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Find me all the red balloons; MIT wins DARPA challenge

Monday, December 7, 2009 A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the challenge to find ten 8-foot (2.4 metre) weather balloons spread across the continental United States, just nine hours after the event’s start. In a test of the nation’s social networking skills, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyRead More

Find me all the red balloons; MIT wins DARPA challenge

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U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has threatened on Friday to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breachedRead More

U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images

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HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer

Sunday, May 18, 2008 An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that noRead More

HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer

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California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft

Saturday, October 22, 2016 The California Department of Justice on Wednesday released the warrant and affidavit of a criminal investigation of the Wells Fargo bank. The State of California served the warrant on October 5 to search the San Francisco headquarters of Wells Fargo for felonious activities related to identity theft. The warrant said propertyRead More

California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft

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U.S. appeals court upholds Honolulu aerial ad ban

Thursday, May 25, 2006 The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that Honolulu‘s ban on aerial advertising is constitutional and rejected the arguments of a pro-life/anti-abortion group that contended that the ban restricts free speech. In a unanimous ruling, the court ruled that the city’s ban on aerial advertising is not pre-emptedRead More

U.S. appeals court upholds Honolulu aerial ad ban

A Fence Company In St Paul Helps Property Owners Keep Animals Out Of Gardens

Here’s An Opinion On: Ems byadmin A Fence Company in St Paul can help property owners who need to secure their vegetable gardens against intruders. Those intruders aren’t of the human variety, but rather critters like squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, raccoons, and even deer. The neighbor’s dog might even have an ongoing craving for tomatoes. AllRead More A Fence Company In St Paul Helps Property Owners Keep Animals Out Of Gardens

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Moon water possibly originated from comets, data shows

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Data from recent detailed analyses of samples collected on NASA Apollo moon missions, released Sunday, show that Lunar water may originate from comets that collided with the moon early in its geologic history. A team of astrophysicists led by James Greenwood of Wesleyan University in Connecticut analyzed samples collected on theRead More

Moon water possibly originated from comets, data shows