Boeing details its mysterious Black smartphone, which destroys sensitive data if opened

Can you imagine if they had done this during Brown v Board of Education? We’re living in the future, and yet we are still debating the same old segregation and bigotry as we did in the past.

As we await the launch of Discovery, I can’t help but wonder: what is the point of the shuttle program? Does it contribute anything, really, to space exploration? To scientific discovery? It’s an orbiter  [more...]