Cyber attacks against SecureWorks clients in 2008 originated mainly from within the USA, though this doesn’t mean the computers aren’t being controlled from Russia, or elsewhere:
The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from [...]
Progress on the invisibility cloak… Two teams lead by Xiang Zhang at Berkeley manufactured material that will bend waves close to the visible spectrum.
One approach used nanometre-scale stacks of silver and magnesium fluoride in a “fishnet” structure, while another made use of nanowires made of silver… Light is neither absorbed nor reflected by [...]
Toyota Motor on Friday showed off a new stand-up scooter that could one day be seen zipping alongside the Segway on the personal-transporter superhighway…
The “Winglet” has a body the size of an A3 sheet of paper that houses an electric motor, two wheels, and internal sensors that constantly monitor the rider’s position and make adjustments [...]
CNET and others cover the launch of another incredible new Rutan design for Branson – White Knight Two. This is one plane:
Scaled Composites (Rutan’s company) has revealed (pdf) the “WhiteKnightTwo” (WK2) carrier aircraft that will ferry SpaceShipTwo and thousands of private astronauts, science packages and payload on the first stage of the Virgin Galactic sub‐orbital [...]
Cuil, a new search company with all the right principals, is struggling with it’s launch.
…with 120 billion Web pages, Cuil’s search index is larger than any other… Instead of showing results as short snippets of text and images with links, it displays longer entries and uses more pictures… Cuil, which has about 30 [...]
A new British design company led by automotive icon Professor Gordon Murray who headed up the design of supercars such as the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, has announced the completion of production design for a new vehicle type, the T.25. The design rights will be licensed to a range of manufacturers around [...]
From a position of 1/3 of MySpace’s visitors and page views 15 months ago, Facebook has now overtaken the NewsCorp-owned social networking site as the largest such site. MySpace, owned by News Corp. since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the U.S. Orkut, run by Google, has a lock on Brazil and also [...]
CNET offers some initial coverage of Computex 2008 in Tapei, Taiwan. The buzz is around the ultra-mobiles enabled by Intel’s new Atom chip and competitors like Nvidia’s Tegra.
At Computex 2008 in Tapei, Taiwan, the biggest buzz is about the developing new market for Netbooks, smaller than traditional notebooks but larger than PDAs–and the revolutionary new [...]
Good interview with Sony CEO Stringer:
OLED technology, while still too expensive, is the next thing. Or the current thing, if you want to spend $2,500 for an 11-inch screen. Its contrast ratio is a million to one… a hundred times brighter than an LCD screen… A 27-inch version will be out soon… It will be [...]
In the same way that gamer machines have long led desktops, the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project is leading technology innovation on the sub-notebook segment. The first generation (one of which my son has) incorporates wifi, a video/still camera, color screen, SD card reader, AMD chip and Linux into a very nice rugged $200 [...]