Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Rubik’s Cube Celebrates 40th Anniversary
from techsonia.com: A must have toy of 1980 and 1981 has turned forty now, and its birthday is being celebrated in a Jersey City exhibition at Liberty Science Center. A Rubik’s cube was developed by Erno Rubik. Any typical Rubik’s cube has attractive different colors and nine squares on six sides. It can be twisted…
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FCC Murders Net Neutrality. Don’t Get Mad – Get Even
from theguardian.co.uk: The former cable and wireless industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler is re-writing rules in favor of the telecom giants – not you, me or the internet. Here’s what you can do to stop him. In January, a federal appeals court rejected regulations designed to assure some measure of fairness in the way America’s internet…
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SpaceX Intends to Build Texas Spaceport
from houstonchronicle.com: SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Friday said his company intends to build a launchpad near Brownsville, a significant development that could signal the start of a renaissance in Texas spaceflight as manned activity at the Johnson Space Center has ebbed. At end of an unrelated press conference in Washington, Musk said his…
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Curiosity Snaps First Asteroid Photo from Red Planet
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Curiosity Mars rover captured the first-ever image from the Red Planet’s surface to show an asteroid. The bonus? The image shows two, known as Ceres – which is a dwarf planet and an asteroid – and Vesta. Ceres and Vesta…
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For Web Users, FCC Raises Specter of Unequal Internet
from bloomberg.com: Your Netflix bill might rise. You may have to switch Internet providers to get faster YouTube videos. Or, you may miss out on the next big thing on the Web. Those are some of the concerns that consumer advocates are raising about U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal this week for…
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100’s of Killer Asteroids Hurtling Toward Earth?!
from americanlivewire.com: The global network that listens for nuclear weapons detonations detected 26 asteroids exploded in Earth’s atmosphere from 2000 to 2013, data collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization shows. These explosions include the Feb. 15, 2013, impact over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which left more than 1,000 people injured by flying debris. City-killer…
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CFR claims ’Space terrorism, floating debris pose threats to US’
from RT.com: The United States is increasingly vulnerable to “space terrorism”, according to a new report, as it is more reliant on its satellites and other installations in space to conduct national security operations. Because the US depends so much on its holdings in space for a variety of operations, and as it is the…
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Nest ‘Smart Meter’ Now Available on Google Play
from mobilesyrup.com: Google’s purchase of Nest has quickly borne fruit, at least in the distribution department, as the company made the Nest Learning Thermostat available to purchase for $249 CDN on the Play Store. Google spent $3.2 billion to purchase Nest earlier this year, and though the collaboration has yet to spawn any new products,…
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DARPA’s Microrobots Working Together To Build with Metal, Glass and Electronics
from technologyreview.com: Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy’s lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants. Dark shapes about a centimeter across move to and fro over elevated walkways: they weave around obstacles and carry small sticks. A closer look makes it clear that these busy critters are in…
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SpaceX Making Easter Delivery Of Station Supplies
from npr.org: A SpaceX supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for an Easter morning delivery and urgent spacewalking repairs later in the week. Following its midday launch through cloudy skies, the Dragon cargo carrier was shown drifting away in the blackness of space, against the blue backdrop of…
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Kepler-186f: First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
from popularmechanics.com: A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone. “This…
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DARPA to Set Sea-based Electronic Ambushes for Enemies
from stratrisks.com: U.S. military researchers are moving forward with a program to hide ruggedized electronic devices at the bottom of the world’s oceans that when called on will float to the surface to jam, disrupt, and spy on enemy forces. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, this week…
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Saturn’s Newborn: Scientists Say Planet’s Ring May Give Birth to Baby Moon
from RT.com: Scientists believe a tiny satellite is emerging from the edge of Saturn’s ring system. A disturbance in the planet’s outer ring, called ‘Peggy,’ could grow into a separate icy moon – possibly the last one of its kind. Images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have earlier revealed an arc of 750 miles (1,200…
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NSA Knew About Heartbleed, Exploited It for Two Years
As predicted, the huge Internet security vulnerability was used by the NSA. We should not be surprised, but furious from salon.com: As soon as Heartbleed — the grave and widespread vulnerability which has for two years plagued Internet security — was discovered this week, skeptical and speculating eyes looked to the NSA. Some corners of…
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A look inside a ‘Cybersquat’
from bbc.co.uk: Major software innovations do not all come from big companies like Apple or Google. A surprising number of developers eschew the gleaming campuses of Silicon Valley, choosing an alternative lifestyle coding in so-called communal “cybersquats” around the world.