The 'bot -- the Robotex AH, it's called -- went "from idea to product" in six months. It costs a little more than a Prius. "It's two feet tall, travels ten miles an hour, and... it'll blow a ten-inch hole through a steel door with deadly accuracy from 400 meters."

Someday, when the people who freak out and kill people decide to go for the grand finale, they will use something like this and a web interface.

Newbies Build Killer Robot; Fortune Fawns | Danger Room from Wired.com

The New York Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church has an unusual new weapon against child abuse.

Lol! Thats right because catholic priests are dangerous!

An Anti-Abuse Coloring Book | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com

Police in Texas want to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to spot speeders, and now Miami cops are also looking at drones for SWAT Teams

I don't like the idea of a SWAT-Bot.

Miami Police Enlists Drone | Danger Room from Wired.com

Wild gorillas have been seen using "weapons" for the first time, giving a new insight into how early man learned to use sticks and stones for fighting and hunting millions of years ago.

Researchers observed gorillas in the Cross River area of Cameroon throwing sticks, clumps of earth and stones at human "invaders".

It is the first time that the largest of the great apes has been seen to use tools in an aggressive way.
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Planet of the apes is real.

Human links may be seen in gorillas' tools - Telegraph

A reader writes, "Guy working for UK Revenue burns all 25m personal records held by the department onto two CDs. Sends them to the National Audit Office, unregistered. They don't arrive. So he sends off another couple of CDs. They don't arrive either. Then the head of the department resigns just as it's about to be made public. It's the names, addresses, dates of birth and the employment and bank details of 25 million people. Who needs Russian hackers when you've got the UK government?"

Alistair Darling told the House of Commons this afternoon that two CDs bearing highly sensitive information including bank account numbers and National Insurance numbers failed to arrive after they were sent in the ordinary internal mail between government departments, in a catastrophic breach of security guidelines.

The Chancellor admitted that HMRC had made the same mistake on several occasions in the past six months...

Mr Darling's admission that "I regard this as an extremely serious failure," was met with derisive laughter from MPs. He advised every parent who claims Child Benefit to look very closely at their bank statements in the coming weeks for signs of fraud or identity theft.

UK tax-man repeatedly hemorrhages personal financial info of 25 MILLION Brits - Boing Boing

Ok we get it Dr. Trung, you're trying to show off Canada's supposed "first android." But did you really have to go for the jiggly bits to prove your point. If she hadn't taken a swat at your jaw, we might have. Can we get somebody to send one of those robot ethics charters up to Canada, pronto? Thanks. Video assault after the break.

Watch the video... She's paraplegic.. and sort of a prude.

Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot - Engadget

Rattle wrote:

Brick Township does not "feel" safe. I can't think of another place in the US that has such a high ratio of police to people, and I work in downtown Washington, where we bathe in a sea of constant high security.. Brick is scary, because there doesn't appear to be any reason why it's necessary for it to be a police state like environment. It feels like it's unsafe as hell, because there are always cops, everywhere. There is a constant feeling that something should be going really wrong, if for no other reason than to justify why there are so many damn cops.

Exactly. In most places you have to worry about being mugged for the twenty dollar bill in your pocket. In Brick you need to worry about a hundred dollar ticket plus surcharges and insurance points. Safe is relative.

RE: Experts say 'most dangerous city' rankings twist numbers - CNN.com

Story Musgrave (STS-80).

During an earlier interview, Dr. Musgrave stated he attempted to communicate with ET life forms during each of his six missions. He actually asked them to take him with them. Now that's an astronaut with a lot of courage. Dr. Musgrave retired after this flight from NASA. Since then he's been spreading his considered opinion that alien life exists. When Musgrave speaks of this, it's no great leap for one to assume he's admitting knowledge of alien life. As the final slide of a "Grey" ET was shown during a recent astronomy presentation by Dr. Musgrave, he made this surprising comment: "These guys are real... I guarantee it!" Dr. Musgrave does know the truth. This author guarantees it!

Your tax dollars at work.

The Canadian National Newspaper: Famed NASA Astronaut confirms Extraterrestrials are here

Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning "in cave") primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province, November 14, 2007. The school is built in a huge, aircraft hangar-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts.

Cool.

The school is built in a huge, aircraft hangar-sized natural cave

A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat.

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Mr Gaubert said he was told the police believed he looked "Egyptian".

BBC NEWS | UK | England | West Yorkshire | Terror police 'shot' man in coma