May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Daily Caller: Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt, the highly touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.” The executives at Chevrolet can rest ...
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Apr 30, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from Council on American-Islamic Relations: — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the release of the Sikh Coalition’s new “FlyRights” smart phone application that allows airline passengers to report alleged instances of racial or religious profiling by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to accept ...
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Apr 27, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from The Danger Room: This is the recipe for peak absurdity in weapons design. One part bazooka round; one part suicidal drone; one part stun round. What the U.S. Army hopes will emerge from that mix is a warhead that can loiter in midair while it hunts a human target — but won’t kill ...
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Apr 26, 2012 Comments Off Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Times: Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will warn Congress Thursday. “Elements of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] have openly sought to pull hackers into the fold” ...
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Apr 22, 2012 Comments Off Pat Dollard
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove ...
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Apr 22, 2012 Comments Off Toro520
Los Angeles Times: The results are in from last summer’s attempt to test new technology that would provide the Pentagon with a lightning-fast vehicle, capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour. In August the Pentagon's research arm, known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, carried out ...
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Apr 18, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Exerted from Infowars: A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards. Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data ...
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Apr 17, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from USA Today: This summer, when your kids' favorite science museum boasts a new augmented-reality environmental simulation? Same deal. If in the next few years a video game teaches you anything — how to conserve energy, eat a balanced diet or solve quadratic equations — consider the invisible hand of one of the ...
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Apr 15, 2012 Comments Off Pat Dollard
Craig Hospital has unveiled a device to help paralyzed patients walk again. The rehabilitation hospital in Englewood is the first center to buy the robot. James Nall is back on his feet, 18 months after being paralyzed when he fell down stairs. “It’s amazing what people have came up with and put together here,” was ...
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Apr 13, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea's widely condemned rocket splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff Friday, an embarrassing end to a launch that Pyongyang had infused with national pride during a week of high-level political meetings and celebrations. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the United States and South ...
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Apr 13, 2012 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
BATH, Maine (AP) — An enormous, expensive and technology-laden warship that some Navy leaders once tried to kill because of its cost is now viewed as an important part of the Obama administration's Asia-Pacific strategy, with advanced capabilities that the Navy's top officer says represent the Navy's future. The stealthy, guided-missile Zumwalt that's taking shape at ...
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Apr 10, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Excerpted from FOXNEWS SALT LAKE CITY – An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed. Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen after a computer tracked to ...
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Apr 6, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
The Daily Mail - A new invention - funded by Bill Gates - aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water. Manchester University’s Sarah Haigh is an expert in nanotechnology - the science of manipulating atoms in matter - and says, it could make waste water from toilets safe to drink. The innovation - which has ...
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Apr 5, 2012 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Herald Sun: WHILE many believed it to be an April Fool's Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies. The futuristic weapons - which attack their victims' central nervous system - are being developed by scientists and could be used ...
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Apr 4, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Google Project Glass Website: We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do. ...
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Apr 4, 2012 Comments Off Infidel كافر
Heritage -Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days and counting. No government has taken credit, but if this “service interruption” actually is the result of government intervention, it represents the kind of intelligent response to terrorist radicalization that we need. The Internet is a double-edged sword. While Internet users ...
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Apr 3, 2012 1 Comment ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from TheBlaze - The Department of Homeland Security may start policing its own borders with technology that first found itself on the battlefield. According to Wired, DHS recently conducted tests using “mega-cameras” — a wide-area surveillance system called Kestrel by Logos Technologies that can view several miles in a single frame — mounted ...
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Mar 21, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The largest laser in the world was turned on for a fraction of a second last week -- and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) -- a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. -- turned on its 192 laser beams for a ...
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Mar 21, 2012 Comments Off Pat Dollard
Nokia patents a magnetic tattoo that will vibrate when your phone receives notifications.
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