Posted on December 17th, 2006 by reflex
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — A Brazilian businessman traveling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
Once police were alerted, they rushed to the house and arrested the robber as he was trying on his clothes.
The businessman, Joao Pedro Wettlauser, was [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2006 by MaxPower
The boom in cyber crime is forcing criminals to go to great lengths to recruit skilled hackers, says a report. Some criminal gangs are paying students while they study to ensure they have a pool of tech-savvy workers to call on, says the report from McAfee. Others are cashing in on the glamour of the [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jason
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Low clouds forced NASA to delay the launch of space shuttle Discovery late Thursday, and a forecast for strong winds prompted the space agency to postpone another attempt by at least two days.
NASA managers waited until the end of the countdown before deciding to call off the launch scheduled for 9:35 [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jason
Blu-ray is losing the opinion war. So says Cymfony, a company that measures market influence. Its newest report, “A Blue Christmas for Blu-ray,” claims that HD DVD has more positive buzz than Blu-ray, but not for the reasons you might imagine.
Cymfony looked at 17,664 posts from 323 blogs and discussion boards over the last two [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA managers on Wednesday cleared space shuttle Discovery for a launch attempt on Thursday, though the weather outlook was not favorable.
Two technical issues, one with the shuttle’s electrical system and the other concerning an adhesive used in the ship’s solid rocket boosters, were resolved, NASA said, [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Jason
HOUSTON - NASA announced Monday its strategy and rationale for robotic and human exploration of the moon, determining that a lunar outpost is the best approach to achieve a sustained, human presence there.
The base would be built in incremental steps, starting with four-person crews making several seven-day visits. The first mission would begin by 2020, [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Jason
As officially announced here - NASA will have a press conference at 1pm EST to discuss recent findings of the Mars Global Surveyor and other stuff.
From what I’m hearing in some fringe circles I travel and other sources, I believe tomorrow you’ll finally be hearing about what previous NASA photographs/video had described only as [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Jason
The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you’ve been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards — and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2006 by Jason
UniveRSS is a 3D RSS feed reader for Windows Vista. It leverages the Windows Presentation Foundation and provides a stunning way of visualizing RSS feeds and their content. It introduces a full-screen 3D universe where galaxies represent the folders of your RSS feed directory, and the stars are represented by the spinning cubes that hold [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Software, Technology
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by Jason
In an effort to curb use of the site by sex offenders, MySpace plans to introduce technology that would identify and block those attempting to use its social networking service.
While not common, criminals have used the site to solicit sex from underage members. Along with copyright issues, the protection of users from such activity is [...]
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