News tagged with big brother

'Mars crew' locked up for 520 days of isolation

Six men from Europe, Russia and China were Thursday locked away from the outside world for the next one-and-a-half years, in an unprecedented experiment to simulate the effects of a mission to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 03, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 10

Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies

(AP) -- It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

Mar 05, 2010 | 4 / 5 (1) | 3