by Derek Dowekk It reads like a Hollywood movie or maybe a cable television series. Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins used forged documents that reduced their life sentences to 15 years to fool Florida Department of Law Enforcement prison officials into turning the...
Backing up computer files is a longstanding habit of the computer age (though about to be made obsolete on the user level by cloud computing), but new 3D mapping technology allows us to backup culturally and historically important monuments, ancient ruins, or even the...
by Derek Dowell Star Trek. Star Wars. A variety of comic books. You know you’ve got a popular franchise on your hands when you get your own convention. So far, the AMC zombie apocalypse show, “The Walking Dead” has spawned a podcast, a one-man play…and now its...
by Derek Dowell It’s no secret that the technical side of the rollout of President Obama’s landmark health care legislation has been, to put it kindly, a disaster. In an effort to seize control of the issue, the president plans to address the nation on the topic from...
It was a thrilling Monday morning for gay couples in New Jersey. Across the state, same-sex marriages were officially sanctioned after the State Supreme Court rejected Governor Christie’s administration’s request to delay implementation of the policy. With this...
As Calvin Parker, Jr. will tell anyone who asks, the essential freakiness and subsequent notoriety for serving as witness to one of the most high-profile unidentified flying object experiences in history has never been a walk in the park. Were the grey, crab-clawed...
by Derek Dowell Three months ago, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder gave his blessing to the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history – the city of Detroit. Today, the governor answered questions from creditors at a private deposition. So far, a whole lot of nothing has...
Though both sides are still talking tough in the economic impasse that has resulted in a nine-day-long partial government shutdown, President Barack Obama has plans to hold talks at the White House with Republican lawmakers in the coming days. Such a conversation...
Google has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to release the Chromebook 11, the latest entry in the search giant’s line of low cost, Internet-focused computers. This time around they’ve managed to include several high-end laptop features in the new lightweight...
President Obama’s long and politically combustible search for a successor to Federal Reserve chairman “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke has at long last come to an end and, for the first time ever, we have a lady-in-waiting for the position. Janet Yellen, the Federal...
