Facebook, Microsoft release data on gov't surveillance

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Facebook is making new revelations about government orders for user data. (Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)

Facebook is making new revelations about government orders for user data. (Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said Friday night that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data. The announcements come at the end of a week when Facebook, Microsoft and Google, [...]

 

The Life-Science Delusion

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Source: DeviantArt

Source: DeviantArt

I realized at a young age that in order to fully understand the world we interact with, you must first understand science. I loved the idea of tiny efficient machines, known as cells, working in harmony and homeostasis to essentially keep your body functioning within the “real” world. This fascination led me to libraries (1) [...]

 

 

 

The War on Whistleblowers and Journalism

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Occupy Wall Street Protester Source: Wikimedia Commons

Occupy Wall Street Protester Source: Wikimedia Commons

There is a war on true journalism in the United States. There is corruption at every turn plaguing the Obama administration, from Fast and Furious gun running to the Benghazi stand-down. However, almost just as chilling is the new way in which the United States Federal government deals with true journalism that prints leaked information and legitimately attempts [...]

 

NASA’S SCI-FI VISION: ROBOTS COULD HELP HUMANITY MINE ASTEROIDS

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An artist concept offers a notional view of what a spacecraft built to capture an asteroid would look like. Image credit: NASA

An artist concept offers a notional view of what a spacecraft built to capture an asteroid would look like. Image credit: NASA

The prospects of a robotic manufacturing base operating off Earth is not as far-fetched an idea as it used to be, according to a study published by a team of researchers led by a physicist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Advances in robotics and remote manufacturing in the form of 3-D printing offer [...]

 

NSA: Tapped and Nowhere To Hide – Phone Calls, Texts and E-Mails

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WASHINGTON, DC – Protesters rally outside the U.S. Capitol against the NSA’s recently detailed surveillance programs June 13, 2013 in Washington, DC. Members of various action groups gathered to protest the ÒNational Security Agency’s abuses of law abiding Americans. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – Protesters rally outside the U.S. Capitol against the NSA’s recently detailed surveillance programs June 13, 2013 in Washington, DC. Members of various action groups gathered to protest the ÒNational Security Agency’s abuses of law abiding Americans. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

It has recently been reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) has thousands of analysts that can listen to all forms of your private communications, while the establishment will now likely use the press to yet even further condition the general public into submission. OpEd By Shepard Ambellas That’s right they are our masters and we are [...]

 

Ice in 6 out of 10 Fast Food Restaurants Dirtier than Toilet Water

 
 

A recent investigation by The Mail found that 6 out of 10 restaurants in Britain including McDonald’s, Burger King, and KFC, serve ice that is riddled with more bacteria than their toilets. Further, 4 samples were so contaminated that they posed a ‘hygiene risk’. Most of us avoid fast food restaurants due to the health-devastating, [...]