WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 8, 2013 - Bikers came to Washington, D.C., by the thousands only a few weeks ago to express their patriotism for their country and their frustration at those running it, and only days later truckers in a loosely defined group holding a conversation on Facebook said they would do something similar.

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (PNN) - October 8, 2013 - Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of Amerika’s greatest treasures.

Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (PNN) - October 8, 2013 - Carnegie Mellon University researchers claim they have created a smart phone messaging app with security that not even the National Security Agency can break.

DUBLIN, Ireland (PNN) - October 4, 2013 - Ireland’s voters had a chance on Friday to accomplish what some Amerikan voters, with their government partly shut down, can only dream of: abolishing one house of the nation’s legislature; and the Irish were expected to vote to do so.

DOURADOS, Brazil (PNN) - September 26, 2013 - The Guarani community of Apyka'i together with The Aty Guasu Council of the Kaiowá have retaken traditional lands in the municipality of Dourados, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

By Dave Lindoff

September 29, 2013 - I no longer recognize my country.

Back in 1997, after two years living in China and five more living in Hong Kong, during which time, as a correspondent for Business Week magazine, I slipped in and out of China regularly as a journalist to report on developments there, I got a good dose of life in a totalitarian society. When I alit from the plane in Philadelphia where my family and I were about to start a new chapter of our lives, I remember feeling like a big weight had been lifted off my chest.

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).