Chinese Billionaire to Buy Failing U.S. Car Battery Maker
A financially strapped Massachusetts-based firm that manufactures batteries for electric cars, which reaped some $240 million in federal stimulus money, is being rescued...
Science & Technology
DARPA Tests Drones That Refuel While Airborne
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center reported on October 8 that they are moving...
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3-D Printing Technology Soon to Allow Printing Guns at Home
3-D printing technology is developing so fast that individuals will soon be able to download free software from the internet and print their...
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Chinese Telecom Threat Used to Push Cybersecurity Bill
A congressional investigation highlighting national security threats posed by two Communist China-based telecommunications equipment companies, Huawei and ZTE, is being seized upon by...
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SpaceX Capsule Set to Dock With Space Station
A private U.S. company — SpaceX — has sent the first of 12 resupply missions to the International Space Station. ...
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California Gas Prices Reach All-Time High of $4.67 Per Gallon
Gasoline prices in California have escalated to record highs, spiking 50 cents a gallon in a week and prompting Governor Jerry Brown to...
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New Strands of the Global Web of Surveillance
Can you imagine a world where the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the FBI, Interpol, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the...
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Ignorance Deadlier Than Radiation in Japan
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 continue to claim lives more than a year and a half later, not...
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Sketches of Secret Gov’t Surveillance Technology Discovered
In July The New American reported an announcement posted on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) website seeking “trailblazers” willing to “take...
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TrapWire Training Courses Reveal Possible Purpose for its Creation
TrapWire is a massive and technologically advanced surveillance system that has the capacity to keep nearly the entire U.S. population under the watchful...
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FCC Chairman Defends “Net Neutrality” Regulations
Nullifying his former position that Internet providers should have the freedom to pursue new and innovative business models, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman...
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State-Owned Chinese Oil Giant to Purchase Canadian Oil Company
Shareholders of Canadian oil firm Nexen voted Thursday to favor a $15.1-billion takeover that would place the company into the hands of the...
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Federal Websites Reveal Uncomfortable Corporate Connections with TrapWire
Given the potential flood of legal challenges to its constitutionality, the corporation believed to be behind TrapWire is heading for higher ground, denying...
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Harry Reid Bolsters Son’s Interests in Chinese Solar Plant Deal
Rory Reid, the eldest son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), is the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to...
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Pointing Out the Peaks of the Massive Surveillance Iceberg
Every time a shutter blinks in one of the millions of cameras mounted on stoplights or building corners, the faces of those within...
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