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18 Antibiotics in Animal Feed Are "High Risk" for Humans and the FDA Approved...
Photo via NRDCA batch of just-released documents show that at least 30 antibiotics commonly used in animal feed have never met FDA standards for use and the agency classified 18 of them as “high risk”...
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If You Got a New Job Last Year, There's a Pretty Good Chance It Was in the...
If you got a new job last year, it might look like this. Image: Elena Elisseeva, ShutterstockIf you got a new job over the last year or so, there's a pretty solid chance you got it in the clean energy...
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A Grassroots Campaign Wants to Use the Fourth Amendment to Shut Off the NSA’s...
The Off Now campaign wants to cut off an NSA data center's water supply. Video via Youtube/Tenth Amendment CenterWhile President Obama has proposed some minor changes to mass surveillance, a grassroots...
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Apple Patented a Solar-Powered, Dual-Sided Touchscreen Laptop
via US Patent OfficeThe United States Patent and Trademark office just granted Apple a pretty interesting patent: Something like a Macbook with an iPad glued to the back, which—when left in the...
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Police in Virginia Want Spy Blimps to Protect Ports
Photo via US Defense Imagery.Police in Newport News, Virginia are feeling slightly deflated. Last August, FEMA denied the department’s request for $240,000 to purchase a “tethered aerial surveillance...
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When Should a Hit Gaming Franchise Be Laid to Rest?
New video game consoles never launch with their best work readily available, so there has been a lot of pent up frustration amongst gamers who handed over hundreds of dollars for Sony and Microsoft's...
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Black Holes Aren't As Inescapable As We Thought
Black hole system H1743-322 with "bullets" of ionized gas ejecting from right outside the event horizon. Photo: NASA GoddardSteven Hawking has sent a bit of a shock through the astrophysics community,...
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NASA Wants the Private Sector to Make Lunar Landers
Astronaut Dale A. Gardner holds a sign referring to recovered satellites. Photo: NASALunar exploration enthusiasts were dealt a blow yesterday, with the news that China's Yutu rover—the first mobile...
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Google Is Still Trying to Figure Out Why People Would Want to Wear Glass
Ever since Google first unveiled the original prototypes for its wearable Glass technology in 2012, the tech giant has faced one major obstacle to large-scale adoption: what the thing looks like. Sure,...
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'Surgery Academy' Is the Surgery Class for Google Glass
Photo: Surgery AcademyGoogle Glass is being used to fly drones, make porn, and infiltrate movie theaters and restaurants, but can it be used to teach surgery? One startup thinks so.It’s called Surgery...
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A Dutch Court Unblocked The Pirate Bay in a Win for Net Neutrality
via FotocommunityPeople in the Netherlands can log onto the Pirate Bay again. The two top Dutch ISPs won their two-long year fight to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the providers had to block the...
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'Smart' Holograms Are the Cheap Health Monitors of the Future
Via RealView ImagingBasically anytime someone does something new with a hologram it grabs headlines, especially straight-out-of-sci-fi stuff like this new Star Wars-inspired phone that shows a...
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What the Communist Witch Hunt for Pete Seeger Says About the NSA Today
Pete Seeger. Image: FlickrPete Seeger, who died today, penned some of the most essential folk music ever. "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," which he...
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A Virtual Reality Train Ride Reveals a Link Between Height and Paranoia
A virtual trip on the London Underground feels different when your height is adjusted. Screenshot via Youtube/Medical Research CouncilAs anyone who’s been to a gig and isn’t six feet tall has probably...
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Use Water As Printer Ink to Save Money and Trees
Filling these with water is a lot less expensive than buying new ones. Photo via Flickr/Steve BowbrickWith the news that HP has won more lawsuits to stop ink cartridge makers producing knock-off...
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Blame the Press, Not Snowden, for Redaction Blunders in NSA Documents
Photo via Shutterstock.As you've probably heard, the National Security Agency and its British sidekick GCHQ are able to extract private data—such as geographical information, your address book, and...
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When Will the Internet Defeat Link Rot?
Homestar Runner's 404 page remains the best on the Internet.A few days ago, I renewed the hosting for a single-serving joke site I haven't updated in more than a year, partially because the domain...
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It Only Took the NSA 61 Years to Hire Its First Privacy and Civil Liberties...
The NSA in the 60s, when it first could've used that privacy officer. Photo: NSA.govThe NSA was formally established by president Harry Truman in 1952. In 2014, the nation's most secretive spy agency...
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Things Are Looking Grim for Nintendo
It's a sign of the peculiar gap that exists between culture and commerce when a legendary video game company produces some of the best work seen in recent memory and still ends up in the red. That's...
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The Latest Cost of the Target Hack: $153 Million Worth of New Credit Cards
Photo: Roadsidepictures/FlickrA month and a half after news first broke about the massive breach of Target's debit and credit card data, the hits keep on coming. US banks have already replaced more...
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