July 30, 2013 - I was downtown last Thursday and ended up with an hour to kill before my train home, so I went down the station’s back stairs and around the corner to Jay’s Bar. It was almost six o’clock, so the crowd was a mix of corporate suits buying expensive vodka, tradesmen enjoying decent beer, and jobless neighborhood guys drinking cheap beer. I ordered something inoffensive and watched to see if any of my old cypherpunk pals would show up.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 15, 2013 - Pediatricians may soon get help monitoring babies' health with a high-tech diaper.

A new startup, called Smart Diapers, uses a QR code on a baby's diaper and parents' smart phones to record health data that would normally be thrown in the trash.

LONDON, England (PNN) - July 17, 2013 - Scientists have developed an "intelligent knife" that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not.

In the first study to test the invention in the operating theater, the "iKnife" diagnosed tissue samples from 91 patients with 100% accuracy, instantly providing information that normally takes up to half an hour to reveal using laboratory tests.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - June 27, 2013 - Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled. Their theories don’t predict anything like it.

ALBANY, New York (PNN) - June 26, 2013 - Ray guns, death rays, freeze rays - these make-believe weapons have long been staples of the wackier side of science fiction.

That is, until two men from upstate New York allegedly decided to make one for real.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (PNN) - June 18, 2013 - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption.

BROOKLYN, New York - June 4, 2013 - A 9-year-old boy fought back against two robbers who broke into his family's home in Brooklyn Monday, slamming a bedroom door against one suspect's arm so hard that the loaded gun he was holding fell to the floor.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 3, 2013 - Big Brother is hoping to eliminate anonymous digital communication, but a new messaging protocol may provide privacy advocates a way around their snooping government no matter where they live.

June 2, 2013 - From Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)by H. Michael Sweeney. These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to comments on a blog.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (PNN) - May 23, 2013 - Rice flour, rice wine and rice milk are all common interpretations of the staple grain, but a Vietnamese chemist has developed a novel use for rice plant that won't fill bellies, but just might save lives.