Archive for August, 2012
‘The Internet Should be Adapted to Allow for Oversight by the National Security Agency’
August 1st, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: The U.S. Internet’s infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure and computer networks, the agency’s leader, General Keith Alexander, said today. Alexander spoke at the annual Def Con computer hacking conference in Las Vegas. It was […]
Digestible Microchips Embedded in Drugs
August 1st, 2012Via: Nature: Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signify the beginning of an era in digital medicine. “About half of all people don’t take […]
Body of Missing FBI Agent Found in Burbank
August 1st, 2012Obviously, temperature and humidity will affect this, but if the hikers smelled the corpse, what does that say about when Ivens died? To leave comments, click through to the main thread. Via: KABC: The body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens has been found in a wooded area in Burbank, police confirmed on Tuesday. Authorities […]
