Journalists are excited by social media, but most voters still rely on TV for their political news This was the first Twitter election, some commentators declared – on Twitter. Oh no it wasn’t. This was the 14th television election in the United States. Ever since 1960, when 61 per cent of households with TVs watched the first televised debate between Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy, presidential campaigns ...

Two Navy SEALs are bringing world-class encryption to the iPhone, for everything from state secrets to celebrity selfies. But that means it can be used by criminals as well.   Russell Brandom The first rule, former Navy SEAL Mike Janke tells me, is that you have to assume the worst: "Everything you do and say — email, text, phone — is monitored on some level." He's talking about paramilitary operations — sp ...

Rio De Janeiro: A court in Brazil said it has ordered YouTube to remove clips of the movie that has touched off deadly protests across the Muslim world, the latest in a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against the video-sharing site in Rio De Janeiro. Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the site ten days to remove videos, which has raised the ire of many Muslims around the world. A ...

By Associated Press Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more went on television to say the plane was so unsafe they refused to fly it, a small circle of U.S. Air Force experts knew something was wrong with the prized stealth fighter jet. Coughing among pilots and fears that contaminants were leaking ...

It's not what science knows, but what it doesn't, that really matters. By David P. Barash I have been teaching and doing research at the university level for more than 40 years, which means that for more than four decades, I have been participating in a deception — benevolent and well intentioned, to be sure, but a deception nonetheless. As a scientist, I do science, and as a teacher and writer, I communica ...

Thatta, Special Report by Shoaib Habib Memon: A Pakistani From District Khairpur Province Sindh-based Mechanical engineer has made such a unique claim that is apparently too hard to ‘digest’ but he is confident that a device recently developed by him can help use water as a fuel to run motor vehicles. Agha Waqar demonstrated in Sports Complex in presence of Federal Minister for [caption id="attachment_2420" ...

  Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is by Bill McKibben If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record fo ...

HAARP is a congressionally initiated programme jointly managed by US Air Force and US Navy. The programme’s purpose is to provide a research facility to conduct pioneering experiments in ionospheric phenomenon and to assess the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technique for communication and surveillance uses. Ever since the existence of HAARP became public, a number of independent researche ...