Western Digital (WD) announced today the availability of its new WD RE 3.5 inch hard drive line. The drive uses No Touch technology which keeps the recording heads from touching the disk media and hence, less wear on recording heads and drive media surfaces. They offer up to 4TB storage space and are excellent for…
Year: 2012
Unusual April 2012 Indonesian Earthquake may have broken tectonic plate and created new plate boundary
The April 11, 2012 series of Earthquakes in Indonesia may have been a bigger event than originally thought – they may have broken the tectonic plate. The largest of the quakes was a magnitude 8.7 offshore quake that produced stronger ground-shaking than any earthquake in history. Scientists found it odd that it triggered several earthquakes…
Cool: Remote control Pac-Man racers – Blinky and Ghosts can now chase each other around your living room
Hide your cherries and get out of the way, Pac-Man remote controlled racers have arrived. These iconic Pac-Man racers can move in all four directions and include authentic 8-bit Pac-Man sound effects (sound activated by a button on the side of the remote). The racers are weighted so they won’t topple over.
ISS debris avoidance maneuver cancelled – NASA breathes sigh of relief
Makers of critical Smart-Grid energy sector software hacked – digital footprints point to Chinese hacker group
Telvent, makers of critical electrical grid software, discovered on September 10, 2012 that it had suffered a breach into its network – a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Project files were stolen and malware installed by the attackers. Digital fingerprints suggest the attacks are related to Comment…
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Record breaking deep space photo captures farthest-ever view into the universe – only .5 billion years short of the beginning of time
The new eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) photograph gives us a glimpse back 13.2 billion years into the universe’s past. Given that the universe is thought to be around 13.7 billion years old, this gives us a glimpse of the universe at its very earliest stages of development. To create the picture, Hubble returned to the…









