The UK is experiencing an increase in gang warfare, sometimes deadly. One cause is budget cuts in programs that support troubled youth.

Google plans to offer "confidential" emails which can't be downloaded out of Gmail.

This looks like an anticompetitive scheme to make suckers pressure others to use Gmail rather than anything else.

It doesn't provide any real security. It interferes only with the more convenient means to copy the message.

Chinese take puns so seriously that they build them into taboos.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity warn that the chlorine attack in Ghouta may have been a false flag attack by the rebels that were under attack.

Republicans want to terminate food assistance to a million poor Americans.