Biometric Identification: More Flawed Than You Think
Dreaming of a future in which you unlock your iPod with a retina scan? The Economist examines the weaknesses of biometric authentication (that is, IDing individuals by bodily traits such as their iris, fingerprint, etc.) Contrary to what many people assume, these methods of identifying people are quite fallible, here’s why: Thanks to gangster movies, [...]
Read More →Federal Agents Urged to ‘Friend’ People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals
A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo [...]
Read More →New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the [...]
Read More →Experts admit swine flu jab ‘may cause’ deadly nerve disease
Health chiefs have for the first time acknowledged that the swine flu jab may be linked to an increased risk of developing a deadly nerve condition.Experts are examining a possible association between the controversial jab and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, according to a report from official watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).Previously, the Government [...]
Read More →U.S. Will Enforce Marijuana Laws, State Vote Aside
LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice says it intends to prosecute marijuana laws in California aggressively even if state voters approve an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot to legalize the drug. The announcement by Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general, was the latest reminder of how much of the establishment has lined [...]
Read More →Your quantum superpowers
Alan Boyle writes:Physicist James Kakalios is famous for looking at the science behind comic-book superpowers, but his latest book is grounded in real-world science that can be as bizarre as anything the Watchmen could come up with: quantum mechanics. In “The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics,” Kakalios lays out his case that quantum physics is [...]
Read More →Anti-austerity protests rock Europe
France has witnessed the most massive demonstrations as protesters in Paris and other large cities rallied to decry French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to increase retirement age from 60 to 62. The strikes have closed hundreds of schools, refineries and train stations and grounded flights amid concerns that the situation could get worse. Meanwhile, unions [...]
Read More →‘FBI knew of Mumbai attacks in advance’
A report published by the Washington Post on Wednesday said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been tipped off in 2005 about an American national, who masterminded attacks on the Indian financial hub three years later. The man identified as David Coleman Headley underwent intensive training with banned militant groups in Pakistan, the [...]
Read More →‘US seeking to rewrite Iraq war history’
Washington continues to ignore studies by independent organizations questioning the accuracy of the US military’s tally of the civilian death toll in Iraq, Wasli told Press TV on Saturday. “I guess in any empire, we like to rewrite history to make ourselves look good. This is just another step in declaring ‘mission accomplished,” she added. [...]
Read More →Wind Power Without the Blades
By Alyssa Danigelisdiscovery.com Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks generate electricity when the wind [...]
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