On November 27, 2012, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this amazing image of a monster storm raging at Saturn’s north pole. Viewed from 361,000 kilometers away, the storm’s sinister eye looks quite similar to Earth-based hurricanes leading scientists to surmise that the ringed planet’s storms form in much the same way, with warm, moist air rising…
Wired South Korea plan to stem digital addiction – start training kids at 3-years-old
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world with an estimated 98% of the population connected with broadband Internet and 2/3 of the population owning smartphone devices. But being ultra-wired does have its drawbacks. Officials estimate that 160,000 children between the ages of 5 and 9 are addicted to the Internet.…
North Face can’t take a joke – becomes whipping boy of Internet jokesters everywhere
If you can’t take a joke, chances are you’re going to become the butt of many jokes in the future. That’s what The North Face, the popular American outdoor product company known for their high-priced outdoor products, found after multiple frivolous legal actions against persons that The North Face felt “violated” their self-described “iconic” logo.…
Researchers discover clue as to why a black hole’s mass is lighter than expected
If you have ever wondered why, against conventional logic, black holes are so “light”, researchers at Virginia Tech may be about to quench your thirst for an answer. Computer models of the early universe fall fairly close to home except for one thing – the ratio of the mass of black holes in the center…
New AMC drama, Halt and Catch Fire, will follow 1980’s personal computer boom
AMC has announced that they ordered up a pilot for a new drama, “Halt & Catch Fire”, that will follow the personal computing boom in its early days. Set in the early 1980’s, Halt & Catch Fire dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations…
Syfy considering making a Waterworld sequel as made-for TV movie or stand-alone series
Forbes is reporting that the Syfy channel is considering making a Waterworld sequel either as a made-for TV movie or as a stand-alone series. Syfy network president Dave Howe told Forbes the project has been something that is “talked about endlessly”. He noted that every time the network reairs the movie, it does very well…
Lead-proton collision at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may have yielded a new form of matter
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are reporting an unusual finding in collisions between protons and lead ions – their observations suggest that the collisions may have produced a new form of matter known as color-glass condensate. Normally when these collisions between particles occur they yield hundreds of new particles which fly away from…
Spate of hotel breakins in Texas attributed to recent Brocious hotel keycard hack
In July 2012 at a Black Hat conference, Cody Brocious demonstrated how he could hack the keycard system used in hotels by spoofing the “portable programmer” device meant to be used for designating master keys and opening Onity brand locks whose batteries had died. With his $50 homemade device, he could insert the plug of…
Can you crack the secret encrypted WWII message found attached to the leg of carrier pigeon skeleton
Top British codebreakers are admitting that the recently found World War II message, found attached to the skeleton of a carrier pigeon, may never be cracked. Historians believe the bird was dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6 1944, during the D-Day invasions. It is possible that its destination was the top secret Bletchley Park…
SpaceX founder solidifying plans to start civilian colony of 80,000 people on Mars
Not content with simply blasting civilians into the stratosphere, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, is now aiming his sights towards starting a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people. Once the infrastructure is in place, Musk intends to ferry people to Mars at a cost of $500,000 per…








