Contre Jour, developed by Ukrainian developer Hyrniv Mokus and published by Chillingo, garnered a lot of praise when it was first released on the iOS platform. ABC news said, “the game is so well designed that it almost feels like you’re playing a piece of art.” Now Microsoft has ported the game to HTML5 in…
RSA proposes ingenious security mechanism that would store passwords across multiple locations
The folks at RSA have proposed a new method of securing user passwords obtained from database hacks – break the password into separate pieces and store them at separate locations. If the database were compromised and the password stolen, all the hacker would have would be half of the password hash which would make it…
Vampirella returns in Vampirella Strikes! written by fan favorite Tom Sniegoski
Huge Windows 8 cumulative update rolls out prior to SP1 – promises performance improvements
Microsoft is rolling out a cumulative update today ahead of an official service pack for Windows 8. The update includes power and performance improvements as well as some driver fixes and updates to some core Windows 8 applications. It is unusual for Microsoft to roll out cumulative patches (other than service packs) but with Windows…
Curiosity Rover finds mysterious metallic object while scooping its first soil samples [UPDATE]
Curiosity Rover scooped its first soil samples yesterday and while scooping, took a picture of something that NASA cannot identify. It’s a small, silver metallic looking chip or flake of some kind. It could be something left over from the MSL descent mechanisms or some previously unknown soil anomaly.
Girl has stomach removed after drinking cocktail with liquid nitrogen in it
Liquid nitrogen boils at -196C, a characteristic that makes it pretty cool for oh, flash freezing alcoholic beverages and making cocktails give off a cloud of smoky vapor. That’s what Oscar’s Wine Bar in the United Kingdom puts in their drinks to give them that “cool” look. Until yesterday when Gaby Scanion, a teenager who…
More Geek Jokes
Keep ‘em coming. Here’s more Geek jokes. PayPal: Your funds have been frozen for 668974 days 1-800-404 : The subscriber you are trying to call does not exist 1-800-403 : Access to that subscriber was denied Error message: "Out of paper on drive D:" If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I’d antialias my graphics!…
YouPorn serves a staggering 100GB of data – per second! This is how they do it.
Porn sites are often technology leaders. They have to be. It is believed that porn is the most widely viewed content on the Internet. Just how much traffic do they serve? YouPorn, who serves free pornographic videos and is the second largest porn site on the Internet, hosts over 100TB of porn. At peak times,…
SpaceX’s first operational mission goes off (almost) without a hitch – should dock with ISS on Wednesday
SpaceX’s first operational flight to the International Space Station went off without a hitch. Around 8:50 PM EST, SpaceX announced via Twitter, “Falcon 9 rocket booster has delivered Dragon to its target orbit!”, making history as the first commercial flight to ISS after NASA’s Space Shuttle program was shut down.








