Archive for September, 2010
Saudi King Meets Top U.S., Canadian Counter-Terror Officials
September 20th, 2010Via: AFP: Saudi King Abdullah and security czar Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz have held talks with top intelligence and counter-terror officials from the United States and Canada, the SPA news agency reported. John Brennan, assistant to US President Barack Obama for homeland security and counter-terrorism, discussed in Jeddah on Sunday “issues that concern the […]
Ally’s GMAC Mortgage Halts Home Foreclosures in 23 States
September 20th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Ally Financial Inc.’s GMAC Mortgage unit told brokers and agents to halt foreclosures on homeowners in 23 states including Florida, Connecticut and New York. GMAC Mortgage may “need to take corrective action in connection with some foreclosures” in the affected states, according to a two-page memo dated Sept. 17 and obtained by Bloomberg […]
FDA Rules Won’t Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Salmon
September 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species. Despite a growing public demand for more information […]
Street View: Thousands of Germans Ask Google to Blur Their Homes
September 20th, 2010Via: Spiegel: Germans are amongst the most frequent users of Google’s Street View service, but that doesn’t mean they want pictures of their homes on the Internet. At least 100,000, and possibly a lot more, have registered online to have their homes made unrecognizable. Germans may have a reputation for staring at people, but they […]
End the Misery of PMS With… (Wait for it)
September 20th, 2010Via: University of Birmingham: Neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham are working on a novel approach to ending the scourge of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) after identifying, for the first time, an organic cause for the condition. Researchers led by Dr Thelma Lovick have shown that premenstrual-like symptoms can be triggered in female rats by a […]
U.S. Debt Actually $200 Trillion?
September 20th, 2010Via: NewsCore: THE actual figure of the US’ national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited on Sunday by the New York Post. “The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging in Enron accounting,” said […]
Refusing Full Body X-Ray Scans at the Airport
September 20th, 2010A Cryptogon reader writes about refusing the new x-ray scans: [Name Deleted] just got back from a business trip to [City] and he said this was the first time he was requested to go through an airport’s whole body imaging scanner. He declined. The TSA person asked if he had a pacemaker, and he said […]
China Cuts Some High Level Talks with Japan Over Detained Trawler Captain
September 19th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: China has pledged to take “strong” action to force Japan to release the captain of a fishing boat held since Sept. 7 as state television reported relations between the countries have been “seriously damaged.” China’s government is demanding that Japan unconditionally release the captain, whose detention was extended to Sept. 29, the Ministry […]
Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
September 19th, 2010Via: New York Times: IMAGINE you are a venture capitalist. One day a man comes to you and says, “I want to build the game layer on top of the world.” You don’t know what “the game layer” is, let alone whether it should be built atop the world. But he has a passionate speech […]
SMU and DARPA: Fiber Optic Interface to Link Robotic Limbs, Human Brain
September 19th, 2010Via: SMU: Lightning-fast connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by SMU engineers. Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challenges and intense time schedules, the Neurophotonics Research Center will develop two-way […]
