Canadian researchers are developing a tool to detect the amount of spin politicians use in their political campaigning.
According to their site, the tool is being developed to analyse the volume of words in a speech that would indicate that the speaker was insincere […]
A Malaysian Senator has been fined by a Sharia court for divorcing his wife by SMS text message.
In 2001, Kamaruddin Ambok sent his wife a text telling her that it was all over - an action that has cost him a grand total […]
An American online gaming fan committed suicide live on webcam ealier this month.
21 year old “Mitchell S.” supposedly turned on his webcam and swallowed a concoction of pills and anti-freeze after logging onto his favourite site at http://www.metalgearsolid.org
Fellow gamers thought the man was […]
It seems that there is a slight problem with the US government’s plans to create a national standard for driver’s liceneces by 2008.
As part of the federal government’s overall anti-terror legislation, they proposed sweeping amendmants to the ways in which driver’s licence systems are run in each state - the catcher being that the states […]
Getting access to government computers in the UK has been made a whole lot easier this week.
Actually, we’re sure that they are scrambling to close this little gaping flaw in the security of the UK Parliament.
It seems that new MPs have been disallowed by the secuity boffins at the Houses of Parliament from having access […]