Posts Tagged with "News"

Hacker steals $50,000 a few cents at a time

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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When opening an online brokering account it is common practice for companies such as E-trade and Schwab to send a tiny payment – ranging from only a few cents to a couple of dollars – to verify that the user has access to the bank account listed. Services such as Google Checkout and Paypal use [...]

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Maps Explaining Why Americans Know Less About the World

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Speaking at the TED Conference, Alisa Miller (CEO of Public Radio International) explains why Americans know less and less about the rest of the world. Along the way, she uses some eye-popping graphs to put things in perspective.

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Rocketman flies with jet-pack strapped to his back

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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The self-built contraption took the former fighter pilot five years to build and perfect – and yesterday he gave it its maiden flight. Stepping out of an aircraft at 7,500ft, Rossy unfolded the 10ft rigid wings strapped to his back as he plummeted earthwards. Passing from freefall into a gentle glide, he triggered the four [...]

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MySpace wins $234M spam judgment

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever, The Associated Press has learned. A federal judge ruled against two of the Internet’s most prominent spam defendants, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, after the two failed to show up [...]

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CraigsList sues eBay

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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A few weeks after being sued by eBay, CraigsList is now suing the auction giant, alleging eBay had used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets. Craigslist’s complaint alleges a plan by eBay to use its position as a minority shareholder in Craigslist and its position on the Craigslist board to gather [...]

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Space Vegetables Could Solve World’s Food Crisis

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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The seeds from which these giant veggies grew were fired into space, where they orbited the Earth for two weeks. Once they returned they were cultivated in hothouses, producing the monster specimens seen here. China, which is behind the space fruit and veg, says they could be the answer to the world’s food crisis. China [...]

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RIP Murray Jarvik, co-inventor of nicotine patch

Saturday, May 10, 2008

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Dr. Murray Jarvik, a pioneer reacher of smoking addition and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, has died. He was 84. In the early 1990s, Jarvik invented a transdermal patch that delivers nicotine directly into the body to help smokers fight the urge to light up.

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Wetsuit’s inventor dies

Friday, May 9, 2008

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Surfing would still be shivering and facing a high risk for hypothermia if it weren’t for Hugh Bradner, inventor of the first wetsuit. Bradner, a renowned physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography died May 5, 2008, in San Diego after a prolonged illness. He was 92. RIP

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Never seen before pictures of Hiroshima

Friday, May 9, 2008

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These pictures were taken on the ground, from the inside of the disaster. It is far from the abstract image of the nuclear mushroom. These pictures show Hiroshima a few days after Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb, on August 6th 1945, at 8.17am. These pictures have not been revealed to the US general public [...]

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Using a skull as a bong… wew gross

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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The news just fell. Here is a copy/paste from the Associated Press. What kind of sick bastard would do this? Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor [...]

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