A genetically engineered salmon, background, outweighs an Atlantic salmon of the same age. The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the altered fish for U.S. consumers to eat. (Reuters)

August 2, 2011 |  6:45 pm

Google may not have paid a lot of attention to patents for years. But the Internet search giant is certainly paying attention now.

Google has hired one of the Federal Trade Commission's top patent lawyers, the…

The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

By JOAN LOWY

Associated Press

WASHINGTON —

The government is likely to…

 * Vermont Yankee could close by March 2012

 * Entergy fighting for reactor survival

 NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Vermont health…

1) I am new to social communicating. So what is so obvious to many is not so simple for me.

2) My experience in this movement was awakened in me, of the truth, around July 20, 2011.

3) That awakening told me we were at war with our existing government

August 2, 2011

The days of having to cart your cocktail to the ladies room may be over: two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.

Professor Fernando Patolsky and Doctor Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University's school of chemistry say the sensor can tell you in real time whether your…

August 2, 2011 by Deborah Braconnier

According to a new study which will be presented August 4 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, technology has made it possible to identify and gain the personal information of strangers by using facial recognition and social media profiles like Facebook.

The study, led by Alessandro Acquisti from Carnegie Mellon…

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Survivors and relatives of those killed in the 7 July bombings in 2005 have dropped…

Top prosecutors in Mexico resign en masse

Senior federal prosecutors in 21 of the country's 31 states and federal district step down, and it's not clear if they were forced out or quit in rebellion.

Mexico's Atty. Gen. Marisela Morales addresses a news conference in June. (Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters)…

Anders Behring Breivik used eBay traders across the world including the UK. Photo: JEFF GILBERT

For those of you who understand false-flags, media blackouts and absurd conclusions force-fed by TV News, you may want to sit up and pay attention.  Our government (in the US) is holding hearings on fighting cybercrime.  Who knows what the intent is here, but it will probably mingled in between many facts and serious points of discussion on all parties.  It's the "not so true" stuff that concerns me.…

UPDATE:  We're anticipating that a version of PROTECT IP will be introduced in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, so we've pulled together this video to remind the world about what makes it so awful.  Please check it out and pass it on:

We need to rally more opposition to this bill -- please use the form…