Irish Air Traffic Controller Texts A Plane Through Landing

AS INSANE as this might sound, it emerged today that an Irish air traffic controller managed to talk down text down a plane in distress into a safe landing at Cork airport when all computer systems onboard the plane had failed. Read more

Mobile Phone Users Secretly Tracked Outside Of USA

BEFORE you get all agitated, I’m not claiming that the USA is now tracking all mobile phones outside their borders – although I’m sure some genius is working on a program to do something similar in the seemingly endless war on terror. I’m actually referring to a recent study which is raising big questions about data protection, privacy and ethics. Read more