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Drones overhead in L.A.’s Valley are tracking mobile devices’ locations

Posted on February 25, 2015 Written by

It was only a mat­ter of time before drones start­ed mon­i­tor­ing sig­nals from mobile devices. Since ear­ly Feb­ru­ary, sev­er­al small drones fly­ing around the San Fer­nan­do Val­ley in Los Ange­les have been deter­min­ing mobile devices’ loca­tions from Wi-Fi and cel­lu­lar trans­mis­sion sig­nals. They are part of an exper­i­ment by Sin­­ga­­pore-based loca­tion mar­ket­ing firm Adnear, which […]

Filed Under: Surveillance

Record US Farmers Switching to Non-GMO Crops in 2015

Posted on February 25, 2015 Written by

Con­tin­ue to vote with your dol­lar “Non-GMO is More Prof­itable.” This is the ris­ing sen­ti­ment among farm­ers of the US as a con­flu­ence of fac­tors urges them to become pro-organ­ic. From falling GMO grain prices to a ris­ing tide of pub­lic dis­trust of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied ingre­di­ents, fail­ing GMO traits, high­er GMO seed prices, and the […]

Filed Under: Agriculture