An anonymous reader passes along a piece up on Wired’s Danger Room about advanced medical tech that’s being used in the military, but is not available generally due to the lack of FDA approval….
An anonymous reader writes “Two separate studies from Australia and Holland give the lie to corporate entertainment industry claims that file sharers are unprincipled thieves out to rob the honest…
An anonymous reader writes “According to the Irish Times, the government of Ireland — the country that recently made blasphemy a criminal offense — has had extensive talks regarding the censorship of…
Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses…
Surprise! A Government Accountability Office review of piracy studies finds that they are largely guesses, based on untested assumptions. Is this what content owners thought they were getting when…
blackbearnh writes “Usually, Gov 2.0 deals mainly with outward transparency of government to the citizens. But SeeClickFix is trying to drive data in the other direction, letting citizens report and…
Gmer writes “Eming.com reports that OpenTTD, the open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has reached a milestone. OpenTTD 1.0.0 has been released 6 years after work started…
linguizic writes “Today Wikileaks released a video of the US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters, and at a van containing two…
Hugh Pickens writes “Science Daily reports on a study that has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers. In the study, conducted with 20,000…
