox news awe alert. a 19-year-old is behind bars after federal investigators say he tried detonate a bomb at a christmas tree lighting ceremony in portland, oregon. casey see gal has been following the story and has the latest on the investigation. what can you tell us? reporter: uma, this is a frightening and disturbing story we are following. investigators say this plot was months in the making. the teen told police that he chose portland because it is oregon and no one thinks about it. he went on to tell police he wanted to attack people in their own element like when families were celebrating the holidays. that information is coming from the fbi. this shows how calculated this plot was. however, police say, the hundreds of spectators at this christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown portland, were never in danger last night. that s because the fbi had been conducting an undercover operation.