Inside China's Labor (Gadget) Factories

The pressure for Chinese workers to succeed can be overwhelming. A few days ago a worker jumped to his death after a Apple prototyple that he was in charge of turned up missing.  See the attached hyperlinks for photos of a Foxconn factory. "A Foxconn executive in Taipei...

Network Solutions had information from 575,000 credit card stolen

During routine maintenance of a secure credit card payment servers, malicious code was discovered. It appears that transactions between March 12 to June 8th, credit card number, address and name were...

EPA releases list of high-risk coal ash sites

The EPA published a list of 44 coal surry sites. The reason they are disclosing this information now is due to the high risk to humans. It was delaying direct release of the information because the Army Corp of...

Lance Armstrong cleared to ride in the Tour de France by AFLD

Lance Armstrong has been cleared to ride in the Tour de France after his drug tests came back negative for the 24th time in the last 6 months.  The AFLD should have had a witness there instead of the lone drug tester. Watch the video for Lance Armstrongs version of what...

Reversing Multiple Sclerosis with fat stem cells

Scientists have seen promise with a new fat derived stem cell for the treatment of multiple Scerlosis.  Three patients were injected and all three showed dramatic improvement, including; session of seizures, walking, and cycling after treatment. This science is still in...

Bonuses for "Vital" Workers, others laid off at Chicago Tribune

Looks like the same song and dance in the coorporate world. Lay off the workers and then give bonuses to "vital" employees on the same day of the lay off. How is this not illegal? ""On the same day the Chicago Tribune cut 53 jobs from its newsroom, its parent Tribune Co....

1999 recording of Susan Boyle - Cry Me A River (audio) surfaces

Photo from Susan Boyle Fansite Another amazing performance by Susan Boyle was just found on a charity CD. "A long lost recording of Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle singing Cry Me A River has been unearthed....

Laying off grandma, after 23 years of dedication at Spansion

A short story of how a grandmother who was dedicated to a Silcon Valley company, Spansion, gets laid off after 23 years. The new CEO, John Kispert, talks of making tough decisions to bring costs "in line" with...

19,000 Brit's have credit card info posted on Google

Google crawl cached 19,000 UK credit card details before a Vientamese website was shut down. The problem, anyone could look up the info since it was on an unsecured server. " "The credit card details of up to...

Meet Lauren, Microsofts new weapon against Apple.

It looks like Microsoft may be onto Apple's achilles heel.  Where is it? Cost. With the economy so bad, people are starting to weigh cost to performance to coolness.  Microsoft has a new campain, that...

Memo says Conficker worm virus infects Parliament

The IT department of the House of Commons is reporting their network has been infected by the Conficker worm. They are attempting to clean up the virus, all mass storage devices (USB and MP3 players) are being...

Study shows circumcision reduces infection of HPV, Herpes and HIV

New data from an African trial is showing reduced contraction rates for both HPV and herpes. This same study showed the reduction of HIV transmission by 50%.  Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not endorse neonatal circumcision. As a result of this new...

Subway Hero

A great story of someone doing the right thing. An elderly man, Theodore Larson, of the Bronx fell onto the subway tracks in NYC. An actor, Chad Lindsey, jumped on the tracked and pulled the unconscious Larson off the tracks and back on the platform before the train came 15...

1 in 50 American children homeless

These short articles highlight the number of children in America that are homeless. For such a wealthy nation the US should do better. " Report: 1 in 50 American children homeless Homeless children have poor health, emotional problems and low graduation rates, the study...

Obama to reverse embryonic stem cell research policy

On Monday President will sign an executive order to begin funding embryonic stem cell. We will begin a new phase in the research of disease. Maybe now we can start curing diseases instead of just treating them with...

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