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Extreme Flyer, a company that manufactures and sells $99 toy drones, will sell plans for printing drone accessories on a 3D printer.   “Before, if someone wanted a helicopter or a remote-control toy, they’d go into a store and buy

Google has acquired eight different robotics companies in the last year, and has just added a major partner in their quest for a robot army: Foxconn.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the “long time Apple manufacturing partner” is

Looks like an Obama endorsement isn’t carrying as much weight as it used to carry. Alvarez got a last minute endorsement from the President, but to no good.  No doubt the endorsement was to drive people to the polls on

According to a disabled Army vet, a Texas Starbucks denied him entry into the coffee establishment because he was accompanied by his service dog “Verbena.” Yancy Baer traveled to Houston from San Antonio on behalf of the national organization Canine

The government’s report on Friday showed that job growth was ‘sluggish’ for the month of January and in particular, job growth in the healthcare sector was ‘flat.’ But the rest of the private service sector had a dreadful month. The

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rodgers accused journalist Glenn Greenwald of selling the material Edward Snowden removed from NSA servers.  The accusations came during a House hearing on global threats to the United States.  “For personal gain, he’s now selling

Last week, Facebook released a new app for the Iphone called Facebook Paper. The app is designed to present Facebook in a configuration optimized for a mobile platform.  The product was designed by Creative Labs, a new part of Facebook

On Monday, the nation’s largest tech companies began releasing data on the NSA’s requests for customer information.  The data shows that the government requested information on thousands of Americans.  Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tumbler were allowed to reveal

At an event in Hot Springs Arkansas last week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the GOP could attract young voters to the party by focusing on issues related to privacy violations of the NSA.  His message to the crowd

Dame Helen Mirren was presented with the Hasty Pudding “Woman of the Year” award at Harvard University.  To show she was a good sport, Mirren “showed off her twerking skills” to the audience.  “I’ve tried in my bedroom in private,

Despite President Obama’s claim that “Al-Qaeda is on the run,” the Director of National Intelligence testified on Wednesday he was unable to say the terror threat “is any less” than it was ten years ago.  James Clapper explained that Al-Qaeda

According to a Gallup poll surveying the U.S. States, Obama’s job approval ratings are the highest in the District of Columbia and Hawaii with 81% and 61% respectively approving of the presidents job performance.  Also earning honorable mention is Maryland, neighbor

A new ABC/WaPo poll released today shows that Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Jeb Bush, the former two term governor of Florida, are the front runners on the GOP side of the presidential ticket. To quote pollster Gary Langer, the GOP

The Lakemaid micro brewery started delivering beer to ice fishers using drones, at least until the FAA coldly shut their operation down.  The FAA is currently reviewing their policies.   According to the beer company’s president, Jack Supple, “They think

During tonight’s State of the Union, President Obama informed the country that it needs to move off permanent “war-footing.” Instead we need to build up our foreign partners but provided no further details about what that might look like.  The

The State of the Union is occasion to make political statements through invited guests almost more so than it is through the speech itself and various responses. This years guest list doesn’t fail to disappoint. Here is a line up

Bloomberg BusinessWeek is reporting that newly minted General Motors CEO Mary Barra, the first woman ever to captain an American automaker, will attend tonight’s speech as a guest of Michelle Obama’s: Mary Barra, who took the reins as General Motors

A North Dakota farmer was sentenced to three years in prison after he was located by a border surveillance drone. Rodney Brossart was sentenced to three years in jail after police were able to apprehend him for failing to return

The RNC has passed a resolution to restrict the National Security Agency’s data-mining dragnet.  During the winter meeting of the RNC last week, the committee approved a measure that would form a special committee to “to investigate, report, and reveal to

United States Investigations Services (USIS) is the private firm that vets individuals who are seeking government employment.  According to court filings, the Justice Department has accused the firm of “bilking millions of dollars through improper background checks.” USIS is the

Pressure sensitive “whiskers” could enhance robots’ mobility according to researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   The futuristic whiskers are comprised of silver nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes and printed on elastic fibers.  Cats’ whiskers are used as

A couple from Mexico was caught trying to enter the United States with 96 cloned credit cars from the Target data breach. Mary Carmen Garcia and Daniel Guardiola Dominguez were stopped as they attempted to cross into the US according

Yesterday on ABC’s “This Week” Rep. Mike McCaul said that Edward Snowden was not acting alone in when he leaked intelligence secrets about NSA surveillance gathering. McCaul is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.  Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas),

In 2009, the Obama Administration and Attorney General Eric Holder cut off $90M in funds that provided free gun locks to people looking to secure their firearms from children in their homes. The program they cut was called Project Child