A new study that is set to be published in Addiction, an online journal, reports that an estimated 18% of drug users in the United States get the drugs (got the drugs) from the Silk Road. The study took place at the end of 2012 an...
Thanks to a presentation done on the surveillance abilities that the NSA possesses, by Jacob Applebaum, at the Chaos Communications Congress, we know that it is possible for the NSA to infiltrate your Wi-Fi from up to 8 miles away...
Just before shops selling cannabis open in Denver, the Denver Post has launched a new site dedicated to the marijuana subject with The Cannabist. It is a bold move and interesting to see a “legitimate” news source supp...
Hand and face transplants might sound like something from a science fiction novel. Need a new face because of an accident and you can just get a transplant. Same thing for hands, right? Eight years ago science fiction became scien...
Cisco is “deeply concerned” about the idea of there being backdoors that the NSA use in their devices. The company that designs, manufactures and sells networking equipment was definitely put off by the information rev...
The year 2014 might turn out to be something very special as a biotech firm is aiming to build a human liver via 3D printers. It’s crazy, but San Diego biotech firm Organovo is promising that it will successfully do this by the en...
The Target nightmare continues, for both Target and their customers. In light of the massive data hack during the holiday season, Target has become the target in dozens of lawsuits. So far the company has been named in about 40 di...
After winning the battle in court on patent infringement Apple is once again asking for a ban on older Samsung products. The products Apple hopes to see off the market for good are the same products that a U.S. court found infring...
Target has just acknowledged that PINs were stolen in the massive security breach their system suffered roughly a month ago. The hack occurred at the end of November and beginning of December, and along with PINs being stolen, aro...
Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, who lived in Garden Grove, California, has just plead guilty to federal terrorism charges. Nguyen, who had previously spent several months in Syria fighting against Bashar al-Assad, had reportedly been turned...
These are the things flying birds see on a daily basis. I wish I was a bird.
The America Civil Liberties Union has sought to block the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass collection of telephone data. In June, the ACLU brought a lawsuit hoping to gain an injunction against the NSA to keep them from...
On Tuesday Apple was awarded the patent for a heart-rate monitor which is expected to be embedded and work with the upcoming iWatch. The company was awarded 22 other patents, along with the one which has been named the “seam...
The US Army has developed a laser that can shoot down drones. The laser weaponry, named the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, has been put onto a vehicle and the Army has successfully tested it out by shooting down mortar she...
Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested earlier in the year and is allegedly the man behind the website Silk Road, is demanding that $30 million in Bitcoins that were seized from him be returned. When he was arrested in San Francisco, aut...
