North Shields, Tyne and Wear: An Esso petrol station that has run out of Diesel.

1.10pm: And thus it appears that the government's…

A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it.

Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second.

The technology…

Bad time to be unemployed...

SEATTLE—When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

 

Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer…

SURPRISE....NOT!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/the-rich-get-even-richer.html?_r=1

NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that sometimes seems inured to…

Craig Monteilh describes how he pretended to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats, shining a light on some of the bureau's more ethically murky practices

Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow…

The savage cuts to Greece's health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/Aids and malaria in the beleaguered nation, said a leading aid organisation on Thursday.

The incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the first 10…

Great one, let the people pay for getting spyied by the government. Are they kidding??? Please people of Canada, don´t let his shit untouched. If it works they may want to try the same in my country. LOL.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6379/125/

One of the major unanswered questions about Bill C-30, the lawful access/online surveillance bill, is who will pay for…

It´s one f***ing year now and still no one helps the people in Syria, can´t believe it. Who are these people calling themselfes politicans, elected by me, to represent my interests? Of course no one believes they can change anything if they don´t even manage to get the Red Cross into affected cities for example.…

In a 2007 speech at New York’s Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his audience that, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”



He later clarified to CNN, “Perhaps there are those who engage in [homosexual] activities … but these are not…

Now that the FBI has lopped off a few of Anonymous’ tentacles, expect the US government to begin an aggressive legal, rhetorical and national brainwashing campaign to classify hacktivists as terrorists.

FBI director Robert Mueller has even made comments to that effect at both a January Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a San Francisco cyber-security conference…

A 23-year old student from Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England is bound for America. That wouldn't be unusual—except that Richard O'Dwyer won't go voluntarily. The UK Home Secretary has today agreed to extradite O'Dwyer over US copyright infringement charges for running a "linking site" called TVShack.

Back in June 2010, US Immigration…

MUMBAI: In a landmark decision that could set a precedent on how life-saving drugs under patents can be made affordable, the government has allowed a domestic company, Natco Pharma, to manufacture a copycat version of Bayer's patented anti-cancer drug, Nexavar, bringing down its price by 97%.



In the first-ever case of compulsory licencing approval, the Indian Patent Office on Monday cleared the application of Hyderabad's…

A global media watchdog group has released its “Enemies of the Internet” list for 2012, citing countries that inhibit freedom of expression on, or access to, the Internet.

In the report released Monday, Reporters…

Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts.



Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the country in the past month. The violent crackdown against “emo” Iraqi teenagers came after the Iraqi interior ministry declared them as “devil worshippers.”…

The war in Syria goes on and on... When will our governments finnaly try to stop the Syrian government from killing her own people?

Intense black smoke billowing from the flames of an oil fire blocks out the sun. A teenage mom with a one-day-old baby seeks shelter in a dimly-lit basement from a barrage of missiles and shells.

Incoming fire smashes through the wall of a house being used as an unofficial media center…