Year: 2012
Photos from Burning Man 2012
Motorola introduces new Droid RAZR HD line of Android smartphones
Curiosity sending back telescopic images of nearby Mars features
As part of the Mars Science Lab Mission (MSL), Curiosity is now sending back telescopic images from Mars. This image is from a test series used to characterize the 100-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover. It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012, and looks south-southwest from the rover’s landing site. The 100-millimeter Mastcam has…
Al Jazeera website hacked
Visitors to Al Jazeera’s website got a surprise overnight. Hackers replaced Al Jazeera’s home page with a message saying it was done in protest against the Doha-based television station’s coverage of the Syrian conflict. The attack lasted for several hours during which visitors were served a page with a Syrian flag and a message explaining…
The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women
The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In the brain there are high concentrations of…
Top Grossing Superhero Movies of All Time
As of September 4, 2012, here are the top grossing superhero movies of all time. The Avengers (1.5 billion) The Dark Knight Rises (1.01 billion) The Dark Knight ($1 billion) Spider Man 3 ($890 million) Spider Man ($821 million) Spider Man 2 ($783 million) The Amazing Spider Man ($705 million) Iron Man 2 ($622 million)…
Antisec hacks 12 million Apple UDIDs from FBI Cyber Security agent’s laptop
Antisec (hacking group) is at it again and this time they’ve surprised us with an example of how lax the United States’ security policies have become. Antisec managed to hack an FBI agent’s Dell laptop computer. Utilizing a shell session, the hacker(s) noticed a file sitting on the FBI agent’s desktop that look interesting. They…












