Neowin News Feed for: Drugs

Google's quantum computing efforts to give you better health and unlimited electricity

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:48:02 +0000

For World Quantum Day, Google has outlined some of the big potential benefits quantum computers could deliver from the 2030s. Here are Google's picks. Read more...

Drug that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria was unknowingly growing in a garden

Sayan Sen — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:34:02 +0000

A new antibiotic that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been discovered, and it was found in a garden. Read more...

Apple reverses stance about popular Mac app being named after a drug

Usama Jawad — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:14:02 +0000

Apple recently stated that the Amphetamine app for Mac would be removed from the App Store for being named after a drug and featuring a pill icon. Now, the company has reversed its stance. Read more...

Major dark web drug suppliers voluntarily ban sales of deadly drug

Paul Hill — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:46:01 +0000

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency has said that several online drug markets located on the dark web have taken down fentanyl product listings given the danger it poses to human life. Read more...

Hansa dark web market pulled offline, authorities confirm AlphaBay closure too

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:44:02 +0000

Following the closure of AlphaBay earlier this month, the dark web market Hansa has also been taken offline. The closure was the result of a landmark international law enforcement investigation. Read more...

Founder of Silk Road loses appeal, will spend rest of his life in jail

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 03:40:01 +0000

A court has rejected an appeal from the Silk Road drug market founder, Ross Ulbricht. He will continue to serve his life sentence that he was handed for drug trafficking and money laundering. Read more...

Terbium Labs: Most of the dark web content, visible through Tor, is legal

Paul Hill — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:50:01 +0000

A new study by Terbium Labs has shown that the majority of the dark web, accessible through Tor, is in fact legal content. Drugs make up, by far, the largest section of illegal content. Read more...

Massive raid shuts down more than 400 dark net websites, worldwide arrests

Usama Jawad — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:02:02 +0000

Dark net sites hide a user's identity by routing their traffic through a series of computers. They have been associated with illegal activity so many of them are being shut down in a global raid. Read more...

Samsung dominates phone market, now making drugs

Christopher White — Tue, 13 May 2014 03:10:06 +0000

Samsung, the market leader in Android-based mobile phones, is branching out into the pharmaceutical market by investing over $2 billion (with a B) into drugs that are no longer patented. Read more...

Federal authorities seize Bitcoins for what may be the first time

Paul Ferson — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:21:54 +0000

In what may be the first case of its kind, federal authorities have seized Bitcoins, the all-digital currency, from a South Carolina man for breaching the Controlled Substances Act in the USA. Read more...

Study: Teens on social networking sites more likely to use drugs

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:10:26 +0000

A new study from Columbia University claims that teenagers who use social networking sites like Facebook are more likely to use drugs, smoke or drink. Read more...

Online World Offers Virtual Drugs

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:11:59 +0000

It's finally happened. Not only can you have a "Second Life" on the internet, you can now get virtually high. Virtual world Red Light Center has started selling virtual drugs in its online nightclubs, hotels,... Read more...