Federal officials Tuesday said there would be no charges filed in connection with the Lower Merion webcam case. “After a thorough review of the evidence in this matter by my office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, the Montgomery County Detectives, and the Lower Merion Police Department, I have concluded [...]
The Lower Merion School District on Monday adopted a new set of policies to govern the use and tracking of student laptops and other technology, its latest step to get past the furor of webcam monitoring. The measures, passed unanimously by the school board at its monthly meeting, spell out in detail when, how, and [...]
Pornographers contact the teens with threats to expose their behavior unless they pose for more. The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails. A [...]
Services streamed direct to living rooms give distant loved ones a chance to say goodbye. After Brantford trooper Larry Zuidema Rudd was killed by a roadside bomb last May, thousands of his friends and family booted up their computers to watch his funeral live. The moving military service was streamed right from the funeral home [...]
The race of web cam chat users has grown considerably over time. A wide collection of various kinds of webcams and private chat rooms has made it possible for the web users today to communicate efficiently and effectively with people anywhere in the world, no matter how far they might be. The enhanced clarity of [...]
No time to see the doctor? No problem. In Britain, patients can get diagnosed, treated online. In Britain, an increasing number of websites are pushing the boundaries of online medicine, with at least a dozen sites offering consultations and medication most countries only allow during in-person visits or remote ones with the help of a [...]
As BP confidently claim that the static kill process has successfully plugged the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, attention now turns to the remaining oil form the 4 months of leaking. This live view is from Naples Bay, and shows that the oil cleanup operation appears to have been very successful: BP Gulf [...]
Mere telephone calls aren’t good enough? Video calls don’t push the envelope far enough? Japanese researchers may have just what you need: a life-size robot that speaks, moves, and blinks your phone calls at you. Called the Telenoid R1, the robot has sensors to transmit the movements and sounds of your caller and motors that [...]
Sex industry job adverts like one for nude webcam performers which outraged a Bridgwater mum, have been banned from Jobcentres. The Government’s Minister for Employment Chris Grayling says the move will serve to protect people who are anxious to get work from feeling they have to consider jobs that they aren’t comfortable with. The Mercury [...]
Bran Castle (German: Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvár), situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Braşov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania. The fortress is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on DN73. Commonly known as “Dracula’s Castle” (although it is one among several locations linked to the Dracula legend, including [...]