A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania could face more than 10 years in prison after being convicted in what prosecutors called a “kids for cash” scheme. Prosecutors say former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella used children as pawns, locking them up unjustly in a plot to get rich. C... Read more...
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22/02/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
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This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes of the government. As many news outlets have reported, the US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for records from Twitter ... Read more...
CNN managed to upset a lot of people Friday morning when it posted an article on its website that called the upcoming NBA All-Star Game Black Thanksgiving. CNN posted the article by longtime NBA analyst David Aldridge, who called All Star Weekend a national holiday for African Americans and quote... Read more...
General Electric’s $2.8bn (£1.74bn) acquisition of Aberdeen-based John Wood Group’s well support division has secured one of the British company’s crown jewels: its electric submersible pumps, which are in ever greater demand for squeezing more oil out of ageing fields. The deal ... Read more...
Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre... Read more...