A new study published in Nature suggests building powerful telescopes in Hawaii and Northern Chile might not be such a great idea.
Turns out astronomers choose Hawaii for powerful telescopes because they want to wear shorts and get a good tan.
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First life-size Gundam statue to be built outside of Japan
In Japan, there are several life-size Gundam statues. If you visit Tokyo, it’s a must-see attraction. Now we learn there will be a life-size Gundam built – in China!
Twitter shuts down massive number of accounts spreading deceptive information from Russia, China, and Turkey.
Twitter announced Thursday that it deleted more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government. The accounts were pushing narratives around the Hong Kong protests and Covid-19 that Twitter considered deceptive. Twitter is officially blocked in China. Many of the accounts had only been set up this year and were classified in two categories. 23,750…
Here are the Internet speeds ranked by country. And no, the USA is not in the top ten.
The United States typically fell within the top 10, albeit not the top position as you’d expect from the country that invented the damn thing. But that changed with the latest analysis. The US now sits in the 11th position with 25% of US households having access to speeds of up to 25 Mbps or…
No doubt about it, the US just froze Huawei out of the 5G market because they’re scared.
Have no doubt about it. America’s skirmish with China has more to do with fear than anger. America is about to lose their #1 position on the world’s stage and they know it. And China is posed to step into the pole position. What will it take to overtake the US? Technological advances. And what’s…
If you own a D-Link router, stomp it, burn it, and never buy D-Link again
Maybe other router manufacturers are as magnificently dumb as D-Link but regardless, get rid of all D-Link routers and vow to never buy another D-Link product for a long as your lungs suck in air. The security vulnerabilities present in their devices, especially the DWR-932B router, are so far beyond stupid, well, you’d swear the…
Interesting list of Chinese filtered words, banned domains, and potential username/passwords
That China filters their Internet traffic is no secret – their societal system (many believe) requires that information be filtered. What is more interesting, are the *words* that are filtered. Several research groups have studied China’s walled-off Internet infrastructure (via search engine results, reverse engineered software and hardware products, leaked router or firewall settings, etc.)…
Rare cross-platform malware targets iOS and Android devices of Hong Kong protestors
An Israeli security firm has discovered evidence of a cross-platform (iOS and Android) malware attack targeting the Operation Central (Umbrella Revolution) protestors in Hong Kong. The spyware, Xsser mRAT (or Xsser.0day), exposes information on the devices such as SMS and email messages, instant messages (e.g. Tencent Archive), GPS location data, phone call logs, contact information,…
China’s lunar rover may have just experienced a catastrophic failure – world holds breath (update)
China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover is a little over a month into its three-month lunar exploration mission. Today the Chinese State Administration of Space, Technology, and Industry for National Defense has said the rover has experience a “mechanical control abnormality” that was the result of a “complicated lunar surface environment”. In other words, it’s stuck…
China’s bizarre Nail Houses – when owners refuse to move, construction projects build around them
The Chinese call them “nail houses”, a home whose resident has refused to leave in order to make way for new construction. Rather than cease development, builders simply build around the home, often using innovative, but visually unpleasant, means to continue construction unabated. The term nail house is a pun coined by construction workers and…