NASA and ISS may be slowly loosening their tight lips with regards to the normally hush-hush UFO phenomenon. Today, Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and the commander of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station, tweeted pictures of a huge piece of debris that he captured on film floating near ISS. Upon closer inspection, the object…
Amazon improves Cloud Drive – new version allows file synchronization (but doesn’t support Android or iOS yet)
Amazon today announced the availability of their improved Amazon Cloud Drive cloud storage service. The new version of Amazon Cloud Drive allows file synchronization via a desktop app for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, and Mac OS 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. No word on when support for Android, iOS, or other mobile platforms will…
Two-ton Mantis hexapod robot machine powered by 2.2L diesel engine
Meet the Mantis, a two-ton all-terrain hexapod built by Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems. Looking like something out of a Sci-Fi horror movie, the robotic machine is powered by a Perkins 2.2L Turbo Diesel engine and can be operated with onboard controls or via a remote Wi-Fi controller. It’s onboard controller is a Linux-based PC…
Doctor Evil’s two-headed shark discovered in Gulf of Mexico
Researchers confirmed last week that the two-headed shark discovered in the Gulf of Mexico on April 7, 2011, was indeed a single shark with two heads and not a conjoined twin. The specimen was found by a fisherman in the uterus of a pregnant female shark near the Florida Keys. It is the first confirmed…
Thieves caught after police track their footprints in the snow
Thieves were caught after police tracked footprints they left behind in the snow. Two men held up a store in Whitnash, Warwickshire last Saturday morning (March 23, 2013) and left with money and lottery scratchcards. Authorities showed up to investigate and taking advantage of the snowy conditions, followed the thieves’ footprints to a nearby block…
Google announces shutdown of online video service – YouTube (and other 2013 Aprils Fools pranks)
Lots of interesting geek news today and vendors, retailers, and manufacturers kick off the 2nd quarter of 2013. With the interesting slate of new products and technologies, we’re sure to see some big hits come out of this roundup. Google reminded us today that YouTube was and has always been a contest. As the experiment…
Largest DDoS attack in history clogs Internet and emphasizes the need to correct Open DNS resolvers [UPDATE]
A 300 Gigabit per second denial of service attack has been crowned the biggest DDoS operation to date. For over a week, European spam-blocking service Spamhaus has been subjected to a brutal Denial of Service attack that has been so large, it has threatened to slow down the entire Internet infrastructure.
High-speed UFO caught on video nearly colliding with Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
In what appears to be a truly untouched, authentic video, an American tourist captured a high-speed UFO orb near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France this week. Shot on March 26, 2013, the UFO appears on-screen to the right, travels at an unbelievable rate of speed towards the Eiffel Tower before shooting upwards and disappearing…
Bitcoin cryptographic virtual currency puzzles economists – hits record-setting $1 billion valuation
Bitcoin, the world’s first open source cryptographic currency, set a new record yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation, this sets the total worth of the currency at just over one billion dollars. Bitcoin is a digital currency that runs…
Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket engines recovered from floor of Atlantic
Two of the five Saturn V rocket engines that powered NASA’s July 19, 1969 Apollo 11 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been recovered from the Atlantic ocean floor in an expedition sponsored by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The rockets, which had a shelf life of only 165 seconds, were jettisoned into the waters…








