Scientists have long marveled at spider silk for its feather-like weight yet steel-like strength. There have been numerous attempts to produce the material commercially but they have, up until recently, been too expensive to be […]
Month: June 2015
Chinese Hackers Steal Four Million Federal Employee Records In Largest Hack Attack Ever
The Chinese cyberwar on the United States continued to ramp up on Thursday as the federal government began notifying millions of employees that their information had been stolen by hackers, who attacked government’s human resources […]
Air Force Bombs ISIS Headquarters Revealed Through Social Media Selfie
For most people an ill-advised social media post leads to embarrassment, a break up or maybe even a lost job. But for one ISIS militant, and his associates, a revealing social media post led to […]
Seven New Species Of Beautiful Tiny Frogs Uncovered In Brazilian Rainforest
Brazil’s rainforests are some of the most pristine, wildlife dense, jungles on the planet. They didn’t disappoint researchers recently, as they unearthed seven new species of brightly colored frogs. The delicate and extremely sensitive amphibians […]
Shareholder Meeting For World’s Largest Security Firm Ends In Chaos Over Aiding Israel Commit Genocide
For the second time in two years the annual shareholders’ meeting of security giant G4S has descended into chaos after nine activists were forcibly ejected by guards during protests against its operations in Israel. The […]
California Set For Massive New Gas Tax Hike
If you think low gas prices will mean lower prices to you at the pump all summer long, think again. Taking advantage of seasonally low gas prices, California is now considering increasing the amount of […]
Chinese Tech Giant Xiaomi Is Now The Second Largest Wearables Company In The World
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has quickly assembled a wide portfolio of world beating products, from smartphones to fitness trackers to its super popular backup batteries, yet has to date only sold the items in China. […]
Organic Food Found To Be More Profitable For Farmers
Whole Foods isn’t the only one selling organic fruits, vegetables and other products to hungry shoppers as it seems just about everywhere these days has shelves full of organic ingredients, even big corporations like Wal […]
Travelers Really Love Cheap Tickets: 72 Hour Sale Crashes Southwest’s Website
Southwest Airlines Co.’s 72 hour seat sale proved to be too much of a good thing, as huge public response slowed the website to a crawl on Wednesday. Despite adding capacity for the website in […]
Video Game Hall Of Fame Launches, Inducts Super Mario Bros, Doom In Inaugural Class
At one time the thought of a video game hall of fame seemed absurd. Games were played by young boys as a hobby and their appeal was fairly limited. But the launch of Nintendo combined […]
Virgin Galactic To Start Putting Customers In Space In Just 18 Months
Despite a fatal accident last year, space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced it will be carrying its first paying customers “within 18 months to two years”, according to chief executive George Whitesides. Speaking at the […]
China Has A Water Problem: Two Thirds Of Groundwater Unfit For Humans
China’s careless use of natural resources has already led to most of its fish stocks being depleted and it now looks as if the same fate could befall its water supply after a new study […]
New Photos Show North Korean Dictator Getting Even Larger, Possibly On Purpose
Things are anything but normal in North Korea, arguably the world’s most backward country, with new images released Thursday that confirm this. The images show North Korea’s brutal leader proudly displaying his ever-expanding belly in […]
Apple Caught Using Its App Store To Bully Rival Smartwatch Makers
Apple is notorious for playing hard ball with just about everyone and its treatment of rival smartwatch manufacturers appears to be no different, according to reports released late Wednesday. The makers of the Pebble smartwatch, […]
Russia Caught Hacking Deep Into German Government Computer Systems
A recent hack attack on the German government, also know as the Bundestag, has been directly traced back to Russian secret police, according to leaks revealed to a German newspaper. While officials within the German […]
DEA Getting Lazy As Wiretaps Soar 300% Over Nine Years
The FBI isn’t the only U.S. secret police agency to have a case of NSA envy. It’s also not the only one getting lazy, preferring rights eroding technology and rubber stamp approval processes rather than […]
Cancer Causing BPA Still Present In Majority Of U.S. Canned Foods
Fresh questions emerged Wednesday about the FDA’s impartiality as a new study showed that the world’s largest food companies and brands continue to coat metal food cans with bisphenol A (BPA) a chemical that causes […]
Web TV Companies Don’t Get It. Their Services Are Way Too Expensive
Hollywood has a bad history of seeing new, innovative technologies, as a way to screw their customers and take more money from them. For years they stubbornly fought various internet companies – Napster, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, […]
Don’t Be Evil? Google Is Now One Of America’s Largest Lobbyists
Before the Google boys were billionaires a couple dozen times over, the company promised to Do No Evil. Oh how times change. In addition to being one of the world’s largest privacy invaders, Google is […]
It’s Official: 2016 White House Race Will Likely Be Bush vs Clinton
Jeb Bush made an informal announcement that he will formally announce he is running for president, in two weeks. In a strange tweet published early Thursday morning, he announced “Coming soon…” with a link to […]
T-Mobile And Dish Network In Talks To Merge
Ahead of the FCC’s tough new network neutrality rules everyone in the tv and mobile phone space seems desperate to merge. The latest to just the party is T-Mobile and the Dish Network, whose merger […]
NFL Announces First Regular Season Game To Stream On The Web For Free
In what is likely to be the media deal of the year, the National Football League has partnered with Yahoo for the one time internet darling to be the exclusive partner to deliver the first-ever […]
ISIS Announces Plans To Expand Into Africa
The threat from ISIS is gathering momentum as it is increasingly using its new found wealth to expand into foreign territories. While it already has an alliance with Nigerian terror group Boko Haram, the group […]
Google Secretly Storing All Your ‘OK Google’ Voice Commands
Google doesn’t have a good reputation for protecting user privacy so, while disturbing, it should come as no surprise that a free service from Mountain View abuses what little you have left. It was discovered […]
Apple Suffers Rare Failure As It Recalls Beats Speakers Over Fire, Burn Concerns
It isn’t often that Apple, the world’s most valuable company, makes a mistake. But that’s exactly what happened Wednesday after it was forced to recall its Beats Pill XL speaker after a number of reports […]
Anti Vaccination Movement Leads To Return Of Diphtheria In Spain
Government health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, which withholds much needed vaccinations to deadly diseases on the grounds the shots are more harmful to children than the diseases […]
Pinterest Is Going To Crush All Other Social Networks In Profitability
Social networks are not known to make money. While Facebook makes some money, its mostly via accounting tricks and a unique growth cycle rather than cold hard cash. Ill-fated Myspace and undermonetized Twitter all have […]
Despite $35 Billion Crime Spree Head Of JP Morgan Is Now A Billionaire And Not In Jail
For common folks crime doesn’t pay, but if you’re the head of a too-big-to-fail criminal racket known as a bank, in this case JP Morgan, it certainly does. And quite handsomely. Bloomberg, which tracks those […]
British Student Union Votes To Boycott Israel Over Palestinian Genocide
Despite Israel’s massive propaganda efforts across global media outlets, the world is starting to take notice of the appalling atrocities the state is committing against Palestinians, in what has become an act of genocide. The […]
FBI Is Investigating Disgraced FIFA President Blatter For Bribery
The FIFA soccer scandal continues to widen as reports surfaced late Tuesday that the FBI and U.S. prosecutors are investigating Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, as part of a wide ranging probe […]