Google has agreed to pay $500 million in fines, for running illegal Canadian pharmacy adds.
The U.S. Department of Justice, said it is illegal to mail prescription drugs from outside the country. Many of the Canadian online pharmacies did not require a prescription either.
Google officials admit they knew what they were doing could get them […] Continue Reading…
“Samsung welcomes the Düsseldorf District Court’s decision to suspend the pan-European preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.”- Rachel Jones, Samsung
Early in August Apple filed a complaint with the EU, over the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Apple claims the Samsung tablet is too similar to the iPad 2. At first the EU […] Continue Reading…
Human skin has been bio-engineered to include spider silk. Scientists in the Netherlands then fired a bullet at it. Turns out it’s bullet proof!
Don’t get too excited, it was only a .22 caliber bullet. But it shows promise, after all spider’s silk is the strongest thing in nature.
https://youtu.be/iX3LtVuGp4c
The experiment is known as 2.6g 329m/s […] Continue Reading…
“If the U.S. or the EU are proudly focusing on internet freedom, while security and other ICT products made in the West are used to repress the same citizens we are trying to protect, this is clearly neither credible nor effective.”-Marietje Schaake, EU Member of Parliament from Netherlands
In Bahrain, where the […] Continue Reading…
Recently, the President of Germany criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel for going along with the European Central Bank in bailing out Greece, and other countries in economic trouble.
“That is asking for trouble in the long run and can only be tolerated in the interim.” and “I consider the sizeable purchase of individual states’ bonds […] Continue Reading…
The Germany auto industry has seen skyrocketing sales this year, mainly in China and India. But a Center Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, study predicts dire sales in the near future.
CAR boss Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, says the growing debt problems of Europe, United States, and even Japan, will eventually drag down the […] Continue Reading…
The Daily Telegraph quoted Ministry of Defense officials, saying the SAS (Special Air Service) is on the ground and taking part in the battle for Tripoli.
Not only that, but the British officials admit they’ve had “boots on the ground” for several weeks. The British SAS dress like civilians and use the same weapons the […] Continue Reading…
“Some in the department, including lawyers, have privately expressed concerns about the program.”-Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) revealed that the New York Police Department is using spy tactics “that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government” and “does so with unprecedented help from the CIA […] Continue Reading…
For the third time in eight days British Bobbies have killed using a taser, and pepper spray.
August 23, Greater Manchester Police officers tasered to death a 53 year old truck driver. They say they were trying to stop him from killing himself!
August 22, a 25 year old amateur rugby player, died after he was […] Continue Reading…
Researchers from around the world have been looking for the source yeast used in Lager beers. They found it, in Argentina!
Germany has laid claim as the creator of lager beers, more than 600 years ago. But scientists realized that the yeast used, Saccharomyces Pastorianus, is not native to Bavaria.
Scientists combed five continents, and found […] Continue Reading…