UIGE, Angola — Domingos Pedro was only 12 years old when his father died. The passing was sudden; the cause was a mystery to doctors. But not to Domingos’s relatives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10671790

An increasing number of children are being accused of witchcraft in parts of Africa, the UN children's agency says.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/return-to-africas-witch-children/

A story of an estimated 15,000 children in Africa's Niger Delta being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2110932/African-witchcraft-murders-These-evil-zealots-hide-culture-race.html

Torturing teenagers has nothing to do with culture or race, the evil zealots behind disturbing rise in African witchcraft MUST be stopped

Grâce à une technologie de gravure au plasma, des scientifiques américains ont créé des puces RFID suffisamment fines pour être incorporées dans du papier. Un procédé moins onéreux et plus rapide que les méthodes actuelles, qui pourrait être utilisé pour sécuriser des documents officiels et des billets de banque. Explications avec le professeur Val Marinov, le chercheur à l’origine du projet.

Les RFIDs peuvent-elles devenir un réseau de surveillance des citoyens ? Imaginons un réseau qui analyserait tous les RFIDs actifs aux sorties des magasins. Ainsi, tous les comportements des clients seraient recensés. Ce scénario digne d'Orwell n'est plus une pure abstraction.

High-resolution scans pinpoint the exact part of the brain where Alzheimer's begins - and trace its spread

Scientist from Columbia University in New York made the discovery
They found the disease starts in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC)
It is linked to the part of the brain where long-term memories are stored
Study also outlined how the disease spreads from the LEC to the rest of the brain

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The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites

It fell to the UK Tories to actually implement the Nanny State. Too bad Nanny Tory does not want kinds to read up on tech web sites, or civil liberties ones. Read on for a small sample of what the filter blocks, from a blocked-by-default tech write

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