Professor offers 30k reward for anyone who can disprove climate change
The scientific consensus on climate change, to the tune of 97 per cent of experts, is that humans are changing Earth’s climate for the worse....
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Pentagon orders 500 new state-of-the-art spy glasses
The Pentagon has reportedly placed an order for 500 high-tech wearables that will give Google Glass a run...
Merkel reportedly gets NSA-proof phone with chip costing 2.5k euros
o fear of being tapped by foreign agents, as she now has a secure, German-upgraded Blackberry, Bild reports....
Hospitals spy on patient purchases to spot bad habits
Americans regularly purchasing unhealthy food or failing to kick their smoking habit could soon find themselves entertaining phone calls and spontaneous check-ins from their doctors....
FBI seizes 80,000 emails from Murdoch’s News Corp
A probe of media mogul Rupert Murdoch might soon take shape in the United States upon reports that...
DHS biometric program gets $250 million from Senate
A Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security for nearly...
Assange lawyers demand end to arrest warrant, release of evidence
Julian Assange’s lawyers are demanding Swedish prosecutors reveal texts from the woman in the ‘rape’ scandal, currently hanging over the WikiLeaks founder. Changes in the...
VA whistleblower says records of deceased vets were altered
A Veteran Affairs employee has come forward claiming that government officials doctored the medial records of deceased veterans...
Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution
The U.S. government's no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional...
The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before
Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones....
Crowdfunding campaign raises $2.2M to build solar roadways
It's crazy. It'll never work. They cost too much. They'll crack. They're too delicate. You'll slide off them. Oil companies will never let it happen....
A New BPA Substitute is just as bad as BPA, go figure
A chemical found in many "BPA free" consumer products, known as bisphenol S (BPS), is just as potent...
Retired Marine claims he spent 17 years on MARS protecting human colonies
A former US Marine has claimed he spent 17 years of his career on MARS. The ex-naval infantryman,...
Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention
Several years ago, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers created a technology-enhanced glove that can teach beginners how to play piano melodies in 45 minutes. Now...
Drones Are Now Banned In Every National Park In America
The National Parks Service in the US just announced a sweeping ban on drones. The new policy prohibits...
Mafia Members Are ‘Excommunicated’, Pope Francis Says
Pope Francis delivered a condemning message to Italy’s most powerful Mafia affiliation on Saturday, calling it an example...
House unexpectedly votes to stop warrantless NSA searches
In what’s being billed as a momentum boost for anti-surveillance advocates, the US House of Representative on Thursday approved an amendment that significantly reigns in...
Pentagon crashed more than 400 military drones
While unmanned drones have become a popular weapon of choice during the United States’ wars in Iraq and...
Colorado won’t allow James Holmes attorneys to speak to victims
James Holmes's attorneys are accusing state prosecutors of discouraging Aurora theater shooting victims from talking to them, according...
Snowden gets German Fritz Bauer award for exposing US intelligence
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the German Humanist Union,...
178 barrels of oil spill into Colorado’s only designated wild and scenic river
A 7,500-gallon storage tank of crude oil has completely drained into the scenic Cache La Poudre, Colorado's only designated National Wild and Scenic River, southeast...
Mass graves filled with remains of immigrants discovered in Texas
Anthropologists uncovered a series of mass graves filled with the human remains of immigrants stuffed into shopping and...
The scandal of fiddled global warming data
When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th...
Pakistani woman gang-raped and hanged from tree
Parents looking for 20-year old Mazummil Bibi found her hanged from a tree in eastern Pakistan. Police discovered the girl was gang raped before being...