NASA continues to push the American space program towards its former glory as on Thursday it conducted a successful 450 second test of the new RS-25 rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, […]
Month: May 2015
FIFA President Blatter, Who Oversaw Bribes, Re-Elected
D.C. isn’t the only body of rich men that wreaks of corruption. World soccer body FIFA, long known as perhaps the most corrupt sports organization on earth, decided on Friday that it was perfectly fine […]
Former House Speaker Hastert Paid To Cover Up Underage Sex Crimes
The scandal surrounding former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert got deeper and uglier late Friday when reports surfaced that the $3.5 million he’s accused of mishandling was to pay a former student to keep […]
Uber Joins Silicon Valley Privacy Abuser Club, New App Will Track You 24/7
The latest attack on individual privacy comes courtesy of quasi-legal ride sharing app Uber, which will release an update to their app the week of July 15th that will track your location even when the […]
U.S. Tried To Destroy North Korean Nuclear Reactor With Copy Of Virus Attack Used On Iran
Word leaked late Friday that the U.S. secret agencies, likely a group within the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations group, tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons […]
Revolutionary New Drug Doubles Life Expectancy For Lung Cancer Patients
This year is seeing real progress for Americans suffering from deadly lung cancer. First, as we covered earlier, Americans will now have access to a long-known yet unavailable Cuban lung cancer vaccine. On Friday, drug […]
China Puts Artillery On Disputed Islands In Latest Show Of Aggression
Tensions got higher in the Pacific on Friday as U.S. defense officials said they have detected artillery on artificial islands being illegally built by China, in what has been described as a “disturbing and escalatory” […]
All The Photos You Upload To Google’s New Photos App Can Be Used By Google
Google’s new Photos app is a service that wants to “organize your memories.” But what Anil Sabharwal, head of Google Photos, didn’t tell you on Thursday is that all the photos you upload to Google’s […]
Peer To Peer Lending Could Be The Next Financial Bubble
The $77 billion Peer to Peer (P2P) lending market is expanding exponentially thanks to Wall Street’s efforts to securitize the loans. It’s the same risky practice that led to the Great Financial Crisis, where poor […]
World’s Safest Drug Dealer Sentenced To Life In Jail
The man who allegedly ran Silk Road, the world’s largest yet safest drug marketplace, has been given life in jail. Ross Ulbricht, found guilty of narcotics conspiracy and other charges earlier this year, received the […]
NSA Tracking Americans By How They Swipe And Type
While the theater over the NSA’s spying continues in Congress, under the grand illusion that a piece of legislation will stop the agency, the spooks at the NSA are now tracking people based on the […]
Residents Flee As Japanese Volcano Unexpectedly Erupts
Residents fled the sparsely populated Kuchinoerabu Island on Friday morning as a dormant volcano unexpectedly erupted, sending smoke and ash soaring into the sky. Mount Shindake, the island’s main peak, produced a plume over six […]
North Korean Rocket Complex Getting Significant Upgrade
A U.S. research institute announced Thursday that North Korea’s main rocket launch site is undergoing significant new construction, according to satellite imagery. The upgrades are a sign of leader Kim Jong Un’s determination to pursue […]
SEC To Allow All Americans To Invest Directly In Startups
The SEC has passed historic regulations that will allow everyday Americans to invest in startups for the first time ever. Previously only rich investors were permitted to take part, limiting the opportunities available to retail […]
U.S. Army Finds Another Batch Of Live Anthrax As Scandal Worsens
The Army’s anthrax mishandling scandal continues to widen, as we first suspected, as another batch of live anthrax has been discovered. The new batch is genetically the same as the live samples sent to Australia […]
U.S. Drops Cuba From List Of State Sponsors Of Terrorism
The U.S. moved closer to complete normalization with the tiny island of Cuba this morning, after the State Department announced that Cuba has officially been dropped from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. “The […]
Google’s New Products Highlight Huge Problems With Apple’s Software
Yesterday Google announced a big update to its Google Now product, which will add contextualized information to every app on your phone. For example if Spotify is playing a song, simple asking your phone what […]
Australian Prime Minister Doesn’t Think Kids Should Learn About Computers
Ultra conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott doesn’t think kids should learn computers. In an embarrassing blunder he even ridiculed his own government’s investment in technology education, showing yet again how the people who make […]
Russian Billboard Changes Ads If Approached By Police
In what is either an incredibly interesting or incredibly terrifying development, an ad agency in Russia has designed an outdoor billboard that automatically hides when it spots the police approaching it. The reason for the […]
Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin Busted By Feds
The dark corners of the internet offers lots of illicit things for sale: drugs, weapons, malwar and even counterfeit coupons. The web’s most notorious coupon counterfeiter, known as ThePurpleLotus, is now behind bars after the […]
America Is Going Back To Space! NASA Sets Date For First Manned Space Flight Since 2011
NASA is getting closer to “returning America’s ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States” as it awarded a contract yesterday to aerospace giant Boeing for commercial crew rotation […]
Indictment Of Former House Speaker Exposes Deep Rot In D.C.
Robert Menendez isn’t the only prominent politician engaged in corruption as word broke last night that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been indicted by Federal officials for lying to the FBI about a $3.5 […]
Tesla’s Solar Revolution Will Require Houses To Be Completely Re-Wired
Tesla’s newly announced batteries promise to revolutionize the solar industry by allowing homeowners to store power from one part of the day, when it is plentiful, and use it in another part, when it is […]
Google Launches Stealth Attack On Facebook With Free Unlimited High Res Photo Storage App
In a clever attack on privacy invading Facebook, Google announced on Thursday a new dedicated Photos app for Android, iOS and the web. It had hinted at this repeatedly over the past month but its […]
Iran Recently Showed North Koreans Nuclear Facility Three Times Despite U.S. Nuke Deal Talks
Fresh reports have emerged that Iran is not just looking to develop nuclear weapons but that its interested in selling them to other rogue nations, including highly provocative and increasingly unstable North Korea. According to […]
Fifteen Chinese Nationals Charged In Huge College Entrance Exam Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that it has charged fifteen Chinese nationals with paying impostors to take college entrance exams, including the SAT. The illegal test takers gained acceptance to elite American […]
Armed Bikers To Hold Muhammad Cartoon Contest Outside Phoenix Mosque Today
The battle with radical Islam, which seeks to degrade society into a medieval theocracy, heated up on Thursday after a group of bikers announced they will hold a Muhammad cartoon-drawing contest outside a Phoenix-area mosque […]
Google Is Now A Major Player In Television
At Google’s annual developer conference yesterday, Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, the most senior Google executive to actually speak with the public, revealed a stunning fact. act Google has sold 17 million Chromecast devices to customers […]
SEC Hires Goldman Banker To Regulate His Former Employer. Again.
The SEC proudly announced on Thursday what is perhaps the first ever double revolving door in SEC history: It has had hired a former Goldman worker as its new chief of staff, who before Goldman […]
YouTube Is Going To Support Virtual Reality Videos By End Of Summer
As we covered previously, 2016 is poised to be the year of virtual reality. Big players, like Facebook, Conde Nast, Sony and Samsung are all lining to jump head first into the virtual reality arena. […]