Sophia Stockton, a Olathe college student at the MidAmerica Nazarene University had a extra surprise after she made her latest purchase from Amazon….a bag of cocaine. Sophia ordered the book, called, ‘Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues’ by Gus Martin. When though she started flicking through the pages, a bag of cocaine fell out. Sophia then took … Continue reading »
Two 17 year old Canadian teenagers, Mathew Ho & Asad Muhammad, have successfully sent a Lego man into space using a weather balloon with a camera attached to it. The pair spent $400 and four Saturday planning the project that saw them send the Lego-naut up to an altitude of 80,000 feet, which although isn’t space (80,000ft is technically the … Continue reading »
Twitter, the online social networking service and microblogging giant based in San Francisco, was created in March 2006 (launched in July) by Jack Dorsey, has now gained over 300 Million users to date. Users generate over 300 Million ‘tweets’ a day in 140 characters or less, and handles over 1.6 Billion search queries each day. That’s … Continue reading »
In a move that will open up Google+ to a much vaster audience, Bradley Horowitz, who is the VP of Product Management at Google+ has just announced that G+ is finally going to allow teens to open their own Google+ accounts. Since hitting the web back in June 2011 when it was only available to those … Continue reading »
NASA has released the newest image of the Earth, in fantastic high definition, taken by the VIIRS instrument on board the most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. The satellite was re-named after the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who is recognized widely as “the father of satellite meteorology.” From the NASA site: Blue Marble … Continue reading »
Labour backbencher Tom Watson’s intern has caused a bit of a stir on Twitter today, when she used his account that was left open whilst he was in a meeting this morning. She updated his status to read, I should log out of my twitter so that my intern doesn’t twit-rape me.. To be honest, and I know that … Continue reading »
This looks great. The video is only 2:25 but the Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives a decent first brief look at what we can expect from Adobe in their upcoming versions of Photoshop and Camera RAW. I have included a few screen shots of the video as well that show some of the panels … Continue reading »
Google has just announced on their blog, another new feature that they have added to Google Maps which is their Google Crisis Response project: Public Alerts. This is a fantastic addition to the already great array of programs they offer people for free, and one I hop will benefit a lot of people. You can go to Google Public Alerts … Continue reading »
IGN are reporting, via sources close to the project, that the next generation of the Xbox may be up to six times more powerful than the current Xbox 360. fudzilla ran an article last Thursday stating that production had started on the new 32nm System on Chip (SoC), code named Oban, in late December 2011. … Continue reading »
The people of Egypt are currently raising a new obelisk in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt at the site of last year’s focal point of anti-Mubarak demonstrations. The anachronistic obelisk has the names of those killed in last years uprising. Thousands of people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square today to mark the first anniversary of the start of the … Continue reading »
