British scientists developed a Terminator-like cyborg arm, which is controlled by thought alone and has a fully mobile shoulder and elbow, and a sensitive “gripper” that mimics a human hand, the Daily Mail reports.
A microchip implanted in the brain is linked to a sensor in the prosthetic, which “reads” the signals and reacts instantaneously, the report says.
Professor Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading and pioneer of the amazing new technology, …

I found this from Working Class Tory’s blog, and although I think I have done this test already in the past, I took it again and here’s the outcome:

So, according to the test I’m pretty much at Right, which is correct and a good thing, and slightly “authoritarian”. However, I’m afraid I must argue against that as I don’t believe that the opposite of libertarianism is necessarily authoritarianism. I don’t think proper conservativism is either …

An army of 29,000 professional politicians is costing British taxpayers £500 million a year, the Daily Mail reports.
The sums needed to pay for MPs, Lords, councillors, MEPs, assembly members and their advisors has rocketed dramatically during the last decade, records show.
The boom is partly due to Labour’s introduction of the Scottish Parliament and devolved assemblies in Wales, Northern Ireland and London. But also automatic pay for local councilors has helped raise the sum.
That means there’s …

The Government is sitting on losses of almost £11bn from its rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group and there will be no quick exit for the taxpayer, the body that manages the stakes warned today.
UK Financial Investments said in its annual report that its loss on the two stakes – 70pc of RBS and 43pc of Lloyds Banking Group – had reached £10.9bn at the end of June, the Telegraph reports.
The …

Good news for people who detest wires – wireless televisions, which can connect to a set top box or DVD player without any cables, will be in the shops later this year, the Telegraph reports.
Wireless TVs can communicate with digital boxes, DVD players and games consoles without ugly jumbles of cables from one machine to another.
It is expected that the televisions will start being sold in shops later this year.
I wonder though, would it be …

A 15-year-old schoolboy, an intern at US bank Morgan Stanley, Matthew Robson, wrote in a paper where he was asked to describe his friends’ media habits, that teenagers don’t use Twitter as no one reads their tweets, thus making tweeting pointless.
“Teenagers do not use Twitter,” he declared, according to the Daily Mail. Updating Twitter from mobile phones costs money, he wrote, and “they realise that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are …

According to a recent poll, if Israel held general election today, the Right would gain even further seats from 65 to 71, Arutz 7 reports.
These are the results that were received, current Knesset seats are in brackets:
29 [27] Likud
23 [28] Kadima
16 [15] Yisrael Beiteinu
12 [11] Shas
10 [13] Labour
06 [05] UTJ
05 [03] Meretz
11 [11] Arab parties
04 [04] Nat’l Union
04 [03] Jewish Home]
While the mainstream media has been almost unanimous in declaring Netanyahu a failure, most of …

Prosecutors in Germany formally charged alleged nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II, the BBC reports.
There was no immediate word on when the trial of the 89-year-old retired car worker, who was deported from the United States in May, might begin.
Demjanjuk has denied accusations that he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp and helped murder Jews.  He says he was captured by …

The House of Lords Appointments Commission today recommended the appointment of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks as a Life Peer, the Jewish Chronicle reports.
“I am honoured by this appointment. I am proud to be following in the footsteps of my predecessor, Lord Jakobovits who served in the House of Lords,” Sir Jonathan said. “I will be combining both my Rabbinical responsibilities and the opportunities that membership of the House of Lords offer me to speak …

Kazakhstan joined the happy family of internet-censoring nations when President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed into law new controls on the world wide web that allow courts to block websites and to class blogs and chatrooms as media.
The Central Asian state says the law was aimed at preventing unrest and protecting people’s rights, according to Reuters.
Several websites, including the popular blogging service LiveJournal.com, are already inaccessible to most Kazakh Internet users.
In 2007, a court gave a pro-opposition …

As “scientists” never cease to be bored, new and interesting studies emerge all the time. Now a “research” has found that the words “I love you” are worth £163,424.
Being in a stable relationship rings up a fortune of £154,849 with £63,256 placed on spending time with good mates, the Telegraph reports.
The book “You Are Really Rich, You Just Don’t Know It Yet” from former ad executives Steve Henry and David Alberts aims to show there …

Alaska Governor, former ex-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she is not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back onto the national scene when she leaves office at the end of the month, the Telegraph reports.
She plans to write a book, campaign for political candidates from coast to coast and build a right-of-centre coalition.
“I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of …

Senior adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Michael Jacobs has contracted swine flu, probably during a visit to Mexico last month, the Telegraph reports.
It is not thought that Jacobs, PM’s environmental adviser, had direct contact with Brown after he first developed the symptoms of swine flu two weeks ago and Downing Street sources said the Prime Minister is in good health.
Jacobs’ condition came to light when he failed to attend last week’s G8 summit in …

Japan lurched towards one of its biggest post-war political upsets this morning, as the Prime Minister, Taro Aso, called a snap election which is almost certain to result in the defeat of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for only the second time in more than half a century, the Times reports.
Aso’s decision came after the LDP suffered a humiliating defeat in elections yesterday for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly. The results confirm the trend suggested all …

Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea, is suffering from pancreatic cancer and may die from the disease, a South Korean television station has reported, citing intelligence sources.
The report, from Yonhap Television News, was attributed to unnamed Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources, the Telegraph reports.
A report in the Japanese media over the weekend said that Kim has a “serious pancreatic disorder”.
Kim’s health appears to have steadily declined since the end of last year, when …