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Elon Musk To Transform The 007 Lotus Esprit “Submarine Car”
Internet October 22, 2013
The iconic Lotus Esprit submarine car that featured in the 1977 Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, has been snatched up by no other than Tesla’s Elon Musk. News has surfaced that Musk won the auction for the car with a bid of $866,000. What is even more... Read more
First Time Rocket Engine Technique Is Used Outside NASA
Internet October 22, 2013
Students at the University of California San Diego (USCD) have tested a liquid fueled, 3D printed rocket engine using a technique that has never been used to build a rocket before anywhere in the World aside from NASA. The students have built and successfully test fired a rocket that... Read more
Samsung Starts Construction Of New R&D Center in Silicon Valley
Internet October 21, 2013
Samsung Research America (SRA), a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced groundbreaking news regarding its new 8.5 acre campus in Mountain View. The grand ceremony took place at 10:30 a.m. on October 16 at 665 Clyde Avenue. Samsung Electronics is a global leader in technology that has been... Read more
World Record 100Gbps Wireless Data Transmission Set
Internet October 20, 2013
Do you think your 802.11ac router is pretty fast? Well, I’m afraid it isn’t. In fact, it has got nothing on a new system created by the Fraunhofer Institute and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, which has recently completed a 100Gbps data transmission. That’s approximately fourteen times faster than the... Read more
Oracle has announced the release of a bumper update package for Java and has advised customers to patch the software as soon as possible “due to the threat posed by a successful attack”. The update fixes 51 different security bugs in Java. About a dozen of these bugs were... Read more
VMworld 2013: VMware Opens Hybrid Cloud In Europe
Internet October 20, 2013
VMware has brought its hybrid cloud service to Europe, with a promise to meet European legal and privacy demands whilst providing a means to ease cautious cloud customers from their private-cloud-only attitude. VMware’s vice president for hybrid cloud, Bill Fathers, told VMworld in Barcelona that the vCloud Hybrid Service, which... Read more
Yahoo To Add Email Encryption After NSA Surveillance
Internet October 20, 2013
The latest alleged leaks regarding the US intelligence agency, suggest the NSA grabbed 444,743 email address books from Yahoo in one day. The latest NSA leaks indicated Yahoo contact lists were targeted more than others and by a large margin. On a single day last year, the NSA’s... Read more
Li-Fi: WiFi From A Lightbulb
Internet October 19, 2013
The use of light bulbs for wi-fi connectivity is one step closer according to new findings from Chi Nan, an IT professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University. Nan told Xinhua News that a microchipped bulb has the ability to produce data speeds of up to 150 megabits per second (Mbps).... Read more
Facebook has been concentrating its mobile internet business. In an effort to increase the number of people connected to the internet in developing countries, Facebook has acquired several companies that can help them to achieve their goal. Most recently, the social network giant announced that they had successfully bought... Read more
Twitter Direct Messages For All
Internet October 19, 2013
The communication kings over at Twitter have increased the lines of virtual communication with a new option which allows users to receive direct messages from any user on Twitter. The feature is opt-in and appears to be in state of current roll out. Some Twitter users, but not all,... Read more
Scottish Government To Implement Major Windows 8 Tablet Rollout
Internet October 19, 2013
The Scottish government is all set to roll out a major deployment of Windows 8 tablets following a successful proof-of-concept by York-based IT integrator Trustmarque. The decision is a significant triumph for Windows 8, which was designed from conception, to work equally well on both desktops and tablets, but... Read more
Apple’s very own Jony Ive came together with his longtime friend and fellow designer, Marc Newson to create the one of a kind, Leica M Camera for charity. Although the two designers have known each other for years and are both incredibly successful designers, their preferred styles are quite... Read more
Android TV To Replace Google TV
Internet October 18, 2013
According to a recent report, the search giant is officially abandoning the Google TV brand. So, is it farewell to Google TV altogether? Well, no, actually as it is just the brand designation that is being killed off. Google-based television services will continue onward; they will now be called... Read more
University Of Buffalo Test Underwater Wi-Fi
Internet October 18, 2013
A research team from the University of Buffalo, New York have been testing an underwater wi-fi network in a lake near Buffalo. The aim is to make a deep-sea internet; an agreed standard for underwater communications so that interaction and data-sharing is easier. Sound Waves The team are not... Read more
Xunlei is a BitTorrent service primarily used in China and backed by Google. The service was recently caught spreading malware to thousands of both Windows PCs and Android devices. An investigation was undertaken by security company Eset and has revealed that Xunlei has been spreading malware named “Win32/Kankan” to... Read more
Microsoft Working On Technology To Replace Cookies
Internet October 18, 2013
Microsoft is developing a new technology to replace cookies. This work is similar to projects being undertaken by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Tracking cookies have come under scrutiny recently from regulators by many concerned about privacy. Certain types of cookies (Third party tracking cookies) are now easily blocked through... Read more
Major Torrent Sites In UK Have Domains Suspended
Internet October 17, 2013
In June of this year, the UK government announced a new unit dedicated to dealing with intellectual property cases. Dubbed the Intellectual Property Crime Unit (City of London Police) – shortened to PIPCU – is supposed to have a £2.5m fund. Launched in September, the unit has not been idle,... Read more
Recently, Twitter announced a partnership with Americas number one pay TV broadcasting company, Comcast which they hope to propel the world of Social TV. With a new ‘See It’ feature on Twitter, Twitter users will be able to view or record their favorite TV shows. See It Comcast would... Read more