25th anniversary sparks fresh look at Jacob Wetterling mystery

The meeting took place in the summer of 2014 in the St. Cloud office of the Stearns County sheriff. All of the key players were there: from the FBI and the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to Stearns County itself as lead agency. The subject — Jacob Wetterling. The mission — to take another hard […]

Richard Dawkins sparks backlash after questioning Ahmed Mohamed’s ‘motives’

Evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins questions whether Ahmed Mohamed really invented an alarm clock Last week, Ahmed Mohammed, a 14-year-old Muslim teen made it to the headlines for bringing his homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb by the school authorities. He was promptly arrested by the Texas police and later released without […]

SXSW panel sparks over Big Data privacy concerns even without Google, Facebook

A Sunday afternoon panel designed to address head-on privacy concerns stemming from so-called “big data” collection sparked passions even though both Facebook and Google, whose privacy practices draw most consternation from critics, declined to participate, leaving no one to take the side of industry. Moderator Molly Wood, the executive director of CBS Interactive, said Facebook […]

‘Ugly Meter’ App Sparks Ire

A popular app in iTunes called “Ugly Meter” has parents and anti-bullying organizations concerned. “Ugly Meter” has reached the 3 million downloads mark in the iTunes app store. View full post on cyberbully – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

Restaurant fight video sparks ‘brutality’ claim

By PoliceOne Staff LITTLE ROCK — A man and his attorney are using a YouTube video to claim that a uniformed officer made him the victim of police brutality. Chris Erwin, 40 — whose attorney Keith Hall says that video shows an officer "dole out his blows into Chris’s face" — was asked to leave […]