A young Iraqi woman died tonight in Arizona because her father believed she had become too Westernized. Noor Faleh Almaleki, the 20-year old pictured here, moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-90s with her family. Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki,...

Here are complete instructions (software, source code, build manual, hardware) for an autonomous sentry gun that will shoot anything that moves. DIY autonomous sentry gun

Darren sez, "A disarming video of an 86-year-old WWII veteran from a public meeting on Maine's marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009." The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was...

In today's New York Times, a terrific piece by John Schwartz about an attorney who traded 20 years of struggling to keep death row prisoners "from the executioner's needle" for a new job at a middle school populated by poor, at-risk...

As if Vegas casinos don't already rake in enough money from suckers, now they are developing technology to automatically detect people who count cards. The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "...

Rumor time! AT&T reportedly has a new solution to insufficient 3G network capacity in New York (or maybe just fraud in New York): it's refusing to sell iPhones online to customers with New York zip codes.

Andrew Sullivan: "The cries of freedom. They bring tears to my eyes and hope to my soul. The sound: it makes every human stop in their tracks and demand that this vicious oppression end." Police in Iran shot at protesters today, killing at least 10,...

One of the highlights of David and my careers as technology journalists was meeting the beautiful Julie Newmar about 15 years ago. (She and Jerry Pournelle signed wooden cheese cutting boards for us). On Cartoon Retro, Shane Glines posted some screen...

(Image: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at far left, in a photo from his Facebook profile, via NYT.) Here's an open thread for discussing the awesome new TSA in-flight security restrictions that will surely protect us all from future pantsbombers. Just...

A study published by the Journal of Family Issues has found that there is a link between household labor time and sexual frequency — the more men help out with chores at home, the more sex a couple tends to have. Lead researcher Constance Gager: "We're...