Google stands by its “don’t be evil” motto and shows other corporations how it should be done. Today Google donated $20,000 to the open-source Eclipse development platform (Eclipse is an open-source programming IDE popular with Java and Android developers). Eclipse was forced to shut down their performance testing piece of Eclipse in versions 3.8 and…
An Elite Chinese cyberattack unit has been pawning U.S. computers for three years and counting
Symantec has provided details on an attack system known as The Elderwood Project that appears to be sponsored by the Chinese military complex. The first instance of this attack vector occurred in 2009 when Google computers were comprised by a group using a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. it was determined that the group was…
Mark Cuban explains why he lost a ton of money on Facebook stock
Mark Cuban, the geeky American magnate who owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, posted an interesting explanation of mentality of stock trading. If you are a geek that trades stocks or is interested in pillaging the stock market, check out Cuban’s reason for losing a boatload of money buying Facebook stock. Facebook stock was played…
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Mars Curiosity Rover leaves tracks visible from space
Curiosity Rover has certainly left its mark on the planet Mars. Photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released showing the tire tracks left by Curiosity on the planet’s surface. The bluish color spots are where Curiosity landed (named Bradbury landing after famous science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury) blowing Mars dust away from…
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CW Network working on new Wonder Woman TV show
According to Vulture, It looks like Wonder Woman (or a slight variant of) could be returning to TV even after last year, NBC cancelled a Wonder Woman project before the pilot even aired. Following the success of Smallville, which ran on CW and told the story of Superman before he became Superman, the CW network…
Denmark TV characters sign off and go to bed each night
In Denmark, parents got sick and tired of all the time their kids spent in front of the television set. Disney Channel and Cartoon Network smothered the kids not only in humor, but in product advertisements conditioning the little ones into zombie consumers. In a desperate attempt to reign in Danish viewers, the DR Ramasjang…
New flashlight and USB charger that runs on saltwater
When a disastrous earthquake hit Japan last year, one of the biggest problems citizens experienced was a shortage of electrical power. Electric grids were knocked offline and batteries, used continuously during their ordeal, quickly ran in short supply. The Japanese subsequently sought a way to generate power using renewable resources. The result? An electric LED…
Strange star discovered that is not aging normally
Scientists have discovered a strange star that is not aging normally and seems to remain every youthful. In the picture below, the glowing cluster of stars in the center (known as the “globular cluster”) are all stars that astronomers think formed in the universe’s distant past. Astronomers can determine a star’s age by the presence…








