David Derbyshire | Daily Mail.co.uk A ‘gender bending’ chemical in food and drinks containers could be behind rising male infertility, scientists say.Men with high levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in their bodies are more likely to have low sperm counts, according to a study. BPA is widely used to harden plastics and is found in [...]

Clay Dillow | Pop Sci.com Japanese company NEC wowed technophiles and horrified privacy advocates earlier this year with electronic billboards that use facial recognition technology to identify the age and gender of passers-by, tailoring the ads they display to fit the demographic. Now IBM researchers in the UK are taking that notion even further, taking advantage of [...]

Declan McCullugh | CNet.com For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing [...]

Declan McCullagh | C Net.com The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations’ networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement not to disable banks and electrical grids, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency said Thursday. Michael Hayden, who was the principal deputy [...]

Mike Adams | Natural News.com As ridiculous as it seems, retailers across the U.S. are already stocking their stores with Christmas goods. It’s all about the big commercial push, of course, since retailers make about 50 percent of their profits during the Christmas season. Similarly, flu vaccine manufacturers generate huge profits during the Christmas season, [...]