AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (PNN) - September 26, 2013 - Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the National Security Agency era, you go outdoors. Phones, the Internet, email and your office can all be compromised with ease. But soon even that whispered conversation in the park may no longer be safe from prying ears.

BERLIN, Germany (PNN) - September 14, 2013 - A new gadget built by Diehl Defense, much like a portable Electro-Magnetic Pulse ray gun, can disable a vehicles electronic circuitry rendering it useless in battlefield or pursuit conditions.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - September 12, 2013 - NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles from our sun.

CUPERTINO, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 12, 2013 - There’s a lot of talk around biometric authentication since Apple introduced its newest iPhone, which will let users unlock their device with a fingerprint. Given Apple’s industry-leading position, it’s probably not a far stretch to expect this kind of authentication to take off. Some even argue that Apple’s move is a death knell for authenticators based on what a user knows (like passwords and PIN numbers).

By Don Boys, Ph.D.

It is going to get bad when public officials demand that religious groups obey oppressive federal laws or go out of business. It may be the issue of providing health care for church workers; payment of federal taxes; zoning; licensing; accreditation; same-sex marriage; ordaining women; hiring homosexuals; ad infinitum.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 22, 2013 - It is generally the case that once a person dies, there is only about a three-to-five minute window of potential resuscitation time before he or she becomes irreversibly dead, depending on the cause of death. But an Amerikan clinical care physician claims to have come up with a new way to revive corpses several hours after being dead, a process that with future advancements could eventually make it possible to revive the deceased up to 24 hours after death, he says.

ATHENS, Greece (PNN) - August 19, 2013 - In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece, has created its own private Internet.

Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30 times faster than it does on the telecom-provided Internet.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (PNN) - August 12, 2013 - Kim Dotcom, of Megaupload scandal fame, is building an encrypted email system that runs on cutting-edge encryption technology.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 12, 2013 - Fascist Police States of Amerika District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled on Monday that the New York City terrorist pig thug cop department has violated the Constitution in how it implements a stop-and-frisk policy that targets certain groups of citizens.

KEENE, New Hampshire (PNN) - July 30, 2013 - A group of citizens in Keene, New Hampshire, thought the city was gaining a bad reputation for its predatory parking meter enforcement and decided to do something about it. They organized an effort to regularly feed coins into the meters so that other citizens and visitors could avoid receiving expensive tickets slapped on their windshields. Instead, they received a card telling them that Robin Hood and the Merry Men have "saved you from the king's tariff". As a reward for their generosity, idiot thug officials of the city has filed a ridiculous lawsuit against the Robin Hooders for civil conspiracy to interfere with a contract. A hearing on the case is scheduled for August 12.