ISIS Propaganda videos are so highly effective in recruiting that the only way to counter them is through increasing awareness of the military defeats the terrorist group has suffered according to a recent article in […]
Month: July 2015
Burglars Steal Explosives From French Army Base
Detonators, plastic explosives and grenades have been stolen from a military site in the southeastern French town of Miramas according to authorities there. Mayor Frederic Vigouroux of Miramas said he does not know exactly how […]
Russian Bombers Flying Towards U.S. Intercepted By Air Force Fighter Jets Last Weekend
In what has been described as a testing of the time it takes the U.S. to respond to a military threat, two pairs of Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bombers approached the U.S. West coast on July […]
Scientists Puzzled By Bird Disappearance On Florida’s Gulf Coast
In scenes completely opposite to those depicted in the classic Hitchcock movie The Birds, areas once densely populated by birds on Florida’s Gulf Coast are eerily avian free. Seahorse Key, a 150-acre mangrove-covered dune off […]
Windows 10 To Upload Your Browser History To Microsoft By Default
As we’ve said before, beware of tech companies bearing ‘free’ gifts. If something is free and offered to you by a big tech company, it’s likely not the product: Your personal data is. When Microsoft […]
UN Bases In South Sudan Overrun by Civilians Fleeing Fighting
The human rights crisis in South Sudan continued to worsen on Tuesday as there are now more than 150,000 South Sudanese civilians sheltering behind the barbed wire fences of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping bases in […]
U.S. Kills ISIS Terrorists In First Afghan Drone Strikes
The first drone attacks by the United States against ISIS militants in Afghanistan has killed at least 49 fighters according to officials in Nangarhar province’s Achin district where the strikes took place. Ahmad Zia Adulzai, […]
Entertainment Giant Disney Pressures City To Extend Tax Free Status
While the Anaheim City Council charges many small entertainment providers an admission tax, the owners of the city’s “happiest place on Earth”, which provides the area with 28,000 jobs, have asked for a 30 year […]
Apple Watch Sales Drop 90 Percent From Opening Week
Things may not all be well in Cupertino, California as iconic consumer electronics giant Apple may have seen sales of the new Apple Watch plunge by 90 percent since the opening week, according to a […]
Russia Loses 5th Plane In Month As Shows Of Force Strain Military
Monday saw the latest evidence that Russia’s ageing and poorly funded military is being pushed to the breaking point as a Russian military aircraft crashed while taking off on a night training flight. Both pilots […]
Study Reveals Some People Age Up To Three Times Faster Than Average
A new international study has shown that you can not literally judge a book by its cover when it comes to age because some age at dramatic rates compared to others who share the same […]
Hawaii Becomes First State In The Nation To Ban Plastic Bags
Hawaii is continuing to lead the nation in public interest initiatives as just banning the sale of plastic bags not even one month after the island state banned smoking in all public places. The move […]
Global Mega DJ David Guetta Credits File Sharing For Packed Live Shows
While Big Media lobby bodies like the Recording Industry Artists Association (RIAA) insist on criminalizing those who share music and have long blamed piracy for the decline of their industry, renowned DJ and producer David […]
By Analyzing Consumer Buying Habits Marketers Can Now Predict Products That Will Flop
Some people are just attracted to failing products and researchers now have a way to connect their behavior to marketers hungry to know if they have a hit or miss on their hands. Published in […]
Advances In City Farming Tech Could See Most Families Growing Their Own Greens
Philips Electronics, once known for lightbulbs and flat panel televisions, is looking to put a garden inside every urban home thanks to its high tech new indoor gardening system known as GroWise. Using specially designed […]
Dark Net Websites Found To Be Mostly Scams
The TOR network, known home of cybercrooks and freedom fighters alike, is seeing a wave of copied websites set up to scam users of the so-called dark web. Cloned websites, which attempt to steal login […]
State Department Ruling Likely Will Ban 3D Printed Guns
The U.S. State Department is continuing its crackdown on digital blueprints of 3D printable gun parts and weapons last week as the Department issued notices that there will be changes made to the International Traffic […]
Researchers Find Hunches Could Be More Than A Feeling
The saying having “a gut feeling” may be based more on biological science than just a hunch according to medical researchers. Recent studies have found a correlation between mood and stomach bacteria with one of […]
Comet Philae Found To Have First Alien Life According To Researchers
Two leading Astronomers have claimed they have “unequivocal” proof of alien life on a comet carrying European Space Agency probes. They say the Philae probe dropped by mothership Rosetta onto the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet in November, […]
Mobile Commerce Expected To Be Majority Of Sales In Three Years
Online sales made on mobile devices will exceed $638 billion within three years according to a joint report released by Deloitte and Assocham. The Secretary general for Assocham D.S. Rawat said continuing development of e-commerce […]
Wall St Revolving Door Sees Former AG Holder Back Representing Big Banks
After not prosecuting any of the Wall St firms responsible for the market collapse in 2008, ex-Attorney General Eric Holder is going back to Covington & Burling, a corporate law firm that represents Wall St […]
Retail Giant Amazon Celebrating Birthday With Sale “Bigger Than Black Friday”
If you thought Black Friday was huge you haven’t seen anything yet says Amazon. With Black Friday, the day where Internet shoppers go berserk chasing bargains on offer on-line, still more than four months away, […]
Long Arm Of U.S. Justice On Display As German Hacker Gang Leader Sentenced
The leader of an international hacking gang that stole debit card details and withdrew more than $14 million in ATM withdrawals over just one weekend has been sent to prison for 50 months. A statement […]
Russia Shrugs Off World Sanctions As It Hosts Two International Summits
U.S. efforts to isolate Russia from the world scene as punishment for invading Ukraine may not be going as planned as Russian President Vladimir Putin will host two major international summits in Russia this week. […]
New Ruling Sounds Warning For Business Social Media Passwords
The way businesses handle their social media accounts is likely to change dramatically following a recent Houston bankruptcy court battle. Jeremy Alcede spent almost seven weeks in prison for refusing a federal judge’s order to […]
Floyd Mayweather Stripped Of Junior Middleweight Titles
What Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao failed to do in the ring, the World Boxing Organization has done – stripping Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr of a world title. Mayweather won the WBO welterweight title from Pacquiao on […]
SEC Launches Investigation Into Black Market For Tech Company Shares
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into the burgeoning “black market” of hot, privately held tech stock. The SEC investigation comes after the regulator observed a recent boom in the […]
Nigeria Sees Dozens Killed In Twin Terror Bombings
Terrorists conducted a deadly attack on Nigeria this morning where emergency agency officials confirmed 44 people were killed by two bombs that exploded at a packed mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in the Nigerian […]
Google Launches Uber Rival RideWith
Google’s complicated relationship with taxi-hailing app Uber got even more complex over the weekend as it emerged the Mountain View based search giant will launch a pilot project of its carpooling app RideWith, which allows […]
Deadly Weekend In Chicago Sees Seven Killed In Two Days
Chicago continues to grapple with violent gun crime as the city had seven killings in two days over the holiday weekend. The victims included 7-year-old Amari Brown, hit by a bullet meant for his father, […]