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2 psychologists earned $81M from CIA torture tactics
The Central Intelligence Agency’s torture of detainees was developed by two inexperienced contractors who were eventually paid $81 million for their work, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the program released Tuesday. The
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Cheney: CIA torture program ‘absolutely, totally justified’
Former US vice president Dick Cheney has defended the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency ahead of the release of a new Senate report on the agency’s controversial program. In a phone interview
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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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Anonymous to RT: ‘Internet has power to bring down regimes’
The Internet is the greatest tool of free speech ever created that gave voice to billions of people along with power to bring down regimes, a member of the Anonymous movement told RT, adding
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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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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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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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School Kid Suspended And ARRESTED For Imagining Shooting A Dinosaur
In another case of school officials adhering to ridiculous zero tolerance policies, a student from South Carolina was suspended and arrested by police recently after writing an imaginative story about using a gun to
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Google Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Predictive analysis combs through calendars and search histories—and gets in the way of routine self-deception. Every weekday at 3:40 p.m., the message popped up on my phone: 22 mins to Work. Google Now was doing
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Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location
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Google Is Following You: This Is How To Turn It Off
Google's location data from my move to New York. If you have a Gmail account or use any of Google's apps, there's a good chance Google has some of your location data stored in its
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‘Pocket drones’: U.S. Army developing tiny surveillance tools for the next big war
Future U.S. Army soldiers sent into combat may have a brand new tool at their disposal: the pocket drone. The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts is developing a “pocket-sized
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FEDS Set Up Tiny Free Speech Zones Once Again – Are They Insane?
Almost hysterically, the Federal government has once again set up TINY ‘free speech zones’ in Murrietta, Texas, despicably forgetting that THE ENTIRE COUNTRY is a ‘free speech zone’ in accordance with the 1st Amendment
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