The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is in the process of making a neural-coding device capable of controlling artificial limbs when seeded in the brain. The device has had [...]
The death rate in the United States increased last year for the first time in a decade, according to preliminary federal data, alarming experts about the state of America’s health. De [...]
A Seattle agency and a website that publishes documents obtained through public records requests are engaged in a legal dispute with a company that supplies the city with smart electric met [...]
Oklahoma police agencies are being provided with devices that enable law enforcement to scan prepaid debit cards and pinpoint funds associated to them for civil asset forfeiture, enabling o [...]
MIT researchers claim to have created the first five-atom quantum computer capable of cracking traditional encryption methods, potentially enabling the government to crack all encryption in [...]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has accidentally deemed thousands of veterans dead and canceled their benefits over the last five years, according to recent department data that rev [...]
Obesity is on the rise in America. According to recent reports, approximately 40% of US women are obese and American teenagers continue to cake on extra pounds. The two reports from the Cen [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not taken sufficient measures against methane emissions produced by the fracking industry, but why? According to an environmental watchdog grou [...]
A roboticist from California has created a contraption that intentionally stabs people with a needle. Contrary to its mechanical brethren, this is the first robot purposefully designed to i [...]
This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone, a mass of water depleted of oxygen that starves marine life, will encompass approximately 5,898 square miles, which is about the size of Connecti [...]
