New TEDx conference at UCLA provides a stage for presenters to share their insights, innovations in science, technology and art

A sellout crowd of more than 400 people packed a Broad Art Center auditorium decorated with multiple visual displays, musical instruments and a crowd-sourced, fully-automated Nerf gun.

Students, online community surprised and disappointed as FBI shuts down major poker sites

Marc Reicher used to play 400 poker hands per hour using only a mouse and a keyboard.

But on April 15, the home page of the second-year math and economics student’s favorite poker website, PokerStars.com, was replaced by this greeting: “This domain name has been seized by the FBI.”

In an FBI crackdown this month, the three largest online poker websites were shut down on charges of illegal gambling activities.