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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said on Monday that it will buy 30 new machines capable of checking documents such as identification cards, passports, driver’s licenses and boarding passes to improve security for air travelers. The agency said it plans to test the new machines, expected to cost $3.2 million each, at U.S. gateway checkpoints in early 2012. The machines are made by BAE Systems Information Solutions, Trans-Digital Technologies and NCR Government Systems. TSA will pay the three companies $79 million each for the machines, which will provide 10 each of the device for testing at American airports. An earlier version of the machine was pilot tested at two Washington-area airports in 2009. The equipment aims to prevent the repeat of an incident in June when a Nigerian man went through a checkpoint at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and boarded a Virgin American plane bound for Los Angeles using the boarding [...] Continue Reading…

Diane Alter – AHN News Trivia Writer
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – A vial of Ted Bundy’s blood may help investigators close several cold cases. Before he was sent to the electric chair in in 1989, notorious serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to more than 30 murders. Experts always believed he was responsible for more killings. Now, investigators are hoping a vial of his blood will help them close several cold cases dating as far back as 1961. Bundy’s blood, recovered from an evidence lab in Columbia County, FL, was to be entered into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) on Friday. After loading Bundy’s blood type into the FBI data base, authorities will know right away if a match is made A reopened 1961 cold case involving a missing 8 year-old girl in Tacoma, WA, prompted the call for a complete DNA profile of Bundy. The child lived along a newspaper route that Bundy worked as a teenager. During his rampant killing spree [...] Continue Reading…

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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada (AHN) – A large team of international forensic experts are in Canada to dig up the mass graves of about 100 sled dogs killed in Whistler, British Columbia. The exhumation is part of an animal cruelty probe initiated by the province. The incident created international furor because of the grisly manner the dogs were slaughtered in April at a ski resort town. A man who claimed to be linked to the animal deaths and sought workers’ compensation recounted that the dogs’ throats were slashed before they were executed and thrown into the grave. The BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the team is made up of forensic scientists, anthropologists and veterinarians who have performed similar exhumation operations in mass graves in Rwanda and Guatemala. They will start to dig on Thursday. Among the things that the probers will look for are evidence that the animals suffered and experienced pain before they were killed. Such [...] Continue Reading…

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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada (AHN) – A large team of international forensic experts are in Canada to dig up the mass graves of about 100 sled dogs killed in Whistler, British Columbia. The exhumation is part of an animal cruelty probe initiated by the province. The incident created international furor because of the grisly manner the dogs were slaughtered in April at a ski resort town. A man who claimed to be linked to the animal deaths and sought workers’ compensation recounted that the dogs’ throats were slashed before they were executed and thrown into the grave. The BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the team is made up of forensic scientists, anthropologists and veterinarians who have performed similar exhumation operations in mass graves in Rwanda and Guatemala. They will start to dig on Thursday. Among the things that the probers will look for are evidence that the animals suffered and experienced pain before they were killed. Such [...] Continue Reading…

Lulz Security, the hacker group behind the Sony website breaches, claimed responsibility for shutting down the portal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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Lulz Security, the hacker group behind the Sony website breaches, claimed responsibility for shutting down the portal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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A rumor Monday accused RIM of pushing carriers into approving devices they wouldn’t normally accept. In order to avoid delays on phones like the BlackBerry Bold 9900, the company is supposedly demanding that carriers take one of its Technical Acceptance builds for approval “no matter what,” the BGR source said. The practice had allegedly already been in effect as far back as the Rogers release of the Bold 9000 months ahead of AT&T….

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Are you looking for some good news about on-the-ropes RIM, battered and bruised by Apple’s iPhone and iPad one-two punch? Keep looking. Wall Street’s all but ready to throw in the towel on the punch drunk Blackberry maker. After last week’s torrent of bad news, this week doesn’t start any better for the Waterloo, Ontario [...]

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When Apple arrives in September at the iPod refresh event, or as some tech websites surmise that September 7 could be the day, Apple will meet a band of five stellar Android smartphones – Samsung Galaxy S 2, HTC Sensation, EVO 3D, Motorola Photon and Atrix.

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Linda Young – AHN News Writer
London, United Kingdom (AHN) – Both retailer Carrefour SA and smartphone maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) slumped on news Friday that future profit reports would come in lower than expected. Carrefour SA, Europe’s largest retailer, saw its stock price fall by 6 percent after it issued a warning that profits in France, its core market, were going to fall. The retailer is facing tough competition from other retailers in France and says its profit report would be lower than it had forecast. Carrefour shares slid 4.7 percent in trading after the announcement. In the meantime, RIM, which manufactures the BlackBerry smartphone, adjusted its low profit warning to extend it to the rest of the year after its profits for the past quarter came in even lower than it had initially expected. RIM blamed product delays for soft sales and announced it would cut jobs.

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