By Nur Bremmen Hacktivist group GhostShell has taken credit for a massive hacking operation that affected the sites of the FBI, NASA and the Federal Reserve, Interpol and the Pentagon along with a number of companies that interact with these organisations.
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By Casey Newton The company rolled out a change to its image search algorithm overnight that makes it tougher to stumble across adult pictures, whether or not you’re searching for them. Here’s how a Google representative explains the change:
If you are anything like me you have a long list of favorite survival/prepper websites that you visit everyday. Each site has its own qualities with respect to appearance, community of followers and specific techniques for trying to reach the public.
With just ten days to go before the Mayan apocalypse supposedly spells the end of the world, many believers may be looking for ways to dodge doomsday.
Soon there may be a cellphone that can see though walls and into other objects as Caltech engineers have made tiny, low-cost terahertz imager chips that could be incorporated into cellphone cameras. A secret agent is racing against time. He knows a bomb is nearby. He rounds a corner, spots a pile of suspicious boxes in the alleyway, and pulls out his cell phone.
Jack Farchy FT.com Demand for gold coins in the US has soared since the presidential election, as small investors fret about the lack of action to address America’s ballooning debt.
It is the world’s biggest haul of human fossils and the most important palaeontology site in Europe: a subterranean chamber at the bottom of a 50ft shaft in the deepest recesses of the Atapuerca cavern in northern Spain. Dozens of ancient skeletons have been unearthed.
The first issue is titled Escape from Jekyll Island, where our heroes – two musicians named Lex and Cal – use some modified music equipment with the help of an ex-mind control scientist to travel back in time (via lucid dreaming) to Jekyll Island, circa 1913. They crash a party including Alexander Graham Bell, Morgans, Rockefellers, and many other notable names.
SpaceX founder/Tony Stark movie inspiration Elon Musk made some heads turn this week, as heads are wont to do when they hear someone plans to ship 80,000 people to Mars. In a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Musk offered early ideas on how to start a colony on the Red Planet. Then, yesterday, he doubled down with a tweet.
Scientists trying to unravel the mystery of life’s origins have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study argues.
By Jim Miklaszewski and Alan Boyle The object that North Korea sent into space early Thursday appears to be “tumbling out of control” as it orbits the earth, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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What is it that has struck in Värmland? SOS, police and air rescue center has received calls from concerned Värmlandsbor after a ball of light is said to have exploded in the evening. “It lit up the sky and flew over us, then we heard an explosion”, says Jessica Berg Stöllet.
In 1999, the first in a series of movies came out suggesting that we are all parts of a computer simulation. The Matrix was the ultimate horror story of artificial intelligence gone wrong. But could it be true? Could we be living in a computer simulation? And how would we ever know?
The leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has called for the establishment of World Government and a New World Order.
Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of ‘conspiracy theory’, is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips.
NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime. Known as the “double tap,” the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders.