Image: Axon, Shutterstock The Police Foundation doesn’t want the police to call drones “drones.” Because of the public’s association with “military-style weapons like the Predator,” the organization’s 311 page report reads, the term “drone” is “a major obstacle to law enforcement’s ability to convince the public” that police drone programs “could actually increase public safety,…

A stone tool uncovered at the Chinese site. Image: Prof. Zhaoyu Zhu Archaeologists working in the Shangchen region of China have uncovered dozens of stone tools, the oldest of which date back 2.1 million years, making them the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside of Africa. Ancient humans, likely a form of Homo…

A pair of unmanned underwater vehicles in a lab at the Naval Undersea War CenterPhoto: AP An electrical engineer secretly uploaded onto his personal Dropbox account thousands of files containing sensitive information about the unmanned underwater vehicles his company was developing for the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research. A Connecticut federal jury on Monday…

Image: Facebook The inclusion and even highlighting of Fox News—a network notorious showcasing hosts and guests who make misleading and sometimes outright false claims, per Politifact—is just the latest result of Facebook’s permanent position between a rock and a hard place when it comes to conservative views. Once word got out from former employees that…

Andrew Wheeler.Photo: Jacquelyn Martin (AP) Andrew Wheeler, former aide to climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staff director, and more recently fossil-fuel lobbyist, is now temporarily in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency following the resignation of scandal-plagued former administrator Scott Pruitt. While Wheeler seems less likely to hang…

Scott Raymond Dozier speaking to public defender Lori Teicher.Photo: Ken Ritter (AP) According to the AP, it could be several months before Dozier’s execution is renewed, making Alvogen the first drug manufacturer to have “successfully sued to halt an execution.” Attorney Thomas Ericsson told the news agency that since Alvogen was pursuing a court challenge…

A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin alongside US Dollars on December 07, 2017 in London, England.Photo: Getty Bitcoin has lost most of its (likely inflated) value in the last few months, but it still has plenty of value for law enforcement agencies looking for financial crimes to punish. The latest cryptocurrency criminal to…