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New York Cops Unveil Sci-Fi-Style Iris-Scanning Technology
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Nov. 16) -- In Manhattan, police reports are becoming a little bit more like "Minority Report." The New York City Police Department unveiled iris-scanning technology on Monday designed to prevent criminal suspects from assuming false identities. Authorities decided to start photographing suspects' eyes after two detainees facing serious charges were able to escape custody during arraignment by using the names of suspects facing minor charges, The New York Times reports. Mel Evans, AP New York City police are using iris-scanning machines to determine the identities of criminal suspects. ...
Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For many American children, that's becoming the reality they are born into. Internet security firm AVG recently did a study on the digital information available for the youngest citizens of some of the world's most wired (or, really today, wireless) countries, including the U.S., ...
No Punishment for 'Puppy River Throw' Girl
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- The infamous "Puppy River Throw" girl is getting off scot-free. In what may (hopefully) be the last episode of a bizarre saga, Gawker reports that Bosnian authorities will not charge the girl who, as evidenced by disturbing viral-video footage, hurled multiple puppies into a river. It turns out that the girl is 12 years old and therefore Bosnian authorities deem her too young for punishment. The report comes from German PETA's correspondence with a German newspaper, seen below through Google Translate: The girl was 12 years too young for punishment. Another reason is that an old ...
Meet Benjaman Kyle: The Man With No Identity
By David Lohr - AOL News(Sept. 13) -- Imagine for a moment that from this day forward you will have no memory of who you are, where you're from or the identities of any of your loved ones. It's a scary thing to contemplate, but for one man in Savannah, Ga., that harsh scenario is all too real. Meet Benjaman Kyle, a 60-something man who can remember what he had for dinner last week but has no recollection of his parents or the high school from which he presumably graduated. "It's like having something on the tip of your tongue. You know it is there, but you can't quite remember," Benjaman said in a telephone ...
More Wives Should Dump Their Husbands
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI've been thinking a lot about marriage lately. Or, more precisely: unhappy marriages. And I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time for more women to -- as we say in politics -- "throw the bums out." I got to thinking about this after my colleague, Melinda Henneberger, wrote a post last weekend about one of those marriages about which we know just a bit too much: Silda and Elliot Spitzer's. You may recall Spitzer as the former governor of New York who stepped down when it was revealed that he'd been patronizing a prostitution service. And you will certainly recall his wife, Silda, who stood ...
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