• Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science

  By Betsy Mason | A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing...

   

• NewScientist: Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans

  NewScientist | The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors...

   

• Microsoft to ban freedom of speech?

  By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology...

   

• Television May Be Doing Your Thinking

  By Lynn Berry | The world’s biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games...

   

• DNA finger printing could soon reveal your surname

  By Richard Alleyne | The laboratory which invented genetic fingerprinting believes the same technique could be refined to...

   

• ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise

  New Scientist | Last year, New Scientist revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed...

   

• Army scientists want to create ‘brain-wave helmet’

  By Mark Thompson / Washington | Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That’s why the U.S. Army...

   

• DNA Testing Expands to Lesser Crimes

  By Dan Morse | While unusual, here is a crime as alleged by Montgomery County police that joins the list of things harder...

   

• Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up

  Henry Blodget | The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully...

   

• RFID leakage is hushed up – claim

  MOST RFID products – like passports and Oyster cards – leak data like sieves says Brit firm, Peratech. By Tony Dennis |...

   

• UK airport tests facial-recognition technology

  Manchester Airport is testing facial-recognition technology as part of the UK £1.2bn e-Borders scheme to tighten controls. The...

   

• Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

  By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old...

   

• Passengers test new face scanners

  Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce...

   

• E-Passports ‘can be cloned’

  Microchipped passports the Government claim are foolproof can be cloned in minutes, it has been reported.  By Jon Swaine Test...

   

• FBI seizes local Md. library computers

  The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday. Darrell...

   

• Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence

  By David Morris | Al Gore’s heroic speech challenging us to make our electrical system 100 percent renewable promised...

   

• Free Drug Samples Usually Go to Wealthiest Patients

  NaturalNews | Contrary to claims by the pharmaceutical industry, it is usually wealthier and insured patients who receive...

   

• British NASA hacker to face U.S. trial

  LONDON (Reuters) – A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against...

   

• Should we trust DNA?

  SFGate | The role of DNA testing in the justice system has seemed unassailable – who can argue with the odds of two...

   

• How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?

  State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona’s DNA database when she stumbled across two felons...

   

• Printer dots raise privacy concerns

  By Thomas Frank | The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties...

   

• Single Brain Neurons are Smarter Than You Think

  By David Gutierrez | Stimulation of a single brain cell is enough to transmit sensations, Dutch and German researchers have...

   

• Pentagon Claims Cluster Bombs ‘Save Lives’

  By Noah Shachtman  |The Pentagon not only told the world yesterday that it would keep on using cluster bombs — it...

   

• U.S. military to patrol Internet

  UPI | The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist...

   

• Laptops Lost Like Hot Cakes at US Airports

  By Agam Shah | Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye,...