Sep 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(RT) The US government has already proven its intent to see all evil, with the use of Orwellian programs like TrapWire. But it can now hear all evil too, as law enforcement agencies implement a tool able to store, analyze and identify voices in seconds. ‘Voice Grid Nation’ is a system that uses advanced ...
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Sep 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON POST — The Iranian government, determined to limit Western influence and defend itself against cyberattacks, appears to have laid the technical foundations for a national online network that would be detached from the Internet and permit tighter control over the flow of information. The concept of a self-contained network has been reverberating within Iran for ...
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Sep 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) — Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field test the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically to fit women’s physiques. Members of a female engagement team from the 101st Airborne Division, who will be directly interacting with Afghan women during the coming deployment, have been equipped ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Fox News: A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such ...
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Sep 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(GIZMODO) How would you feel if the government could easily track your movements by automatically identifying your face on images captured by the ever-growing network of CCTV of cameras in America? The FBI is will be able to do just that soon, with its one-billion-dollar Next Generation Identification program. The FBI has been pursuing ...
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Sep 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Britain's The Telegraph: They look like they could be the latest images taken from a multi-million pound NASA satellite but these stunning snaps were actually taken from a £30 camera bought off eBay by a teenager. Adam Cudworth, 19, managed to capture these incredible views of the earth from space using little more than ...
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Sep 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from RT News: Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of ...
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Sep 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from ATLAS SHRUGS: Jihad and the social network. Despite their disdain and utter contempt for Western thought, these savages sure love our toys. HASHTAG #Jihad Part II: Twitter Usage By Al-Qaeda And Online Jihadi Affiliated Groups Explodes; Apps Increasingly Used As Tools For Cyber Jihad MEMRI By: Steven Stalinsky* Table of Contents Part I: Tweeting ...
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Sep 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(POLITICO) The Pentagon issues an official response to defense reporters’ concerns that their phone calls and emails might be tapped in order to close leaks: “The Department of Defense does not conduct electronic or physical surveillance of journalists,” Pentagon press secretary George Little wrote in a letter to the Pentagon Press Association, released Friday. The issue ...
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Aug 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNBC) In California, it's illegal to talk on a cell phone handset while driving your car. The reasoning is pretty simple: with one hand glued to your smartphone, not only are you distracted chatting about what happened on last night's episode of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," but you also only have one hand ...
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Aug 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Post: Apple confirmed Thursday that it has rejected Drones+ from its App Store. The app is designed to alert users whenever someone has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. Wired’s Danger Room reported that the app, developed by New York-based developer Josh Begley, has been turned down three times. Begley told Wired ...
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Aug 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX411) Kate Upton is now showing off what’s in between her ears. Kind of. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, who this year had to fend off critics who called her too fat (!), is featured in the new Skullcandy headphones campaign with a set of the designer phones strapped onto her pretty face. Upton joins three other ...
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Aug 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON TIMES) For all of the skeptics and detractors it has produced, the drone industry also has its vocal supporters. Few are louder than Jerry LeMieux, a retired Air Force colonel, commercial airline pilot, college lecturer and, most recently, the founder of the world’s first university dedicated solely to unmanned systems education. “At the end of ...
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Aug 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS Seattle) – It sounds like something out of the movie “Johnny Mnemonic,” but scientists have successfully been able to “hack” a brain with a device that’s easily available on the open market. Researchers from the University of California and University of Oxford in Geneva figured out a way to pluck sensitive information from ...
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Aug 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The Federal Communications Commission is eyeing a proposal to tax broadband Internet service. The move would funnel money to the Connect America Fund, a subsidy the agency created last year to expand Internet access. The FCC issued a request for comments on the proposal in April. Dozens of companies and trade associations have ...
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Aug 24, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNBC NEWS) A U.S. jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages from Samsung Electronics, finding that the Korean company infringed on some of Apple's valid patents. As for the countersuit, the jury found Apple did not violate any of Samsung's wireless standards or feature patents. Apple shares hit an all-time high in after-hours trading. Click here ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CBS SEATTLE) — Boeing engineers and researchers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory successfully demonstrated a “swarm” of drones to be used in battle. According to a Boeing press release, the researchers and engineers conducted the test flights in Oregon in June using two ScanEagle drones which performed like a “swarm of insects.” The flight ...
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Aug 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) — On Wednesday, Google announced its Internet search engine would draw information from its users’ Gmail accounts on its main results page for those who opt into its pilot program. The feature announced Wednesday marks Google’s latest attempt to deliver data that people are seeking more quickly as it tries to maintain the dominance of ...
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Aug 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON TIMES) Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a bill that would require cell phones to warn consumers how much radiation is coming from their phones, saying that until science can disprove a link to cancer, the public should be told more information. His bill, the Cell Phone Right to Know Act, would also demand a ...
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