Apple recently denied allegations from the United States Justice Department that suggested it was the ringleader in a conspiracy to fix eBook prices. The trial isn’t set to start until next month, but AllThingsD posted a now-public document the DoJ plans to use as evidence when making its case. Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
NYPD whistle-blowers say they’re harassed for exposing stop-and-frisk wrongs; two testify at trial. Original post on newsday.com Comments on reddit.com
Last week Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was charged with hacking into companies and a bank. While it’s no surprise that the news traveled quickly through the media, one might have expected that Gottfrid himself would be one of the first to hear the news. But Gottfrid’s mother Kristina informs TorrentFreak that her son learned of the charges by watching TV news in his cell. Even today he still hasn’t seen a copy of the lawsuit. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
New invention could get life-saving vaccines to children around the world immeasurably cheaper, faster and without using needles. Original post on brisbanetimes.com.au Comments on reddit.com
Researchers have developed biomimetic nanosponges that could prove an effective way of dealing with antibiotic-resistant infections. Each nanosponge is a tiny polymer-based particle measuring 85nm… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
No charge. No trial. And I’m being force-fed while bound to a chair. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Exxon Mobil Corp. will appeal a $236 million New Hampshire verdict in a case over the use of the gasoline additive MTBE, after having gotten a much larger award in a similar dispute thrown out by a court in Maryland. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
He allegedly charged up to £27,000 for the fake devices, which he flogged to governments, police and military services Original post on mirror.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Transmission electron micrograph of herpes simplex virus (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A genetically modified version of herpes simplex virus type 1, the same virus that causes cold sores, shrank tumors of the deadly skin cancer melanoma in a clinical trial, according to Amgen, which is developing the experimental cancer treatment. Patients in the [...] Original post on forbes.com Comments on reddit.com
Two players on the Steubenville High School football team were found guilty yesterday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, a verdict that some hope will start healing a Rust Belt town that has been ripped apart by accusations of a cover-up to protect its athletes. Original post on patch.com Comments on reddit.com
Two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl have been found delinquent by a judge – the juvenile court equivalent of guilty. Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge overturns an Arizona woman’s murder verdict and death sentence after noting a police detective’s history of Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Industry-funded trials are too common, can’t be trusted — and bring pills to market that likely don’t work Original post on salon.com Comments on reddit.com
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
Meet the prominent legislators who think it’s okay to throw Americans in jail forever without charges or trial. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON — Congress stripped a provision Tuesday from a defense bill that aimed to shield Americans from the possibility of being imprisoned indefinitely without trial by the military. The provision was replaced with a passage that appears to give citizens little protection from indefinite detention. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh also rejects Samsung’s motion for a new trial based on jury misconduct. Original post on latimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Genetically engineered white blood cells have been shown to have a strong impact on leukaemia after just three months Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
THERE was never a chance that the Republicans would snatch Delaware from Democratic Party control, but they had high hopes for their State Senate candidate Eric R Bodenweiser, a rabid… Original post on freethinker.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Prosecutors overlooked a bombshell piece of evidence in the Casey Anthony case, Orlando’s WKMG claims. On the day of daughter Caylee’s death, someone did a computer search for Original post on newser.com Comments on reddit.com
The Italian system’s contempt for its scientists is made plain by the guilty verdict in L’Aquila. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
Cleveland Clinic Research, Dr. VInce Tuohy has developed a breast cancer vaccine that has proven 100 percent effective in three animal models. Needs 6 million dollars to test on women. Original post on wndu.com Comments on reddit.com
A new Alzheimer’s drug could dramatically slow the pace of memory loss in those with the disease, it was revealed on Monday. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
At dusk Saturday, a Limestone County creek was alight with candles floating downstream on aluminum boats. Brandon Hydrick was killed Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Limestone County. The warm glow was Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
The doctors prescribing the drugs don’t know they don’t do what they’re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they’re not telling. Ben Goldacre investigates Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Italy’s highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Sitting in a refrigerator in a Swedish laboratory is what promises to be a cheap and effective cancer treatment. So why are the trials to bring it to market not going ahead? Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
