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Cargo Zeppelins To Arrive By 2016
Internet December 26, 2013
A Luxembourg-based airfreight company, Cargolux, has announced their plans to revive the ill-fated airships for more mundane purposes. The Cargolux company’s next generation of Zeppelins will be designed to be the new cargo carriers and the first fleet of 22 airships are expected to begin their operations over Europe,... Read more
Info From 40 Million Credit Cards Stolen From Target
Internet December 26, 2013
For a store that’s logo is a giant bulls-eye, Target recently found itself in the crosshairs of some credit card thieves. And, if you shopped at a physical Target location in the United States between November 27th and December 15th and used a credit or a debit card, your... Read more
Oracle Buys Responsys For $1.5bn
Internet December 25, 2013
The rumours floating around regarding the Responsys buyout have been confirmed. Oracle will buy cloud-based marketing company Responsys for $1.5bn. Oracle has finally reached an agreement to obtain the cloud marketing company, for $1.5bn (£945m), as they continue to build up their cloud services portfolio. The deal also continues a... Read more
Who doesn’t enjoy a good TV show every now and then? And, who doesn’t enjoy watching episode after episode until the season (or series) is finished? Sure, there’s other things we could do, like clean the house, mow the grass, cook dinner – but really, who wants to mess... Read more
Google Robot Wins The DARPA Competition
Internet December 25, 2013
Out of the fifteen teams that entered the DARPA robot challenge, the winner was a robot from a Google-owned start-up company. The machine from team Schaft successfully completed all eight of the rescue-themed tasks and came top of the leaderboard, with a fairly wide margin when compared to the... Read more
RSA Denies NSA Back Door
Internet December 25, 2013
Security software provider RSA has “categorically” denied that it knowingly and wilfully included a flawed formula for generating random numbers in its BSAFE product as part of a agreement to provide a “back door” for the National Security Agency (NSA) to access data sheltered by the encryption software. RSA... Read more
Cause Of Aging Reversed In Mice, Humans Next
Internet December 24, 2013
Let’s face it, none of us want to get old. Over recent years we’ve seen a real push from medical researchers, trying to reduce disease and finding ways of making us live longer. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia and Harvard Medical School have been working... Read more
It’s really hard to read about this story and not bust out laughing. It’s even harder to write about this story without laughing uncontrollably. And, sadly to say, it’s hard to feel bad for this unfortunate woman. What unfortunate woman, you ask? Let me explain. A young woman in... Read more
Wink To Take A Photo With Google Glass Update
Internet December 23, 2013
Google has announced a new feature for Google Glass allowing users to take photos by winking. The company has said that this feature is faster than a camera button or a voice command and can work even when the display is turned off. Google think that this wink feature... Read more
Carmat Implants its First Artificial Heart in A Human
Internet December 23, 2013
A “bioprosthetic” artificial heart, created by Carmat, was successfully implanted in a patient at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in France last week, marking the first effective human implant for the company. According to Carmat the patient is in the intensive care unit but is doing well and able... Read more
The Kano Build-It-Yourself Computer For Kids
Internet December 22, 2013
Kickstarter project Kano has managed to raise funding in excess of $1.5M on the crowdfunding website. The Kano is built on top of the Raspberry Pi and is a build-it-yourself computer which was launched on Kickstarter with the aim of raising $100,000 in crowd-funding to push 1,000 of its Kano kits to the... Read more
University Researchers Print 3D Speakers
Internet December 21, 2013
There have been numerous reports in the media regarding really useful and clever designs and applications for 3D printing. So it was only a matter of time before the use of 3D printing stretched into the music world. Researchers at Cornell University in New York have successfully designed and... Read more
NASA Creates Superhero Robot Named Valkyrie
Internet December 21, 2013
For the DARPA robotics challenge, NASA has decided to go all out this year. They have effectively designed and created the first robotic superhero, and even if it doesn’t win them first place in the challenge, it will hopefully save some lives one day down the road, as long... Read more
London Gets First Pure Electric Buses
Internet December 21, 2013
Transport for London has started to incorporate its first zero emissions pure electric buses. The single deck buses will run a trial period connecting Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge from Thursday 19 December, along the central 507 and 521 routes. Two buses will be trialed in December, with a... Read more
Facebook Officially Releases Video Ads
Internet December 20, 2013
Facebook has announced that it will now be placing video advertisements into the news feeds of its users. In a blog post the company said: “Marketers will be able to use this new format to tell their stories to a large number of people on Facebook in a short... Read more
In spite of the heat on torrent sites, as well as uploaders and downloaders, it seems that people are not really deterred from carrying on. Even The Pirate Bay, the world’s most resilient torrent site, continues to operate. Of course, we don’t know how much longer they can resist... Read more
Amazon has a new data streaming analytics platform, called Kinesis and it is now in public beta. The service allows developers to build real-time applications without managing the complexity of multiple clusters. But though it has been regarded as a new type of real-time app platform, it also has a few... Read more
Google Could Make Chips In The Future
Internet December 20, 2013
It seems that Google wants a finger in every technology pie. It has made its intentions clear where robots are concerned and now, according to a report from Bloomberg, the tech giant is also considering designing its own server processors. Using ARM technologgy, Google hope to better manage the... Read more