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Why does people’s hair stand on end when they walk past Google’s London office?
A mysterious 'beam' of static electricity has been caught on camera making a passer-by's hair stand on end. In the clip, filmed outside Google's headquarters in London, Simon Legrand is shown entering the field
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Limbaugh unleashed: Obama is a ‘sociopathic’ liar
President Barack Obama was scorched Monday as a “sociopathic” liar and “lying con man” by radio host Rush for denying he misled the American public to get his signature health-care plan known as Obamacare
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Mindreading software could eavesdrop on your secret inner voice
Scientists believe they have found a way to read our minds. They have created a computer program that can decode brain activity that creates the 'voice in our head' and put it into words. The breakthrough
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Mind-Controlled Drones Are Already A Reality
Researchers are now using US Department of Defense funding to explore what could be the next big step in drone technology: mind control. Daniel Pack, who manages the Unmanned Systems Laboratory at the University of
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FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users’ data, demands law ‘fix’
The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. “Deeply concerned” James Comey wants to push on Congress to “fix” laws to ensure police can
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Marijuana’s History: How One Plant Spread Through the World
From the sites where prehistoric hunters and gatherers lived, to ancient China and Viking ships, cannabis has been used across the world for ages, and a new report presents the drug's colorful history
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Philadelphia becomes largest US city to decriminalize marijuana
Philadelphia has decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in the city, reducing penalties for possession and public use to minor fines and community service. The move makes Philadelphia the largest city in the United States
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Twitter Opens Entire Database to MIT – How Will It Be Used?
Predictive technology is exploding, in stealth, across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as well as a massive industry of data brokers is not only putting privacy at risk,
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Philadelphia becomes largest US city to decriminalize marijuana
Philadelphia has decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in the city, reducing penalties for possession and public use to minor fines and community service. The move makes Philadelphia the largest city in the United States
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America needs marijuana bars
Blogger-pundit Matt Yglesias really wants more bars. First at Think Progress, then at Slate and now at Vox, the commentator has waged a one-man rhetorical war on the country’s urban liquor boards. The current
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World’s First Wearable Drone Takes Flight
As Congress and the FAA continue to discuss the parameters of drone use, a widening array of them are already taking flight. A new exemption has been granted for Hollywood , only the second
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Larry Page wants a Google 2.0 that will build cities and airports, report says
As if self-driving cars, balloon-carried internet, or the eradication of death weren't ambitious enough projects, Google CEO Larry Page has apparently been working behind the scenes to set up even bolder tasks for his
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Pocket-Sized Surveillance Drone Can Fly Through Windows
A new pocket-sized surveillance drone endorsed by the US Air Force which could ultimately end up in the hands of law enforcement can fly through open windows and reach other confined spaces
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$250K-a-day for NSA PRISM refusal – Yahoo
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo 250k a day for not complying with NSA demands for PRISM data. Ron Bell, Yahoo’s general counsel, said in a blog post, that the company “refused to comply
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Google Reads Your Email Before You Do
Once the fact was out, the internet giant tried to get a judge to help them hide it again. Back in February, in a San Jose courtroom, a bombshell was dropped that could have been
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This Google Glass App That Measures Human Emotions Is So, So Creepy
It's not like we need any more reminders about how creepy Google Glass can be, but developers never stop surprising us. An new app from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute that uses facial tracking, proprietary tools
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Cornel West slams ‘counterfeit’ Obama’s presidency
Cornel West, activist and professor at Union Theological Seminary, ripped Barack Obama’s “Wall Street presidency,” calling him another neoliberal “counterfeit” after posing as a progressive in his initial campaign for the White House in
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UN Grabs for the Internet: CFR, Chatham House Lead Toward “Global Governance”
In a recent essay entitled, “The Strategic Significance of the Internet Commons,” former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff describes cyberspace and the Internet as a “global commons” that must come under “global governance.”
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is funding a multimillion dollar university research program to develop new data mining and analysis tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to track political radicalism among British
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Congress proposes new law prohibiting body armor in the Land of the Free
By the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin became the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union after having eliminated his opposition. He topped it off in 1929 by serving a decisive blow to anyone that would dare
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