Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with technology www.salem-news.com 2013 When options for healthcare are denied, and scientific advances thwarted, the results are staggering and tragic. Medical care is no option for so many people in this nation where some of the most powerful voices hold only disdain for the poor. Americans are a proud lot, so why do they harm each other so intensely? Luke Easter's poem below goes right to the heart of the matter. http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/genetics-play-god-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/genetics-play-god-le.php Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:39:00 PDT Recent news about cell phone giant Verizon is a bit disconcerting. Every phone record of every Verizon customer is now an open book to our government. Can we not call mom without it being the government's business? Is there no such thing as "personal" anymore? Alarmingly the answer is no. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072013/privacy-threat-gm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072013/privacy-threat-gm.php Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:32:00 PDT My son Christian who is 13, was shown a video in school today, that seemingly redefines the future. It is called 3-d printing. Machines now have the ability to literally "print" a replica of any item that can be scanned. Confused yet? It is perfectly OK, this is something that most of us could not have predicted. It isn't exactly brand new. As you will note by the date on the YouTube video, this technology has been around in its usable form for a couple of years. http://salem-news.com/articles/june052013/3d-printer-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june052013/3d-printer-tk.php Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:44:00 PDT Sivalingam Sivananthan, professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named a White House Champion of Change. He was presented with the honor at a ceremony this morning at the White House. The honor recognizes immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs—”the best and brightest from around the world who are helping create American jobs, grow the economy and make our nation competitive in the world,” the White House said in a press release. http://salem-news.com/articles/june022013/sivalingam-sivananthan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june022013/sivalingam-sivananthan.php Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:20:00 PDT Remember waiting for that day and time when your favorite show was coming on? People said things like "Can't wait till Thursday night at 7:30 on channel 5." I remember getting sent home from a friend's house because the Dick Van Dyke show was about to come on (I was five). http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/roku-device-sh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/roku-device-sh.php Thu, 09 May 2013 22:14:00 PDT In a breathtaking display of government overreach, the IRS has claimed the right to read people’s emails internet without a warrant. According to documents obtained by the ACLU through the Freedom of Information Act, the IRS expressed its belief that the Fourth amendment does not apply to the agency... http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/irs-email.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/irs-email.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:37:00 PDT In 1972, a then-eighteen-year-old Louis Taylor was convicted of killing 29 people in a horrific fire at Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, AZ that occurred two years prior. In December 1970, a then-16-year-old Taylor was at the hotel participating in the Christmas festivities and attempting to persuade hotel guests to buy him a drink. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/wrongful-conviction.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/wrongful-conviction.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:09:00 PDT Millions are seeing the new Google scent search option, and grossing out over all kinds of unexpected surprises. But hey, whoever thought we could search by odor? It is the latest brainchild of the company that delivers billions of pages of information and knowledge all over the world each day. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/google-smell-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/google-smell-tk.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:15:00 PDT The term "disconnect" does not seem to be in the vocabulary of those who author contracts for the cellphone firms that pretty much control the communications channels of America. That lack of capacity to terminate a 2-year ironclad contract for a disabled consumer is nothing short of a travesty. Consumers are given two choices: either stay trapped in that contract or else die off. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/senior-phones-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/senior-phones-blc.php Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:59:00 PDT The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) "seeks to support the wide adoption of Web technologies in digital publishing contexts. . . to reinforce cooperation around well defined technical issues." In this regard, the W3C conducts workshops around a number of technical issues. A workshop will be held in Berlin on March 11 and 12 to discuss how Do-­Not-­Track (DNT) mechanisms should work. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/do-not-track-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/do-not-track-rs.php Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:07:00 PDT An infant with H.I.V. infection has successfully been cured according to an article today in the New York Times. The news was reported Sunday as a "startling breakthrough" expected to bring a reduction to the number of children afflicted with H.I.V. whih has the potential to cause AIDS. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042013/hiv-cure-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042013/hiv-cure-tk.php Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:50:00 PST February 28, 2013--Washington Sheriff's Detectives arrested a man and charged him with the 1982 homicide of Lori Billingsley who was 17-years old. Washington County Sheriff's Detectives arrested 49-year old Kenneth Lee Hicks of Saint Helens. He was charged with the 1982 murder of Lori Billingsley. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282013/cold-case.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282013/cold-case.php Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:14:00 PST A carcinogen was found to be seeping up from contaminated soil into buildings at Google's building in Mountain View. http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/google-tce.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/google-tce.php Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:06:00 PST You never know when it might happen. Maybe you're in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe you just made a bad decision. Suddenly those red and blue lights are flashing behind you and you're off to jail. Who will you call? When will they pick you up? How long will you be stuck there? With Off to Jail App you're covered! http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/jail-angels.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/jail-angels.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:43:00 PST Gee, what took them so long? Mainstream Media (MM) are now openly admitting that investigative journalism, theirs in particular, whether in print or on the web, has been dwindling for quite some time. Unlike the first stages of an intervention, getting someone beyond denial and to admit they have a problem, MM have totally capitulated and abandoned altogether the turf of engagement that formerly gave unique insights http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/media-character-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192013/media-character-rb.php Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:45:00 PST I am writing here to come out of the closet as a paid shill. For a little over six months, I was paid to spread disinformation and argue political points on the Internet. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/internet-shill.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/internet-shill.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:19:00 PST The nation's attention of late has focused on a nuclear bomb or an intense solar storm as the source of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, assault on the nation's vulnerable electrical grid system that could fry our electronics and wreak havoc on critical infrastructures. Estimates are that tens of millions of fatalities could occur in the aftermath of such an event as food, fuel and power supplies evaporate and the nation is transported instantly back to the 18th-century lifestyle without a power grid or anything else electronic. http://salem-news.com/articles/december192012/ray-guns-fmm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december192012/ray-guns-fmm.php Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:25:00 PST A Salem Systems Administrator for Northwest Human Resources, Chris Gahlsdorf, has been selected in a national competition by Eaton Corporation as the most prolific IT professional in the nation. http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/it-award.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/it-award.php Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:10:00 PST Another war crime flying below the radar... the use of plastic shards intentionally placed in rockets that leave behind undetectable shrapnel in humans. That puzzled doctors because they amputate human limbs by heat, and the massive killings of Palestinian farm animals and wildlife through the use of Israeli-manufactured tablets deposited on Palestinian land. http://salem-news.com/articles/november192012/plastic-shrapnel.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november192012/plastic-shrapnel.php Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:35:00 PST Anonymous hackers compromised over twenty million user accounts world-wide this year to promote Operation Jubilee. http://salem-news.com/articles/october262012/anonymous-twenty-mil.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october262012/anonymous-twenty-mil.php Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:30:00 PDT Streamcourse.com provides immediate high-definition streaming video of each hole on the course. http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/stream-course-live.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/stream-course-live.php Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:20:00 PDT Flip-flop is a term applied to describe what politicians do when they change their minds about a political issue. Rarely do academics flip-flop about the issues they teach or the material they use. I'm an academic about to do just that. http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/digital-books-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september022012/digital-books-pb.php Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:43:00 PDT Verizon Wireless and the nation’s largest cable companies including Comcast and Time Warner have inked a deal to come together and sell each other’s products and services. If the deal between Verizon Wireless and large cable companies goes through, it will end up costing much more than the price of your cable bill. http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/fcc-monopoly.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/fcc-monopoly.php Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:16:00 PDT The Chairman of the Board of Directors of TAALEM and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU), HRH Prince Turki Bin Mohammed Bin Fahd chaired the 5th TAALEM Board of Directors Meeting in the university campus. Several issues came under discussion in this second session meeting. http://salem-news.com/articles/august062012/talem-board.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august062012/talem-board.php Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:29:00 PDT In a remarkable interfaith gesture, Jews backing upset Hindus have urged AT&T and Intel to withdraw sponsorship of internationally renowned 4-day gaming festival “QuakeCon 2012”, starting at Dallas (USA) on August two, for allowing a video game, which Hindus say trivializes their highly revered deities. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed and Rabbi ElizaBeth W. Beyer say prestigious companies like AT&T and Intel should stay away from such events which hurt the feelings of a section of the populace. http://salem-news.com/articles/august012012/hindu-jewish-support.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august012012/hindu-jewish-support.php Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:28:00 PDT It was unthinkable to see TV commercials promoting videogames, until now. http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/video-game-impact-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/video-game-impact-cf.php Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:44:00 PDT The image of Hindu goddess Kali, to which Hindus objected saying that it gave the appearance of a porn-star, seems to have been removed from the home page of official website of online action video game SMITE. A look at the website today revealed that Kali’s image has been replaced by a dragon like character. http://salem-news.com/articles/july262012/kali-removed.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july262012/kali-removed.php Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:08:00 PDT In a July 21, 2012 Nova program titled “What Is Space”, physicist Alex Filippenko, U.C. Berkeley said: “What is space. We still don’t really know.” And, physicist S. James Gates, Jr, U. of Maryland, said: “It is one of the deepest mysteries in physics.” http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/space-fabric-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/space-fabric-ec.php Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:31:00 PDT The International Communication for Children Festival 'The Pacifier' was born to channel communication that targets children and improve the quality of the information that is transmitted. It awards the best works of communication for children. http://salem-news.com/articles/july232012/social-networks-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july232012/social-networks-cf.php Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:50:00 PDT US based Journal of Technology and Science/VerticalNews lauded scientific research at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. http://salem-news.com/articles/july222012/pmu-honored.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july222012/pmu-honored.php Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:09:00 PDT