Report: Government Agencies Have Been Mining Private Data from Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Others
CNN is reporting that intelligence agencies for the federal government has been spying on you. The agencies engaged in broad data mining operations, leading to the extraction of e-mail, photos and other private communications. The agencies were given access to data from the largest internet companies in the US and Britain. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and [...]
Shoplifter Tells Security Guard that He Has HIV “I’ll Bite You If You Touch Me”
June 6, 2013 1 Comment
In a country where some people are never given access to a better life, they might become menaces to society. This fact presented itself when a 34-year old man in Lufkin, Texas was charged with robbery after trying to shoflift in a store. When the man was caught, he alegedly told the security guard that [...]
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Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World Racism is never a laughing matter, but apparently some students of Wisconsin’s Baldwin-Woodville High School think it is. A number of classmates do not understand why an unnamed white male ninth-grade student had to be suspended for placing a KKK symbol and macramé noose on [...]
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Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World Technology already makes quite a fashion statement these days with phone covers, laptops, and mp3 players coming in all varieties of colors, prints, and shapes. What could possible top that? Gold-plated phones, laptops, and mp3 players. Heck, the same company that glorifies [...]
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Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World Forget the latest iPad minis. There is talk that the iWatch is coming soon! Reports from China, where Apple handles most of their manufacturing, say that the rumored watch is scheduled to hit the market next summer. It is alleged that the handy dandy more-than-a-wristband [...]
Continue reading …Navy Designing Railgun with 200 Mile Range, that Fires Missiles at Mach 10
October 2, 2012 5 Comments
The US Navy’s electromagnetic railgun programme has a chequered history of scientific breakthrough and budget busting. Berenice Baker profiles a warship weapon that can launch projectiles at Mach 10 without explosives, and explores whether investment is justified in hardware that guzzles energy and risks blowing itself to smithereens. “Railgun projectiles are generally non-explosive, relying on [...]
Continue reading …Students and Parents Revolt Against New Electronic Monitoring Device Used by Texas Schools
September 3, 2012 5 Comments
Students and teachers are revolting against a decision to make students where electronic ID badges so that administrators can keep up with them at all times. The Radio Frequency Identification System, or RFID, is causing an outrage among those in the community, as well as civil liberties advocates, who are calling it an invasion of [...]
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The new iPhone 5 is expected to be released by Apple in the near future, and it’s creating a frenzy of sell-off activity for the old iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. This might be for good reason. Some are saying that once the iPhone 5 is released and announced, there won’t be much of a [...]
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Apple is planning to release a smaller version of the iPad to be called the iPad Mini. According to the Apple blog site Macotakara, a source from Asia says that the new device is going to have a screen that is just 7.85 inches in width. The product is expected to go on sale in [...]
Continue reading …NASA Nervous about Landing on Mars in “Most Important Mission of the Decade”
August 5, 2012 No Comment
The Mars Rover has traveled 354 million miles, at 13,200 miles per hour. That’s quite a distance to travel and quite a fast way to go. Now, NASA must face up to “7 minutes of terror” as they try to figure out how to get this thing on the ground in one piece. It’s not [...]
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