Archive for the 'Economy' Category
FDA Fired Employees Who Warned Congress About Approvals of Dangerous Medical Devices
January 30th, 2012Via: Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six […]
Portable DNA Sequencer Demonstrated at World Economic Forum
January 30th, 2012Via: Medical Express: It was the talk of Davos, grabbing the imagination of a forum otherwise shrouded in gloom: a miracle machine that cracks the code of life within hours and could revolutionise healthcare. Patients will no longer have to wait weeks to know if they have cancer and their doctors will know immediately what […]
Report Detailing Much Higher Costs of Containing European Economic Crisis
January 30th, 2012Via: The Automatic Earth: The report I refer to in the title requires a little background info: In Holland, where I’ll be for a few more days, there’s a “rogue” right-wing party named PVV (Party for Freedom). It has no cabinet ministers, but the minority moderate right-wing government needs its support to stay in the […]
Britain: Paratroopers Are Trained for Riot Control
January 29th, 2012Via: Telegraph: British troops are being trained in riot control tactics amid fears that violence and looting will return to Britain’s streets this summer. Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest “rioters” in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have […]
Copyright Industry Calls for Broad Search Engine Censorship
January 29th, 2012Via: Torrent Freak: At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The […]
Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets
January 29th, 2012Via: Harper’s Magazine: Fear, in any real market, is a natural emotion. There is the fear of not making a sale, not landing a job, not winning a client. Such fear is healthy, even constructive. It prods us to polish our wares, to refine our skills, and to conjure up—every so often—a wonder. But these […]
Iran Hits Back at EU with Own Oil Embargo Threat
January 29th, 2012Via: Reuters: Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies. … “They are the masters of bluffing,” one Mediterranean crude oil trader said of remarks […]
New Military Budget: Fewer Conventional Forces, More Special Forces and Terminator Robots
January 28th, 2012Via: Wired: About 80,000 Army soldiers and 20,000 Marines are getting downsized. Half of the Army’s conventional combat presence in Europe is packing up and ending its post-Cold War staycation. Replacing them, according to the $613 billion budget previewed by the Pentagon on Thursday: unconventional special-operations forces; new bombers; new spy tools; new missiles for […]
The Death of Used Video Games
January 27th, 2012Via: Kotaku: Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku. Sony’s PlayStation 3 currently supports Blu-Ray, which can contain 25 or 50GB of data compared to DVD’s 9GB. But that disc detail could be far less impactful to […]
Britain: National Patient DNA Database?
January 26th, 2012The document to which he’s referring is here: Building on Our Inheritance: Genomic Technology in Healthcare. Via: Kevin Townsend: You have to look long and hard, but eventually you find it. There, on page 51 of ‘Building on our inheritance – Genomic technology in healthcare’ is the one and only mention of the national whole […]
