Digital News Report

Digital News Report – On January 18th, 2012, while several major website on the Internet went on strike, the Mayor of San Francisco, Edwin M. Lee, released a statement about how the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) are overkill and threaten to undermine innovation and the economy.
The [...]

Digital News Report – The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft of data that was collected from well water in Pavillion, Wyoming. The EPA was tasked with investigating the safety of the drinking water after there were complaints by local residents. The investigation was to determine if fracturing for natural gas [...]

Digital News Report – Demi Moore was hospitalized for what her reps called exhaustion, however, the 911 emergency dispatcher recordings were released today and they suggest something more might have been going on.
The recording was released with some parts being withheld by officials regarding the actual substances she was taking. The friend that called [...]

Digital News Report – Satellite communications and navigation equipment could be disrupted today, warned the United States Space Weather Prediction Center especially around the Polar regions. The Solar Radiation Storms in the past 24 hours and currently is at a S3 warning level.
The S3 warning includes a radiation hazard for astronauts and people in [...]

Digital News Report – IBM ranked number one for 6,180 US patents the company earned in 2011. Following behind in patents filed in 2011, was Samsung with 4,894 inventions registered. After that, the patent filings for 2011 dropped down to 2,821 patents registered by Canon.
IBM attributes their voluminous patent filings to over [...]

Digital News Report – A new study concluded that eating foods fried in olive oil did not have a link to heart disease. The study was led by Professor Pilar Guallar-Castillón from Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and the results were published online at bmj.com.
In Spain, olive and sunflower oil is typically used for [...]