Star Trek warp drive might be possible after all

Pack your bags. Space.com reports that scientists may have found a loophole in that pesky “speed of light” limit making warp drives (drives that enable travel through space-time), as popularized in the television series Star Trek, possible after all.

According to ComputerWorld, attackers have begun exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. The vulnerability allows hackers to hijack Windows PCs that browse to malicious or compromised websites.

The future of shopping has arrived. Shoppers at the Casino Les Belles Feuilles supermarket in France, one of France’s largest supermarket chains, will soon be able to use NFC (near field communication) in their shopping endeavors.

Tim Cook had one job to do and he botched it – and it’s going to change the way we view Apple products. Geeks know that Android devices offer superior technology, but that’s not why Apple fanboys buy Apple products. Steve Jobs got it. Tim Cook doesn’t.

Scientists are confounded after discovering virgin viper births occurring both in the wild and in captivity (teenage geeks everywhere hold their breath hoping the anomaly does not spread to the human population).

Of course, when a vehicle is driving down millions of miles of random streets taking billions of pictures, you’re bound to end up capturing some unexpected (and entertaining) results. Here is a collection of odd and funny Google Street View pictures.

Intel thinks they have smashed through a huge barrier with a discovery that will lead to much faster and more efficient processors. Solving 10nm (nanometer) manufacturing problem will pave the way for chips that consume less power and have greater performance than current day chips.

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.

Apple has posted a PDF schematic of the iPhone 5 for case makers. It’s not a technical schematic of course, but is pretty cool in that it lists all measurements, camera cone angles, and areas of the device that should be given special consideration.

If history is any indication, we can expect Apple to use the iPhone 5 processor in their devices for at least a couple of years. Apple of course has not released any details on their new processor other than the claim that it provides twice the processor performance and twice the graphics performance of the…