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Growing Backlash to Facebook’s Ambient Sound Recording Feature

More than 500,000 users have signed a petition asking Facebook to kill the sound recording feature. ...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. June 8, 2014

Facebook App Soon to Record All Sounds Entering User Smartphones

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 23, 2014

A new feature of the Facebook mobile app will allow it to record everything a user hears. ...

Obama’s Internet ID Plot Being Tested in Two States

Alex Newman May 16, 2014

A plot by the Obama administration to impose Internet IDs on Americans is now officially being rolled out, with pilot programs for the...

White House Solar Project Doesn’t Stand Up to Light of Day

Michael Tennant May 15, 2014

The Obama administration is being very secretive about its installation of solar panels on the White House, perhaps because they're expensive and ineffective....

Are “Killer Robots” in Our Future?

Selwyn Duke May 14, 2014

Will real-life Terminators soon roam modern battlefields? Killer robots don’t currently exist, but whether they should be developed and the implications of such...

Will Microchip Implants in Humans Become Mandatory?

Selwyn Duke May 3, 2014

Whether you call it a miraculous technological breakthrough or the mark of the beast, many scientists believe the day is coming when microchip...

Memo Reveals Clinton White House Paranoia Over Free Internet

Alex Newman April 27, 2014

A heavily redacted memo from then-President Bill Clinton’s White House, released last week as part of a vast cache of papers from the...

Study Shows Hope for Patients in “Vegetative” Coma

Dave Bohon April 21, 2014

A study from Belgium shows that many patients diagnosed with irreversible coma may actually have brain activity and may improve over time. ...

UN May Tax and Censor Post-U.S. Internet, Experts Warn

Alex Newman April 9, 2014

Following the Obama administration’s deeply controversial decision to cede U.S. control over key elements of the Internet’s architecture, experts and former officials are...

The Good News About Fukushima

Rebecca Terrell April 3, 2014

Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged in 2011 by a record-breaking earthquake and tsunami, is the subject of much controversy related to...

Facebook Facial Recognition Software Has Almost Human Accuracy

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 28, 2014

Facebook is developing facial recognition technology that has almost human accuracy. ...

NSA Creates Fake Facebook Server to Trap Targets

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 14, 2014

The latest disclosure from the Edward Snowden files reveals that the NSA pretends to be Facebook in order to trap targets. ...

Thanks to Fracking, U.S. Will Pass Saudi Arabia In Oil Production

Warren Mass March 12, 2014

Thanks to the success of U.S. oil companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” — a process used to extract oil trapped in...

U.S. Navy Sailors Sue Over Low-dose Radiation

Rebecca Terrell February 27, 2014

U.S. Navy sailors are suing the Fukushima utility TEPCO for exposing them to nuclear radiation during Operation Tomodachi, the humanitarian mission to aid...