Chinese hackers invade New York Times - steal passwords for every employee

The New York Times revealed yesterday that Chinese hackers have attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. It is believed that the hackers have had access to their internal network for four months. After breaking...
Chinese hackers invade New York Times - steal passwords for every employee

NASA's NEXT ion thruster engine sets new world record

NASA Glenn has been developing the next generation of ion thrusters for future missions. NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) Project has developed a 7-kilowatt ion thruster that can provide the capabilities needed in the future. The ion propulsion system’s efficient use of...
NASA's NEXT ion thruster engine sets new world record

Google rumored to be prepping upgraded Nexus 10 with more powerful quad-core processor and 8-core GPU

Rumors are beginning to circulate that Google is prepping a major upgrade to their flagship Nexus 10 tablet. The Nexus 10, introduced in October 2012, is equipped with a powerful Exynos 1.7GHz dual-core processor and a Mali-T604 GPU but users have reported performance issues such as lag and...
Google rumored to be prepping upgraded Nexus 10 with more powerful quad-core processor and 8-core GPU

Google leading effort to overhaul (or remove) 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act

According to Bloomberg, Google, who gets about 1,400 requests a month from U.S. authorities for users’ email and documents, is leading an effort to change key aspects of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act in order to limit or prohibit government access to citizen’s private...
Google leading effort to overhaul (or remove) 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act

MRO discovers interesting process on Mars surface - underground dry ice causes exploding sand dunes

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, or MRO, has discovered an interesting process on the surface of Mars – exploding sand dunes! Enormous pressure from underground frozen carbon dioxide deposits is being released through the surface creating feathery looking sand dunes in...
MRO discovers interesting process on Mars surface - underground dry ice causes exploding sand dunes

Awesome Zombie snowmen crawling out of the ground in Bristol

As the “Snowbomb” hits Wales and Southern England, with temperatures dipping to –6.1C, Jen Hutchinson of Bristol created these awesome zombie snowmen crawling out of the ground in a disused graveyard.
Awesome Zombie snowmen crawling out of the ground in Bristol

Uh oh, the size of a proton may be significantly smaller than originally believed

A team of scientists at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have upset the current body of literature on quantum electrodynamics by proving that the size of a proton is actually much smaller than originally believed. Their measurements indicated the proton’s radius measures a mere 0.84fm.
Uh oh, the size of a proton may be significantly smaller than originally believed

These dairy robots milk the cows and page the farmer in the dell when it breaks down

Widely used in Europe and beginning to catch on in the United States, these robotic milking machines require very little human labor allowing a dairy farmer to operate a 350-cow dairy with only two human employees. The robotic milkers are revolutionizing the dairy industry. When the cow gets...
These dairy robots milk the cows and page the farmer in the dell when it breaks down

Samsung announces the new Galaxy Xcover 2 smartphone - rugged smartphone for adventurers with nifty outdoorsman features

Samsung today announced its new Galaxy Xcover 2, a ruggedized smartphone designed for outdoor adventurers. It is dust and sand proof and water resistant up to a depth of one meter. It features a 4-inch display, 1GHz dual-core processor, VGA front-facing camera, and 5-megapixel rear camera. It...
Samsung announces the new Galaxy Xcover 2 smartphone - rugged smartphone for adventurers with nifty outdoorsman features

Next year, DARPA will put powerful laser weapons on aircraft to defend against rearward enemy attacks

DARPA (United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.5 million contract for the third and final phase of the DARPA Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program. The intent of the “ABC” program is to provide rearward protection of U.S....
Next year, DARPA will put powerful laser weapons on aircraft to defend against rearward enemy attacks

For anyone who thinks Twitter's new Vine will die quickly we have two words - animated GIF

Twitter uses can now add six-second looping videos to their 140-character tweets using technology Twitter bought last year from developer start-up Vine. Hey, it’s like animated GIFs with sound (or Instagram with video)! So far, the 5.7MB free application is only available to owners of iPads...
For anyone who thinks Twitter's new Vine will die quickly we have two words - animated GIF

Gotcha! U.S. accuses three people of Gozi Trojan bank raid spree - now seeking extradition

Described as one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in history, the Gozi Trojan was coded to “redesign” bank web pages allowing the hackers to obtain private information such as login credentials and three-factor authentication data. Over the years it has infected Microsoft...
Gotcha! U.S. accuses three people of Gozi Trojan bank raid spree - now seeking extradition

United States invites hackers - code for your country

The White House announced today that it will kick off a “National Day of Civic Hacking” on June 1 and 2 (2013) and is inviting those with tech know-how to use their coding skills to improve communities across the country. Participating government agencies will give hackers access to...
United States invites hackers - code for your country

Users beware - yet another way to secretly save SnapChat pictures without the other user knowing it

Besides using another device to capture the SnapChat image and other “hacks” already discovered that makes SnapChat not quite so “snappy”, yet another hack has been discovered which lets users secretly capture screen shots of SnapChat’s “private” pictures without notifying the...
Users beware - yet another way to secretly save SnapChat pictures without the other user knowing it

Google/Motorola rumored to be working on marquee smartphone known as "X Phone" [UPDATE]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is about to take control of its own branded phones with a hush, hush project dubbed – the “X Phone” (yeah, it’s a jab at iPhone). Google product manager Lior Ron is believed to be heading up the X Phone project which is said will “rival...
Google/Motorola rumored to be working on marquee smartphone known as "X Phone" [UPDATE]

Newly released European Space Agency photograph shows massive supergiant star hurling towards mysterious "dusty wall"

Betelgeuse, the supergiant bright red star in the picture above, lies in the shoulder of Orion and has dozens of times the mass of the Sun. Scientists believe Betelgeuse is ready to detonate as a supernova at any time. The European Space Agency yesterday released the photograph above showing...
Newly released European Space Agency photograph shows massive supergiant star hurling towards mysterious "dusty wall"

The unique design of Casio's upcoming dual-screen Android smartphone opens up a world of possibilities

NEC Casio’s upcoming Medias W Android smartphone will have two 4.3-inch touch screens arranged back-to-back on a hinge. When unfolded, the rear screen swings up to form a single 5.6-inch touch screen (with the line in the middle). In normal usage patterns, the main screen will be used with...
The unique design of Casio's upcoming dual-screen Android smartphone opens up a world of possibilities

Scientists think Red Tide may be cause of mass jumbo squid suicides in California

Thousands of jumbo squid have purposely beached themselves in Monterey Bay located in central California in an apparent “mass suicide” and now researchers think they may know why. Mass jumbo squid have flung themselves ashore many times in the past decades but until know, scientists have...
Scientists think Red Tide may be cause of mass jumbo squid suicides in California

New TV series based on the hit movie Zombieland is heading to Amazon Instant Video

Amazon aims to beef up its original programming lineup with the announcement of a new television series Zombieland based on the hit comedy movie of the same name and set in the same zombie-filled universe as the feature film that starred Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson. Work on the project...
New TV series based on the hit movie Zombieland is heading to Amazon Instant Video

Brilliant animated GIF shows how a key unlocks a lock

We wonder why it took so long for someone to do this. This animated gif from Soup shows a breakaway picture of a lock while a key turns to unlock it. Brilliant animation! And now we know…
Brilliant animated GIF shows how a key unlocks a lock

Probe finds strongest evidence yet that Mars may have (or does) support life

On Sunday, January 20, officials announced that data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft provides evidence of a wet underground environment, and clues that suggest a groundwater-fed lake could have existed in McLaughlin Crater, a crater...
Probe finds strongest evidence yet that Mars may have (or does) support life

Researchers discover proof of massive gamma-ray burst striking Earth in 8th century

Astronomers Valeri Hambaryan and Ralph Neuhӓuser have discovered proof that a massive short duration gamma-ray burst hit the earth in the 8th century. The intense blast of high-energy radiation could have caused a mass-extinction event if it had been just a tad bit closer to the earth....
Researchers discover proof of massive gamma-ray burst striking Earth in 8th century

Terminally ill 23-year-old man dies after Reddit-backed around-the-world trip

Today we learned that Jake Villanueva, the 23-year-old who posted about his terminal cancer on Reddit last summer and was rewarded with $30,000 in donations to travel around the world, has died. Back in June 2012, 23-year-old Jake Villanueva of Vancouver took to Reddit to do an AMA (ask me...
Terminally ill 23-year-old man dies after Reddit-backed around-the-world trip

Google/Motorola rumored to be working on marquee smartphone known as "X Phone" [UPDATE]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is about to take control of its own branded phones with a hush, hush project dubbed – the “X Phone” (yeah, it’s a jab at iPhone). Google product manager Lior Ron is believed to be heading up the X Phone project which is said will “rival...
Google/Motorola rumored to be working on marquee smartphone known as "X Phone" [UPDATE]

Red October espionage platform begins shutting down after exposure on Monday

The Operation Red October espionage campaign was exposed on Monday (1/14/13) by Russian anti-virus software maker Kaspersky Lab. The Red October network was found to target hundreds of diplomatic, governmental, and scientific organizations in at least 39 countries, including the Russian...
Red October espionage platform begins shutting down after exposure on Monday

Original Batmobile sold at auction for $4.6 million to a Batman fan

The Batmobile is a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car built in Italy by the Ford Motor Company and based on the stock Lincoln Mark II automobile. It was bought in 1965 by legendary car customizer George Barris for $1. Barris spent $15,000 to upgrade the car over 15 days to turn it into the...
Original Batmobile sold at auction for $4.6 million to a Batman fan

The world's oldest lightbulb that still works has been burning for over 112 years

At Fire Station 6, in Livermore, California, there burns a lightbulb that has survived several moves, varying voltage, and even earthquakes – and as of June 2012, it has been burning for over 112 years. In 1900, Adolphe A. Chailet and his company Shelby Electric Company, was a competitor of...
The world's oldest lightbulb that still works has been burning for over 112 years

Wanted - surrogate mother for first Neanderthal baby

Harvard University’s George Church has talked about alarming genetic engineering ideas before but a recent comment in Spiegel Online has a few people scratching their heads. In a Q&A in Der Spiegel (Germany’s Spiegel Online), Church talks about engineering humans to live to 120 years...
Wanted - surrogate mother for first Neanderthal baby

Amazing video of pulsar spinning and jetting out X-ray particles [VIDEO]

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a movie of a collapsed star that’s spinning faster than a helicopter rotor and unleashing ultra-fast particles that move at 70 percent of the speed of light. The video gives us a spell-bounding view of the ultra-dense star, named Vela (or PSR...
Amazing video of pulsar spinning and jetting out X-ray particles [VIDEO]

European Space Agency launches asteroid deflection project in effort to knock asteroid off its earth-bound course

The European Space Agency has launched its Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) project in an effort to search for a way to counter the threat of an earth-bound asteroid, potentially by knocking the asteroid off its course. The idea is to send two small spacecraft to intercept an...
European Space Agency launches asteroid deflection project in effort to knock asteroid off its earth-bound course

Alarm clock delivers an electrical shock to ensure you pay the price for hitting snooze too many times

Designer Sankalp Sinha has created an alarm clock that includes a high-quality music player that holds 32GB of music, a touchscreen interface, beautiful LED illuminated side panels – and when you press the snooze button it delivers an electrical shock to discourage any further lounging around....
Alarm clock delivers an electrical shock to ensure you pay the price for hitting snooze too many times

12-pound gold nugget discovered in field where hundreds of prospectors had searched before

An anonymous gold prospector using a Minelab GPX-5000 metal detector has discovered a 12-pound gold nugget worth a whopping $315,000 dollars. The prospector was searching in a field near the city of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, in a well-known, previously searched gold prospecting field. ...
12-pound gold nugget discovered in field where hundreds of prospectors had searched before

Tron effect - new sports court floor technology allows projection of video and images from underneath flooring

Germany’s ASB Systembau GMBH has developed a new clear flooring using a semi-opaque ceramic finish to produce a floor that “does not reflect too much light to be a distraction but still gives a slight reflection which compares to the effect marble has on the eye.” The flooring is indeed...
Tron effect - new sports court floor technology allows projection of video and images from underneath flooring

Cornerstone of Mars Curiosity Rover mission, drilling Martian surface, is about to begin

No spacecraft has ever penetrated the rocky surface of Mars, or any planet for that matter, but that is about to change. In the past few weeks, Curiosity Rover has been stationed in a region called Yellowknife Bay, which features fractured ground with different temperature swings compared to...
Cornerstone of Mars Curiosity Rover mission, drilling Martian surface, is about to begin

Latest Sony Xperia Tablet Z rumors

Undoubtedly the Sony Xperia Z smartphone is going to rock and the Xperia Tablet Z looks to be lining itself up quite will with its smaller sibling. We’ re fairly certain the device will sport Sony’s highly touted waterproof and dustproof casing and Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 running on a...
Latest Sony Xperia Tablet Z rumors

Facebook's new Graph Search could be a game changer (or has everyone already moved on to better things?)

Amidst falling stock prices and a fleeing user base, Facebook introduced an upgraded search tool today – Graph Search, which will allow a more natural language search (e.g. search for “friends who like cats and UFOs” or “pictures taken on the beach in Mexico”). Mark Zuckerberg says...
Facebook's new Graph Search could be a game changer (or has everyone already moved on to better things?)

Geeks never cry! Yeah, right. See if you can read this 16th century death letter without shedding a tear

In 1998, after several hours of hard work, archeologists in Andong City, Korea dug through a tomb exposing a small wooden casket. Inside they found a very well-preserved body, skull decayed but skin and beard still visible. Also found in the tomb, placed beside his head, were the sandals...
Geeks never cry! Yeah, right. See if you can read this 16th century death letter without shedding a tear

Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - status watch - latest news [UPDATE]

Lionsgate has announced the start of principal photography on the sequel to the blockbuster film, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will film primarily in and near Atlanta, Georgia. The film will subsequently be shot on location on the beaches and jungles of Hawaii before...
Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - status watch - latest news [UPDATE]

Kaley Cuoco pictorial - Penny from Big Bang Theory

Kaley Cuoco gained recognition and fame from her role as Penny, the beautiful girl that lived next door to the Big Bang Theory geeks.  As a child, Kaley was a nationally ranked ametuer tennis player (she had to give it up due to an injury). Cuoco was named number 77 on FHM-Us 100 Sexiest Women in 2005 and number 21 in 2008.  She was also named number 28 on Maxim’s annual Hot 100 list in 2010 and number 13 in 2011.  Kaley has stated publicly that she is a big fan of Game of Thrones and Harry Potter.

 

 

 

Kaley Cuoco pictorial - Penny from Big Bang Theory

Godzilla movie (2014) - latest news - status watch [UPDATE]

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have set the release date for the movie Godzilla as May 16, 2014. Godzilla will be directed by directed by Gareth Edwards, who previously directed Monsters.
Godzilla movie (2014) - latest news - status watch [UPDATE]