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US Federal Drug Administration is working to regulate face and hand transplants
Hand and face transplants might sound like something from a science fiction novel. Need a new face because of an accident and you can just get a transplant. Same thing for hands, right? Eight years ago...
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Department of Justice pays over $500,000 to enhance LinkedIn profile
The United States Department of Justice is spending $544,338 on… their LinkedIn profile. Their goal is to “reach a large-scale professional network of existing and potential Criminal Division...
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Obama considers making it easier to hire tech talent, to avoid...
After the less than stellar launch of the Healthcare.gov website, President Barack Obama and his administration are contemplating their hiring guidelines when it comes to specialists in the tech...
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Does NSA spy on members of Congress?
On January 3, US Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA which essentially asked if the NSA is spying on or did spy on members of the United States Congress. The National Security Agency (NSA)...
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White House fires main Healthcare.gov contractor
The White House has finally decided to fire CGI Federal, the original contractor charged with creating Healthcare.gov, which was the centerpiece of President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act and...
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US government accuses Apple of “character assasination” over anti-trust monitor
The US Department of Justice has responded to Apple’s request that Michael Bromwich be removed from his monitoring role — with a letter accusing Apple of “character assassination.”“Apple has chosen a...
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Japan to start taxing foreign downloads in 2015, according to report
It’s quite common for foreign physical goods being taxed when imported, but not so much with digital goods. According to a report out of Nikkei, however, that might be set to change in Japan by...
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China introduces new regulations to take away anonymity for internet users
China has decided to crack down on online anonymity by requiring anyone who posts a video in China to include their real name.China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and...
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Healthcare.gov is incredibly insecure, according to experts
The Healthcare.gov website is incredibly insecure, so much so that a white hat hacker was able to find its records of 70,000 people through an advanced Google search.The hacker is David Kennedy, who...
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China accidentally redirects million of users to website that provides...
China’s massive population of internet users had to suffer through an hours-long internet outage recently, and the country’s Great Firewall is taking the blame. Users attempting to visit China’s most...
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Tim Cook unhappy US government won’t let Apple tell everyone about NSA activites
Apparently Apple’s CEO would like to disclose just what data Apple has shared with the American government, but can’t due to the gag order.Apple and other companies have received a lot of criticism...
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“You are being watched” [Infographic]
Is complete online privacy possible? Probably not. But we can try.
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Obama promotes ConnectED initiative, will increase student access to technology
President Obama announced that leaders in the tech industry have pledged $750 million towards bolstering the access students have to technology.President Obama said that he wanted to make it so that in...
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Major tech companies release information on government surveillance requests
Yesterday, several of the major tech companies released information on the amount of requests they received from the government.Now the numbers still aren’t specific, and deal in ranges, but it does...
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California wants Google to move their barge in the San Fransisco Bay
Apparently the state of California was also surprised by Google’s barge in the San Fransisco Bay, and have ordered it to be moved.They have told the developers of Treasure Island that the barge does...
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New Turkish law gives government more power to close websites, get personal...
Turkey has just passed new legislation that gives them easier access to personal data and also allows them to easily shut down websites.The government is saying that this will actually strengthen...
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NSA phone data is used for drone strikes, innocents have “absolutely” been...
The Intercept, a new publication headed by Glenn Greenwald, who broke many of the NSA revelations last year, has published a new report regarding the NSA. The report reveals that data from NSA phone...
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European Commission wants to lessen US control over Internet
The European Commission has announced that it believes that American influence over the internet needs to be lessened.Of course a lot of this has to do with the spying being done by the United States...
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UAE testing out delivery by drone in Dubai
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is testing out drones and their delivery applications in Dubai.Interestingly enough, the first things that the drones will be carrying will be government documents like...
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Senator Rand Paul files class action lawsuit against President Obama because...
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who describes himself as a “constitutional conservative” is a known libertarian, has filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama, as well...
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How ironic: US government wants to keep metadata collected by NSA past 5-year...
Due to the lawsuits that have been filed against the National Security Agency (NSA), the American government wants to keep the records from the NSA bulk metadata collection program past the five years...
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American government sues Sprint, says Sprint overcharged by $21 million for...
The American government has filed a lawsuit against Sprint, claiming that the company overcharged the government by $21 million for the wiretap operations that Sprint allowed. The US government...
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UK government employee who helped create UK’s porn filter has been arrested...
Patrick Rock, who is an advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the deputy director of policy, has resigned from his post on Monday because he was arrested in February for being in possession...
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Japan declares that Bitcoin is not a currency
The Japanese government has decided that Bitcoin is not a currency, and therefore those in charge of regulations may not get into any trouble concerning the $500 million loss of Bitcoin that Mt Gox...
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Britain gives $62 million to fund research into connecting everything to the...
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has committed more funding towards to the Internet of things, which is a concept that involves having sensors which connect to the Internet in almost...
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US senator says CIA hacked and intimidated Congress
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has accused the CIA of hacking into Senate computers and looking for an internal agency interrogation report...
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EU votes in favor of universal mobile charger using micro USB for all mobile...
Looking for the right charger for your mobile device in Europe might soon become very easy. The European Union has recently voted in favor of introducing a single universal mobile charger for all...
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Google has enhanced encryption for Gmail to thwart NSA and other spies
Google made an announcement on its blog today that is sure to make most if not all Gmail users happy. Amidst all the news on government surveillance, Google will now be enhancing its encryption for...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter thinks the NSA is spying on him, so he...
Former US President, Jimmy Carter, believes the NSA is spying on him. Instead of taking his chances, he tells NBC in an interview that he goes with a more traditional form of communication instead of...
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Anti-video game violence legislator charged with bribery and corruption
Leland Yee, who is a California state senator and vocal advocate against violence in video games, has been arrested on charges of bribery and corruption. Yee made headline in 2005 for sponsoring a...
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Justice Cap will hide your face from Google Glass
The world is slowly becoming a place where privacy does not matter, where people get to wear fancy glasses with cameras ready to take your picture. Well, you can fight back if you have $14.99 to spare...
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US admits to secretly creating Cuban version of Twitter to cause unreset in Cuba
ZunZuneo, the ‘Cuban Twitter’ which at one point had as many as 40,000 users, was actually created in secret by the United States government as a way to eventually inspire unrest in the Cuban...
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Google explains how it protects user privacy and deals with search warrants...
These days, most major companies like Google have readily available transparency reports for the public to see. They contain details like how many requests for data were issued in a given time period,...
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Microsoft is extending Windows XP support for another year… but only in the UK
The UK government has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see support for XP extended for a year after the April 8, 2014 deadline. The agreement cost the government £5.5 million, or roughly US$9.2...
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