Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning on resurrecting Silk Road—the underground black market shut down by the FBI in October. Today the anonymous founder made good on his promise. The site—which…
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$1M Bitcoin Theft From Website, Some Say Inside Job
from bbc.co.uk: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole virtual currency from his site worth more than one million Australian dollars. The Australian man said 4,100 Bitcoins (US$1.04m, £650,000) were taken in two separate attacks. He said he would not report the theft to police as Bitcoin…
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Lady Gaga to Sing on Virgin Galactic Rocket Ride
from space.com: Lady Gaga is planning to fly to space. The famed 27-year-old pop singer is scheduled to blast off on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in early 2015, according to press reports. Gaga will reportedly sing one song during her trip into suborbital space. “She has to do a month of vocal training because of the…
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AT&T gets paid millions by the CIA to give up user data
from RT.com: The second-largest telecom country in the United States has been on the Central Intelligence Agency’s payroll to the tune of $10 million a year in exchange for voluntarily handing over troves of phone logs, the New York Times reported Thursday. Citing federal officials with knowledge of the program, The Times’ Charlie Savage wrote…
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More Asteroid Strikes Are Likely, Scientists Say
from smellslikehumanspirit.com: “When an asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, shattering windows for miles and injuring well over 1,000 people, experts said it was a rare event — of a magnitude that might occur only once every 100 to 200 years, on average. But now a team of scientists is suggesting that…
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Google’s Mystery Barges Confirmed As ‘Technology Demo Space’
from abcnews.go.com: One of Silicon Valley’s greatest mysteries has been solved… after weeks of speculation Google confirmed today that the barges spotted in Portland and San Francisco are owned by the company and will be used to demonstrate technology products. “Google Barge … A floating data center? A wild party boat? A barge housing the…
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One in five suns has habitable world
from bbc.co.uk: Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet. Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, they argue that one in five stars like the Sun hosts an Earth-sized world located in the “habitable zone”. This zone is the region around a star where…
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India launches its first mission to Mars
from redicecreations.com: India will aim today to become the first Asian nation to launch a space probe to the planet Mars. (Update: The rocket carrying the probe successfully lifted-off at 09.08 UT). The cut-price mission is due to blast off carrying an unmanned craft to orbit the Red Planet, studying its geology, climate, atmosphere and…
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‘Triple Suns’ Appear in Mongolia
from digtriad.com: Chinese residents rushed out of doors to marvel a rare astronomical illusion of “triple suns” in the sky over Chifeng, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Friday morning. The sun accompanied by two smaller twins suddenly popped up in the sky at around 09:00, and the triple appeared surrounded by an arched…
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Top Technology Trends That Will Dominate 2014
from forbes.com: Strap yourself in, it’s going to be a wild ride. In considering the changes we’ve seen in technology over the past year, I’m bracing myself for unprecedented growth when it comes to anytime, anywhere, on-demand information and entertainment. Based on the trends we’ve seen so far in 2013, I predict 2014 will see…
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If a Young Child Wanders, Technology Can Follow
from nytimes.com: Most parents have experienced that feeling of fear when a young child wanders off at the playground or disappears during a trip to the supermarket. New technology, in the form of voice watches and miniature sensing devices, is aimed at thwarting such distress by keeping track of children who are too young to…
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Hybrid Solar Eclipse Happens This Sunday
from usatoday.com: This Sunday a rare eclipse will take shape … a Hybrid solar eclipse. For the first 15 seconds of this phenomena, the moon will be perfectly aligned, dead center in front of the sun … creating a distinct, fiery ring of orange. Then the eclipse will continue to cover the entirety of the…
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FAA Allows Use of Electronic Devices Throughout Flights
from nytimes.com: Airline passengers can use electronic devices to listen to music, read and play games in “all phases of flight,” the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday, but using a cellphone to talk and text will still be banned. The changes will most likely take effect before the end of the year, the F.A.A. said,…
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Dark Matter Still Missing After 100-Day Experiment
from theregister.co.uk: The most sensitive dark matter detector ever built has failed to detect any dark matter. It’s not yet a problem for the instrument, the LUX Dark Matter Collaboration that The Register described here and here. What it might mean is, in an echo of the kind of iterative narrowing-down that characterised the hunt…
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Motorola Wants Everyone To Build Smartphones Like Legos
from readwrite.com: Google has teased us before. Rumors swirled for months that Motorola would introduce a customizable smartphone that would let consumers decide what kind of hardware — a bigger battery, choice of processor, a better camera—they wanted. The notion of a consumer-grade open hardware platform quickened the heartbeats of geeks across the globe. What…