Zimmerman Free on $1M Bond!!
Murder defendant George Zimmerman calmly walked out of the Seminole County Jail today with the help of donations to his legal defense fund.
Zimmerman posted the $1 million bond thanks in part to the $20, 000...
Secretly Monitor Cop Stops with New ACLU App
Citizens, citizen journalists and activists have run afoul of the police before, when recording police activities. This is despite the fact that police have all manner of recording equipment of their own, ...
GOP fights over major food stamp crackdown
The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday unveiled its approach for a long-term farm and food bill that would reduce spending by $3.5 billion a year, almost half of that coming from cuts in the federal fo...
Twitter account re-Tweets credit card Tweets, educating users against the habit
A fairly new Twitter account has been created, one intended to perhaps alarm / frighten people into halting their over-sharing on social media sites. In this case, the over-sharing isn't about some embarra...
Orbitz steering MAC users to pricier search results
Microsoft and Windows OEMs have long used the "Apple Tax," which is the "extra" that Mac users pay to get a similar machine vs. a Windows box as a selling point. However, those who are OK with paying such a tax...
Microsoft to sites hosting leaked ‘Xbox 720’ document: Take it down
The authenticity of a massive 56-page document that was leaked over the weekend seems to no longer be in question. That document purported to reveal the Redmond, Wa.-based company's plans for their next-ge...
Apple Plans to Shrink the Dock Connector in iPhone 5
TechCrunch says it has confirmed that the iPhone 5 will move away from the 30-pin dock connector that AppleiDevices have sported since the third generation iPod. Rumors about a new dock connector have be...
New Breathalyzer smells cancer on your breath
A simple invention could save thousands of lives and drastically reduce the amount of time and expense in screening patients for cancer.
The cancer-detecting breathalyzer system was unveiled on June 2 at the a...
Cambridge, Massachusetts, mayor considers large soda ban
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The mayor of Cambridge has proposed limiting the size of soda and sugar-sweetened beverages sold in city restaurants, saying she was inspired by a similar measure in New York C...
Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador’s London Embassy
On June 14, Britain's Supreme Court dismissed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's bid to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. On Tuesday, June 19, in a continuing effort...
