DNAtrax tracks tainted food with molecular bar code

David Szondy — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:31:41 GMT

According to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), 129,000 Americans are sent to hospital and 3,000 die each year from food poisoning. Currently, tracing contaminated food is largely a matter of record keeping and detective work, but Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, in partnership with DNATrek, have developed DNATrax, a DNA-based additive for directly tracking food from producer to consumer.

Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: DNA, Food, Tracking, Piracy, Bacteria, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Pirate Bay might move servers to the sky to avoid the authorities

Jonathan Fincher — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:04:11 GMT

The Pirate Bay has announced that it may soon take to the skies in its ongoing efforts to avoid the authorities. Various governments and legal teams across the globe have had the file-sharing website in their cross-hairs for several years now, which has prompted the site in the past to relocate its main operations to a secret location and to switch to only hosting magnet links for torrents. Now the site is seriously considering sending out a fleet of drones fitted with server stations that will hover several kilometers above ground and broadcast through radio transmitters at all times, making it even more difficult to shut down.

Category: Astronomy, Science

Tags: Piracy, Servers