I guess you can only talk smack so long before you finally attract the attention of the hacking community.
When Apple was just a niche maker of Mac computers and only truly popular among college students and graphic designers, hackers paid little attention to the company. Instead, they focused on Microsoft, which had more than a 90% share of the PC operating system market. Those days are over.
This is Sir Norman Foster’s Virgin Galactic terminal building in the New Mexico desert: like the futuristic aircraft ready to shuttle tourists to the edge of our atmosphere, it is about to move from technical drawing to reality. Angus Batey reports on the final leg of Sir Richard Branson’s most spaced-out venture yet.
The idea of letting Twitter users control a man’s life for a week is either pure genius…or the saddest cry for attention ever. You know, unless they filter requests somehow, you know this is will turn out really, really bad.
You’ll also be able to watch Perez’s every move that week on a live webcam attached to his thick-frame glasses. So you won’t have to take his word on the fact that he’s following through with the Twitter commands. You’ll be able to watch, in real time, as the internet turns him into a helpless puppet.
Google has napping pods? Sheesh, what ever happened to napping on the couch / floor / under your desk?
Willow Garage just programmed a robot to hustle you out of your money at the pool table. Still no cure for cancer.
SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years.
But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. “This is solar behaviour we haven’t seen in living memory,” says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
