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Web giants get broader surveillance revelations

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 15th

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data. The announcements Friday night

Google launches Internet-beaming balloons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 15th

By NICK PERRY AND MARTHA MENDOZAAssociated Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) - Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into

A look at Google's Internet-beaming balloons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 15th

By The Associated Press Google is experimenting with balloons that beam the Internet from the sky. WHAT? The helium-filled balloons are made from a thin polyethylene film and are 15 meters (49 feet) in diameter when fully inflated. WHERE? They float in the stratosphere about 20 kilometers (12 miles

Web giants get broader surveillance revelations

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 15th

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said Friday night that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data. The announcements

Beyonce, video game company settle NYC lawsuit

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 15th

NEW YORK (AP) - Beyonce has settled a New York City lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her. Court records show the case was closed Friday after the Grammy Award-winning singer and Gate Five LLC agreed to drop it. A lawyer for Gate Five says the

USDA: Modified wheat appears to be isolated

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

By MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which it was found. No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming, and the

Video gamers may have better visual recall

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

FRIDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- In a new finding sure to be shared with some skeptical parents, it seems that the brains of video game enthusiasts make better and faster use of visual input. "Gamers see the world differently," study author Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psychiatry in

UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

By KARL RITTERAssociated Press BONN, Germany (AP) - U.N. climate talks have hit a stumbling block that some delegates say poses a serious challenge to their already slow-moving attempt to craft a global response to climate change. As the latest negotiation session ended Friday in the German city of

Ideas for keeping your data safe from spying

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

By RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed. But given the revelations spilling out into the media recently, there

Tereshkova marks 50 years of her historic flight

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVAssociated Press MOSCOW (AP) - It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago - putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, shouting "Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming!" as she blasted off. President Vladimir Putin