Mission Control, Built for Cities

I.B.M. Takes ‘Smarter Cities’ Concept to Rio de Janeiro

NOT far from Copacabana Beach here is a control room that looks straight out of NASA.

City employees in white jumpsuits work quietly in front of a giant wall of screens — a sort of virtual Rio, rendered in real time.…

A mute button for people? 'Speech jamming gun' that stops people talking by freezing the brain

• The gadget fires a speaker's words back to them causing them to stutter and then stop talking

• 'Delayed Auditory Feedback' works because the brain does not like hearing the echo of the human voice…

Police could call in outside firms to investigate crimes in dramatic step towards privatisation

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:06 PM on 3rd March 2012

Private firms could take over police duties for investigating crimes, patrolling…

ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for 'illegal downloads'

Published: 03 March, 2012, 14:24

UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for “illegal downloading” after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill.

It is the first time such a move has been made…

Tracking the trackers: Mozilla's anti-Big Brother add-on

Published: 03 March, 2012, 14:31

The owner of Firefox, the world’s second most popular browser, is backing an add-on which would allow users to monitor in real-time how their actions are tracked and shared by various websites as they surf the net.

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Nicolas Scaredkozy! Footage shows moment French President forced to hide in bar as protesters threatened to beat him up

By Peter Allen

Last updated at 3:03 AM on 3rd March 2012

Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to hide in a bar after a mob of protesters…

Army accused of covering up almost 150 airstrikes on Taliban by unmanned drones

By Ian Drury

Last updated at 7:55 PM on 2nd March 2012

Britain was accused tonight of covering up nearly 60 per cent of airstrikes by controversial drones in…

Spanish village leases land to grow marijuana because of high unemployment

• Controversial decision motivated by 20 per cent unemployment

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 11:36 PM on 1st March…

Secret EU deal forces Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers despite soaring unemployment

• Britain must take more Indian workers than any other nation - and TWICE as many as France
• UK must take 30% of the workers despite having only 12% of the population

By…

Ron Paul beats Obama in polls

Published: 01 March, 2012, 01:01

Texas Congressman Ron Paul would win a presidential race against incumbent Barack Obama, according to a tracking poll released Monday by Rasmussen Reports.

According to polling figures published Monday by Rasmussen, a hypothetical two-person contest between President Obama and Republican Party hopeful Ron Paul would…

Teenage paedophile who groomed up to 139 girls as young as 11 on Facebook has sentence REDUCED by top judges

By Luke Salkeld and Richard Hartley-parkinson

Last updated at 2:19…

Who wants to live forever? Russian project aims to transplant a human brain into a 'Davros'-style robot body within 10 years

• Entrepreneur claims to have 100 scientists working on project
• Aims to 'transplant' human mind into robot body in 10 years
• Claims 'next stage' of science is to create a 'new human…

Visitors told to only SMELL the healing water of Harrogate after it is declared off-limits by EU rules which brand it a health risk

By Chris Brooke

Last updated at 12:29 AM on 1st March 2012

Hundreds of thousands have drunk from Harrogate’s ‘healing’…

Missiles fired by the mind are closer than we think: Ethics council warn of 'Star Wars' future for human race

By Fiona Macrae

Last updated at 12:44 AM on 1st March 2012

Thinking caps that enhance intelligence and mind-controlled missiles could be a major part…

Doctors 'should have the right to kill unwanted or disabled babies at birth as they are not a real person' claims Oxford academic

By Fiona Macrae

Last updated at 11:12 PM on 29th February 2012

Doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers,…

Possible Tokyo Evacuation Was Kept Secret in Nuclear Crisis

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 25, 2012

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government’s worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including residents of Tokyo, might be forced to leave their homes, according to a report. Fearing widespread panic, officials kept…

800 EU banks get 529.5 bln euros in ECB emergency loans

Published: 29 February, 2012, 14:46

European Banks have sucked up €529.5bn in cheap money from the ECB. It’s the second auction by the European Central Bank in its Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO).

­The money will help improve liquidity in the market.  Stock markets have reacted positively. Analysts also expect that over €100 billion of the new LTRO…

Cannabis farm in bunker below farmer's field discovered by police with thermal imaging camera

• Underground cannabis haul worth £130,000
• Manchester police find another factory hidden behind mirror in a cellar

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 9:30 AM on 29th February 2012

A…

Police arrest 25 Anonymous hackers across the globe

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 6:49 AM on 29th February 2012

Twenty five suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America, Interpol have announced.

The international police…

Remains of some 9/11 victims were given to a private contractor for disposal and sent to a landfill

• Spokesman admits 'it shouldn't have happened'

By Emine Sinmaz

Last updated at 9:29 AM on 29th February 2012

Partial and incinerated remains of some September 11 victims that could not be…