A giant “softball-sized” eyeball washed up on a beach in south Florida yesterday, no nobody seems to know what it is. It is presumed to be the eyeball of a giant squid or a whale. Still, pretty freaky.
Year: 2012
Macgyver robot programmed to use whatever it has on hand to get the job done
The Macgyver bot is designed to go into a disaster are and use whatever is lying around as tools to get the job done. Developed by researchers at Georgia Tech, the Macgyver bot will be preprogrammed with algorithms and logic sequences which will allow it to assess a situation, and the environment it occurs in,…
James Bond cheat sheet – Bond actors, movie list, and movie posters
Department of Homeland Security to form “CyberReserve” volunteer cybersecurity army made of civilian hackers?
According to sources, the Department of Homeland Security was advised last week, to create a “cyber skills task force” that would act as a reserve army of cyber specialists in order to mold top-notch cybersecurity talent to address U.S. cybersecurity emergencies. Called the “CyberReserve” and similar to the National Guard program, CyberReserve would ensure professional…
Akamai’s Real-time web monitor uses 105,000 servers to identify regions with greatest attack traffic
Akamai, who operate one of the world’s largest distributed-computing platforms, monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data they identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density). It does this with a network of…
Defense Secretary Panetta warns of dire threat of cyberattack on U.S.–equivalent of “cyber Pearl Harbor”
United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta painted a dire picture of cyberattack on the United States yesterday saying “an aggressor nation or extremist group could use these kinds of cyber tools to gain control of critical switches. They could derail passenger trains, or even more dangerous, derail passenger trains loaded with lethal chemicals.”
How to handle being charged by a 400 pound gorilla
Gorillas are considered to be highly intelligent. People are considered to be highly intelligent too – at least most of them are. In this video, note how the man handles being charged by a 400lb gorilla – by standing his ground and not flinching (his big balls probably keep him anchored pretty well too).
Researchers discover planet that is twice Earth’s size and made of granite and diamonds
Universal orders takedown of dancing baby video because one of their songs was playing in the background
EFF has a big case this week in San Jose, California. The problem began in 2007 when Stephanie Lenz posted a video on YouTube. In the 29-second clip, Lenz’s young son is dancing in the kitchen to the tune of “Let’s Go Crazy” which is playing on a stereo in the background. Universal Music Publishing…
SpaceX lost more than an engine this week – they dropped a satellite along the way that deorbited
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vessel launch was exciting and the engine flameout added a bit of drama to the historic event. Now we find out that more than an engine was lost in the mission. An Orbcomm communications satellite was riding in the “trunk” of the Falcon 9 rocket. The engine failure forced an early release…









