MSNBC reported today that the flurry of torandoes throughout Alabama this week have now made the record books. This tornado season is the second deadliest in the history of the United states, having taken the lives of 343 people as of Saturday. The human toll can not be understated. Hundreds of lives were lost, but [...]

A high profile attorney and former VP for British pharmaceutical mega-company GlaxoSmithKline was re-indicted on several federal charges, including obstruction of justice and making false statements. The Justice Department, on April 14th, claimed that Lauren C. Stevens of North Carolina lied to the Food and Drug Administration in a series of letters sent in 2003, [...]

Wireless technology giant Fulton Innovations unveiled a series of new applications at The Gadget Show Live 2011 from April 13th to 17th aimed at making even more aspects of daily life wireless. The spectrum of products ranged from countertops that power kitchen appliances to flashing cereal boxes sure to catch the eye of any sugar-crazed [...]

On April 21, the FBI released an interesting document on the famous 1960′s music group, the Monkees, as part of its regular review and declassification of information no longer deemed of a classified nature. In the April 20 release, the Agency published a heavily redacted memo reveals that the L.A. FBI office was concerned about [...]

We are all familiar Open Source Software (OSS) and many of us use this type of software every day. Software such as the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser, Ubuntu operating system, Gateway Anti-Virus, Winpooch and the list goes on. It has been estimated that the use of OSS packages saves consumers $60 billion per year. This [...]

A federal jury has handed down a guilty verdict against the Miami doctor who attempted to bilk Medicare out of $23 million in an HIV injection and infusion scheme, the Department of Justice announced. Following a three-week trial, on April 14th Rene De Los Rios was convicted on one count conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud [...]

In a move to clean up the nation of dangerous prescription drugs, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are offering a nationwide effort on Saturday, April 30, called the “Drug Take-Back Day.” The effort is meant to help people rid their homes of expired or left-over prescription drugs [...]

Bradley Manning, a military trained intelligence analyst, allegedly downloaded classified US government documents and videos to his laptop and passed them on to Wikileaks in November of 2009. This has turned Manning, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange into both heroes and outlaws in an international public arena. Manning was arrested on May 26, 2010 in [...]

Let’s jump right into a juicy treasure story. 16 tons of gold and silver bars. That’s right: tons. ‘Peak your interest? This is a popular treasure legend and, like all stories that have been around for more than a minute, there are many different versions. It includes Jesuits, mines, unrest among the locals, a former [...]

The day was bound to come when the world of social networking starts to integrate with different parts of our everyday lives. Everyone knows that I’m always trying to scope out the latest, cutting edge technology, but I was surprised to find it in Pepsi’s latest soda vending machine. Once people could access social networks [...]