ROBERT BECKHUSEN | Wired Danger Room The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses crowdsourcing to improve how machines analyze our speech. Even more radical: Darpa wants to make systems so accurate, you’ll be able to easily...

DrugWarChronicle The Norwegian government said Friday it wants to decriminalize the smoking of heroin as a harm reduction measure,Agence-France Presse reported. Smoking heroin is less dangerous than injecting it, and the move could reduce the number of overdoses,...

JG Vibes/theintelhub.com Last week we reported that Dennis Rodman hosted a basketball camp in North Korea with members of the Harlem Globetrotters, and interestingly enough it seems that there was actually some diplomatic value to his visit....

We’re not sure anymore whether Rihanna is doing a publicity tour for her album or her relationship with Chris Brown. Her latest meet with the press offers up yet another set of spectacular photographs along with some...

ABC 31 Click here to view the embedded video. Guntersville (Ala.) Mayor Leigh Dollar is working with city officials to pass an ordinance that would give police the power to “disarm individuals” during a disaster, a chilling...

Canadian energy giant Encana is trying to get an embarrassing audio clip removed from the Internet, according to The Globe And Mail. During a February 14 earnings call, Canaccord Genuity analyst Phil Skolnick asked whether new investment guidelines...

Mountain Dew Wants You to Start Your Day With a Giant Can of Soda Is there a market for a “breakfast drink” that tastes like soda, looks like an energy drink, and is infused with just enough...

Germany wants to end its virtual moratorium on fracking, Der Spiegel reports. “Parliamentarians from Angela Merkel’s governing center-right coalition of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union, and the pro-business Free...

In common with many other websites on the Internet, Google has an obligation to remove infringing content upon receiving a valid DMCA request from copyright holders. Starting a few months ago copyright holders drastically increased the number...

Sarah Dee/theintelhub.com This recent MSN News article reports that the Secret Service, the security team that provides protection for all U.S. Presidents, past and present, has been in the market for gun-detecting technology. This technology would be able to...