Yearly Archives: 2015

Crowdsourcing Medical Cases

This entry was posted on 06/25/2015

Crowdsourcing Medical Cases If you’re feeling unwell or you’re a doctor stuck on a difficult medical case, two services now […]

Government control of money transfers creates need for alterative currencies

This entry was posted on 06/16/2015

If enough people have a demand for a particular product, whether it is prostitution, gambling, drugs and alcohol, or an […]

Dutch Company Plans to 3D-Print a Metal Bridge in Amsterdam

This entry was posted on 06/16/2015

Amsterdam-based startup MX3D boasts the tagline “Printing outside the box” on its home page, and its recently announced bridge project […]

Microsoft's New Mosquito-Catching Drones Could Prevent Disease Epidemics

This entry was posted on 06/16/2015

Technology giant Microsoft is working on a new project which combines autonomous drones, cloud computing and genomics in a bid […]

The Future of Aviation

This entry was posted on 06/15/2015

“The first century of air travel has seen about 65 billion passengers take to the sky. The next 65 billion […]

Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data

This entry was posted on 06/14/2015

WASHINGTON – Hackers linked to China appear to have gained access to the sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and […]

House votes to block NSA snooping through Americans' emails

This entry was posted on 06/13/2015

Riding a wave of anti-snooping sentiment, the House voted Thursday to halt the government’s probing of Americans’ emails and other […]

Zimbabwe Phasing Out Currency Worth Virtually Nothing

This entry was posted on 06/13/2015

As the value of Zimbabwe’s currency diminishes to virtually nothing, people in the country will start to exchange local dollars […]

Hackers Obtain Personnel Data, Including Social Security Numbers, of Every Federal Employee, Union Says

This entry was posted on 06/12/2015

Hackers have access to the Social Security numbers and personnel data of every federal employee, a government worker union told […]

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Freedom Act fails to curtail NSA snooping

This entry was posted on 06/11/2015

Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious […]

Silk Road Judge Gets Death Threats

This entry was posted on 06/10/2015

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a subpoena to Reason.com, calling on the libertarian news site to provide information […]

Smackdown: Conservatives vs. Big Business

This entry was posted on 06/08/2015

“I don’t know why I’m here,” Republican Representative Billy Long, the stout auctioneer-turned-congressman from southwest Missouri, declared to laughter last […]